The PEAR blog has a quick note about this year's elections - specifically that they have been extended due to some communication issues.

As every year, the elections for the PEAR Group and PEAR President are happening. This year due to a few factors and messages lost in translation, we decided to extend the elections period by 10 days so more people would have time to vote! So remember to cast your vote at http://pear.php.net/election/ and you have until the the 5th of August 2009.

There's both group elections and an an election for president that all PEAR developers can vote on. Hurry! The deadline is Wednesday, August 15th!

The PEAR blog has posted the offical results of this year's elections:

Elections are now over and a new PEAR Group has been formed. Just like last year and always following the Constitution, the new members have been elected by a secret ballot of PEAR Developers.

Those elected include Joshua Eichorn, Christian Weiske, Chuck Bugress and Travis Swicegood. This year's President id David Coallier. You can find out more on the PEAR website page for the elections.

David Coallier has posted both a congratulations and thank you about the PEAR group elections. Congrats to those who were voted in including Joshua Eichorn, Christian Weiske and Travis Swicegood and his many thanks for being voted in as President:

My place as I consider it and as Greg mentioned on the mailing list yesterday is much more "ambassadorial" than "presidential" and being the PEAR ambassador around the world, I'll be glad to discuss, argue, improve the general idea of PEAR to anyone. I'll also be happy to discuss PEAR2 if anyone is interested but first and foremost I'll be happy to help our new PEAR Group (which I am pretty sure won't need help ) and the community.

You can find out more about the results of this year's elections on the PEAR election pages from pear.php.net.

It's that time of year again - time to gather the votes for this year's PEAR elections for the role of President and others to be inducted into the group.

As every year it is the time of the election for the PEAR Group and PEAR President for the year 2008 and 2009. If you haven't casted your vote just yet, NOW is the perfect time to do it so go to the election page and place your vote.

You can find out more about the elections from the page for the Presidental election and for the Group elections. You must be a PEAR developer in order to vote.

As mentioned in This post on the PHP Magazine site, Bill Ackermann has been added to the Zend team as the new Vice President of Sales.

Always good to have bit of new, energetic blood in an organization, especially when it comes to working in Sales.

As mentioned in This post on the PHP Magazine site, Bill Ackermann has been added to the Zend team as the new Vice President of Sales.

Always good to have bit of new, energetic blood in an organization, especially when it comes to working in Sales.

According to this press release (as linked to by php|architect) notes the resignation of Doron Gerstel as President and CEO of Zend to move to Syneron Medical.

According to this press release (as linked to by php|architect) notes the resignation of Doron Gerstel as President and CEO of Zend to move to Syneron Medical.