Pierre has put a call out for PHP developers who would like to participate in a TestFest event to be held in Munich (and southern Germany).

Johannes and I are trying to organize one or more TestFest days. No PHP internal knowledge is required (like C knowledges), all you need is willing to help to improve PHP and a good mood.

If you'd like to participate, contact either Pierre (pierre at php dot net) or Johannes (johannes on php dot net) and they'll get in touch. If you're wondering what the TestFest is all about, checj out this page off the main PHP.net site for more information.

The ThinkPHP blog mentions a German security conference happening in October in Munich - the PHP Security Camp.

As more and more business critical applications are "web made", there's more and more potential for security flaws inside your application. In order to avoid sensitive data to be stolen from blackhats, you need to know the most important techniques how to avoid some of the critical issues. For this reason, PHP Magazin and Entwickler Akademie present a German speaking "PHP Security Camp" with four of the top notch PHP/Web security specialists (Stefan Esser, Christian Horchert from SektionEins, Sebastian Wolfgarten from the European Central Bank, Arne Blankerts from NonFood Agenturgruppe) for four days

The three day event is German-only (but they could consider an English-speaking translator if there's a need) and will have talks on topics like best practices, common security problems and includes a four hour workshop. You can get more information from the event's website.

On his blog today, Pierre-Alain Joye has posted about a TestFest call being made in the Munich area for participants wanting to help improve the PHP language.

Yet another PHP TestFest call, this time for the Munich area (and even for all Southern Germany). Johannes and I are trying to organize one or more TestFest days. No PHP internal knowledge is required (like C knowledges), all you need is willing to help to improve PHP and a good mood

You can find out more information on what the TestFest is on its page on the qa.php.net website and, if you're not in the southern Germany area and still want to participate, check out the list of other events organized all around the world - there might be one near you.

On his blog, Johannes Schluter has posted about the participation that the Munich area will have in the upcoming TestFest:

The PHP TestFest was mentioned on Planet PHP multiple times before, so let's make it one more: Pierre and me are currently working on organizing a TestFest event at Munich. So we are looking for feedback from folks somewhere in the Munich area (or even all of southern Germany) so we know how many people to expect and then set a date.

You can get the latest about the TestFest from its page on PHP's QA site and the wiki page for all of the details (including groups that might be in your area participating).

Sebastian Bergmann has a quick note on his blog about a talk he's giving at a user group meeting in Munich.

I will visit the PHP Usergroup Munich on February, 22 2006 and give a presentation on PHPUnit. The event takes place in the Munich office of their site...