On the Cloudways blog there's a new post sharing some of the things you can expect from the Laracon Online conference happening February 7th. As its name implies, Laracon Online is a one-day, single track conference happening completely online.

The entire Laravel community is pretty excited about the upcoming Laravel Event of the Year – Laracon Online 2018. The webinar will be streamed online on 7th Feb 2018. It is expected that the entire who’s who of the Laravel community will attend the event.

Laracon Online is perhaps the most important event where more than eight renowned speakers and over 6000+ attendees from around the globe. The conference addresses multiple areas of interest but the focus remains on in-depth technical talks given by Laravel experts.

The article spends some time giving a little background about the conference and the Slack instance that will be used for attendee communication. Speakers at this year's event include well-known names in the Laravel community like Matt Stauffer, Adam Wathan and Taylor Otwell. The article also includes several tweets from both speakers and the Laravel community, excited about the upcoming event. If you're interested in attending you can find out more about the conference and pick up a ticket from the main Laracon Online conference website.

On the Laravel News site they've posted a reminder about the Early Bird registration deadline for the 2018 edition of the Laracon Online conference.

As the year comes to a close, remember that for the next 23 days, you can still buy tickets to Laracon Online 2018 for $12 (regularly $25). Tickets will go up to $25 on January 3rd, which is still a great deal for the all-star speaker lineup planned. Grab tickets today before the busy rush of the holiday and new year.

Tickets are only $12 USD at the Early Bird pricing and the conference will be happening February 7th, 2018 beginning at 10am. Speakers include several of the Laravel regulars like Adam Wathan, Chris Fado, Matt Stauffer and, of course, Taylor Otwell. You can find out more information about the conference and pick up tickets of your own at the Early Bird price (while it lasts) on the Laracon Online website.

The organizers of the Laracon conferences have just announced the latest addition to the conference family - Laracon Australia happening in 2018. In the post Paul Redmond talks with Michael Dyrynda about the conference.

On the Laravel News Podcast #50, Michael Dyrynda announced Laracon’s first trip “down under” in October 2018. The venue will be right in the heart of Sydney, Australia.

Michael answers questions about the venue they're thinking about using, potential speakers, how long it will be and the role that sponsorships will play. You can find out more about the event on the main conference site and follow them on Twitter for the latest updates as they're announced.

The latest episode of the Laravel News podcast, hosted by Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda, has posted their latest episode: Episode 43.

Jake and Michael return after a few weeks' hiatus to recap Laracon US 2017, the big reveal of Laravel Horizon, and catch up on the latest framework news.

You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.

The post also includes links to several of the topics and software mentioned in the episode. If you enjoy the show be sure to subscribe to their feed to get notifications when the latest episodes are released.

The Laravel News Podcast has released their latest show - Episode #39 - with special guest Jack McDade joining hosts Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda.

In Laracon Sessions Episode Three, Jake and Michael are joined by Jack McDade to discuss his surely-80s themed talk, as well as your regular dose of Laravel framework and community news.

You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.

Jacob, Michael and Jack cover a wide range of topics including:

• Statamic
• The article about Becoming a Superlearner
• The release of Laravel 5.4.24 and the changes that came with it
• Zttp

You can listen to this latest show through the in-page audio player. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and get updates when new shows are released.

The Laravel News site has posted a recap of the Laravel Online conference that happened back on March 8th (2017).

The first Laracon Online conference just wrapped up and based on feedback many loved the event. I want to personally thank the Laravel community for helping make this a reality.

[...] We had developers from all over the world hanging out in Slack, watching the live stream, and socializing. It got a little crazy at times but everyone behaved, and it was fun watching the room scroll so fast that even the world champion speed reader would have trouble keeping up.

The post includes feedback from the attendees of the conference, a brief summary of each of the talks presented and a list of sponsors and other resources to get more detail on the event.

On the Tighten blog there's an interview posted with some of the speakers from the recent Laracon Online conference that included Jeffrey Way, Evan You, Jason McCreary and Taylor Otwell.

Wednesday was the inaugural Laracon Online, an online conference devoted to bringing great Laravel teaching to folks who may not be able to attend an in-person conference. Tighten co-founder Matt Stauffer spoke on Laravel's service container, along with Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel; Jeffrey Way, creator of Laracasts; Adam Wathan, Tighten alum; and several more excellent speakers.

During the session, conference attendees asked questions for the speakers to answer after their talks were over. However, the Slack channel was a fast-paced mix of conversations and Q&A, so we wanted to aggregate the Q&A sessions that did happen together in a single place.

The interview consolidates the questions asked of each of the eight speakers including in some cases links to the resources mentioned.

The Laravel News site has posted a new announcement today with a reminder that today (Feb 22nd) is the last day to get Laracon Online Early Bird tickets for just $10 USD. After this they'll go up to their normal price.

Today is the last chance for you to join over 3,000 developers and get an early bird ticket to Laracon Online for just $10. Each ticket purchase includes access to the live event video, conference swag, and a special Slack channel for hanging out and mingling during the event. With your ticket, you can sit on your couch and watch it all live!

Laracon Online will be held on March 8th, 2017 with opening remarks at 8:45 AM EST. If you can’t attend that day, all the talks will be recorded and available online for viewing at your convenience shortly after the conference ends.

The post also lists out some of the "conference swag" that will be provided to attendees including a discount on Linode services, a Blackfire.io discount and others that require a bit of action on your part but offer large discounts as a result. You can find out more about the event on the main conference website.

The Laravel News site has a new announcement posted about a new online-only conference for the Laravel (and general PHP) community: Laracon Online.

Laracon Online is a brand new one-day conference that will be held entirely online. This means no matter where you live you can now take part in Laracon. No hotels, no airfare, just signup and spend the day watching some of the best speakers right from your computer.

The speaker list includes Taylor Otwell, Jeffrey Way, Matt Stauffer, Adam Wathan, Evan You, Rachel Andrew, Nick Canzoneri, and Jason McCreary. Covering everything from new Laravel features to Vue.js, CSS, and more.

The event is happening on March 8th starting at 9am EST and will run all day until around 6pm EST. The schedule hasn't been posted yet (other than the session times) but Early Bird registration is open and tickets are available for only $10 USD. If you can't attend, all sessions will be recorded and will be available post-conference. For more information, check out the conference website.

On the Laravel News site there's an announcement posted about a change in the Laravel release schedule, an update from the original 2013 announcement.

Yesterday, Taylor announced on Twitter that this is going to be changing to a January and July cycle, pushing each release out a month from its current schedule.

This has two primary advantages for the development team and the first is it allows more time for testing after Symfony’s release. The second advantage is it’ll better coincide with Laracon, the yearly Laravel conference.

This means a bit of a delay on the release of the next major version of the framework (v5.4) but only by one month. The six month cycle will then resume after that slight delay. You can find out more about the remainder of the release cycle in the original post based on Taylor's comments at Laracon 2013.