The phpDay conference organizers have officially announced the Call for Papers for this year's event (happening May 18th and 19th in Verona, Italy).

Do you want to be our next php hero? Fill out the form with your profile and talk description. Remember that the phpDay CfP will end on Feb 28th 2012. As a no profit organization we don't have a big budget but we will refund speakers accommodation, meals and we'll give them from 200 € as refund for travel expenses.

They're looking for all levels of talks for the event - beginner, intermediate and advanced in three different categories: Overview, Hands On and In Depth. The deadline is February 28th (2012), so be sure to submit your ideas (the more the better)!

Consider this your reminder - the Call for Papers for Italy's phpDay conference officially closes on January 31st, 2010! Don't forget to contribute your ideas!

The Italian phpDay Conference will be held this year on May 12th-14th, so if you are Italian or English speaker and you want have a session in an international PHP conference fill the form and send us your presentation. As a no profit organization we have not a big budget but we will refund speakers accommodation, meals and we'll give them from 200 to 300 Euro (it depends on the fund rising) as refund for travel expenses.

The event will be held May 12th through 14th in Verona at the San Marco Hotel. There's lots of different options for registration possible including the full conference pass, attendance to just the workshops, a single day pass and a pass to just the jsDay event.

On the Liip blog there's a recent post talking about an upcoming PHP-related conference happening in Corropoll, Italy - phpDay.

More than any year this May is packed with exciting web conferences all around Europe and this year's Italian phpDay conference promises to be one of them. From May 13th to 15th the Italian PHP user group (GrUSP) will host the phpDay conference in the lovely town of Corropoli on the adriatic coast.

This year's event is focusing more on quality assurance and helping developers write better code. The author Memi Beltrame will be presenting a talk on how to handle projects when they get to a larger size than the average and some strategies of how to deal with them. Other speakers include Kore Nordmann, Fabien Potencier and Felix de Vliegher.

You can find out more about the event, happening May 13th through 15th, from the phpDay website.

Francesco Fullone wrote in with some new information those near Rimini, Italy should take a look at - this year's Italian phpDay 2008

This year's Italian phpDay 2008 that my pug (GrUSP.it) organizes in Rimini is coming at the end of May. This is the 5th edition of the event, and as usual it will be free for all. The main topic on this year will be the goPHP5 initiative, so there'll be a lot of talks on php5 only frameworks, migration, and other related topics.

Francesco and his fellow user group members will be hosting the even this coming May on the 23rd and 24th in Rimini, Italy. They've posted their Call for Papers to their wiki too. They're looking for papers around their PHP5 theme - migration between PHP4->PHP5, CMF and CMSes, Cross-platform/language programming, etc. You can also sign up to be a sponsor for the event too!

Tobias Schlitt points out an upcoming Italian PHP conference being held on May 18th - phpDay.

The conference, put on by the GrUSP Italian PHP User Group, will be held at the Hotel San Marco in Verona. You can get more information on the Hotel and the area around it from their site, complete with links to directions from different locations to the hotel.

There are two tracks - Developer and Enterprise - with several speakers in each including:

• Peter Brambati: PHP and the Microsoft platform
• Francisco Trucchia: Rapid Application Development with Open Source Tools
• Federico Feroldi: PHP in Yahoo!
• Andrea Giorgini: Making an online-shop with Typo3

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In a new post, Tobias Schlitt mentions an invite he's recieved to the phpDay happening in Bari, Italy in May (the 19th-20th).

phpDay is organized by the GrUSP and is the third year it's happened. It's divided up into two different tracks - a Enterprise track for companies/business and a Developer track for the technically minded. You can get complete information on the other talks and on registration from their site