On the Symfony blog they have a new post announcing the upcoming SymfonyLive Paris event and that there are still Early Bird tickets available. As the event is in Paris the post is in French (but Google Translate easily fixes that).

The SymfonyTour 2018 makes another stop in the city of light with the SymfonyLive Paris 2018 conference ! The key event of the French-speaking community Symfony will celebrate its 10th edition on March 29 and 30, 2018 at the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris.

Come share and interact with other members of the community and attend talks to let you discover the latest developments in the framework and improve the development of your web projects!

There will be two days of pre-conference training available (the 27th and 28th) at the SensioLabs offices. You can purchase tickets either for the Training+Conference or just for the Conference. The Early Bird rate will only last until January 14th and if you're interested in presenting the Call for Papers is open until January 21st.

The Symfony project has joined the ranks of several other groups in the PHP community and has created their own elePHPant, a Symfony branded version of the plush toy modeled after PHP's elephant mascot.

Conference after conference, we get endless requests from people longing to have their very own ElePHPant. And so, to mark the momentous occasion of Symfony’s 10th birthday we decided to take some serious action. You’ve seen personalised ElePHPants before, but you’ve never seen special edition Symfony ElePHPants!

[...] After having failed to rescue the ElePHPants from Customs, our manufacturers, already extremely busy with their Christmas orders, found a little window to resend us some precious mascots. Although much smaller in numbers than originally planned, we are happy to announce that the Symfony ElePHPants have finally touched down in Paris and are ready in time to celebrate 10 years at SymfonyCon Paris 2015!

You can get your hands on one at the [SymfonyCon Paris 2015 conference] happening next month but that's the only place so far. They're not being sold online (yet) and are available on a first-come, first-served basis at the conference for 20 Euro. If you've been planning to attend the conference, be sure to register now and get in on some great talks (and maybe an elePHPant while you're there).

The Symfony blog has announced the pre-conference workshops that will be happening at this year's SymfonyCon Paris happening December. These workshops will run December 1st and 2nd with the main conference following from the 3rd through 5th.

Symfony3 is arriving soon, so we want you to be trained on the latest version of Symfony, get more skills and learn new tips and tricks with the framework. The good news is that we have finally got the entire workshop schedule!

Pre-conference workshops at SymfonyCon Paris 2015 will be organized on December 1st and 2nd. This year, we’re pleased to offer 8 different workshop combos which give you 8 different possibilities of Symfony training before the conference. Each workshop is composed of 2 days of workshops, if you register for a workshop, you register for 2 days according to the topics you’ve selected. You can be trained on 6 different topics, some of which are brand new topic workshops organized exclusively for SymfonyCon Paris 2015.

Topics covered in this year's workshops include Symfony forms, Symfony 3's new features, Doctrine 2, REST and plenty more. If you're interested in the sessions and the speakers check out the workshops page on the SymfonyCon Paris 2015 site (and maybe pick up your tickets while you're there).

On the Symfony blog today they've announced the opening of the Call for Papers for SymfonyLive London, SymfonyLive Berlin and SymfonyLive Paris (happening in September, October and December respectively).

The Call for Papers for SymfonyLive London, SymfonyLive Berlin and SymfonyCon Paris are currently all open! If you ever wanted to speak at a Symfony conference, you have now 3 chances to make your dream comes true.

The post includes details about each of the conferences including the dates, an overview of the event, the speaker package and - of course - a link to the respective Call for Papers. There's also a few helpful tips for speakers wanting to increase their chances of being selected (such as submitting more than one talk or submitting on unique subjects).

The Symfony blog has officially announced SymfonyCon Paris including its dates - December 3rd through 5th.

We’re so thrilled and excited to announce SymfonyCon Paris! We’ve just confirmed the official dates, SymfonyCon Paris 2015 will be December 3-5 in a famous Parisian theater: Les Folies Bergère!

To celebrate Symfony’s 10th birthday it was logical to come back to Symfony’s hometown. As you were (almost) all asking for it, there was nothing more to convince us to do it in Paris. But Paris, is a very big city, with a lot of venues and this year is so special… To celebrate Symfony’s birthday, we picked up a magical venue… Welcome to les Folies Bergère! It’s downtown Paris and very easy to access wherever you are in Paris.

You can pick up Early Bird tickets right now from the conference site. If you're of the speaking sort, you could also submit to the Call for Paper that's open until June 30th. There will be workshops happening before the conference and the 5th will be a "hackday" for those wanting to gather with fellow Symfony developers and work out some code.

Zend has officially announced that they will be presenting a "sister" conference to the one they already hold each year in California, this time in Europe - ZendCon Europe.

ZendCon PHP 2013 will be the place where European PHP professionals gather this fall. [...] Attend Europe's largest conference focusing on Enterprise PHP solutions, Frameworks, PHP Training and all things PHP. Meet the legends who created PHP and are partly responsible for what the WWW looks like today. Whether you wish to find a job, take PHP training, find a services company to help you, or just meet the greatest developer ecosystem ever -You are in the right place!

The event will be held in Paris, France on November 18th through the 20th at the Marriott Rive Gauche. Following the same pattern as the US version of the conference, the first day will be tutorials with regular sessions the following days. It's still pretty early on so there's no details about the Call for Papers or anything yet, but you can sign up for more information on the current conference site.

As mentioned in this post to the Symfony blog, they've posted the full schedule for the Symfony Live Paris 2013 event. This year's event includes sessions like:

• The PHP Content Repository PHPCR (David Buchmann)
• Git Flow: an Agile Development Process (Xavier Hausherr)
• Understanding the heart of Component Security (Rouff Joseph)
• How to organize your templates twig? (Gregory Pineau)
• Integrate forms and validation in your PHP applications (Hugo Hamon)

You can still get your tickets for thus year's event too- they're the "last minute" tickets and will cost about 300 Euro, but there's still some left!

Simon Holywell has a new post to his site about a project that aims to be a minimalist ORM library and make it easier to built queries on the fly for your applications (and is installable via Composer) - the Idorm + Paris combination.

Idiorm is a PHP ORM that eschews complexity and deliberately remains lightweight with support for PHP5.2+. [...] However, having said this, Idiorm is very powerful and it makes most of the queries PHP applications require pain free. Some of these features include fluent query building, multiple connection support and result sets for easy record manipulation. Paris sits on top of Idiorm to provide a simplified active record implementation based upon the same minimalist philosophy.

He includes examples in the post of both queries with Idiorm - simple things like creating and finding records - and using Paris to make models out of PHP objects. He also talks some about the current state of the project, recent advancements and some of the things they're looking to do with it in the future (including dropping PHP 5.2 support and use late static binding).

On the Symfony blog Fabien Potencier has posted a quick note about the Symfony Live Paris 2012 session videos being available online for free.

During SymfonyLive Paris 2012, we recorded all the sessions that were delivered in the two main rooms. That's a total of more than 15 hours of Symfony and PHP goodness. We promised a free access to all attendees, but we have decided to provide all the videos for free and for everyone. So, if you were not able to join us in Paris, this is a unique opportunity to watch all the great sessions we had.

Sessions presented at this year's event included:

• Realtime Web Apps with WebSockets
• Using MongoDB responsibly
• Advanced Service Container Utilization
• Advanced Silex
• Decoupling Content Management with Create and PHPCR
• ORMs don't kill your database, developers do!

In this new post to the Symfony blog Fabien Potencier talks about the schedule for this year's Symfony Live event happening in Paris (June 6th-9th).

With more than 130 talk submissions, we had a hard time putting together what we think is a great schedule for Symfony Live Paris 2012. This year, we will have three parallel tracks with many great talks and great speakers. We will have many Symfony talks based on real-life experience: learn new tricks about Security and Assetic from Kris Wallsmith, and let Richard Miller teach you tips on how to use the Service Container.

Sessions at this year's event include:

• Designing HTTP Interfaces and RESTful Web (David Zuelke)
• Behat by example (Behat best practices) (Konstantin Kudryashov)
• Security: In Real Life (Kris Wallsmith)
• How we built the new responsive BBC News site (John Cleveley)
• There is a Bundle for that (Christophe Coevoet)
• Advanced Silex (Igor Wiedler)

If you want to attend this year's event, you can find more information here.