On the Symfony blog they've made the announcement about the latest conference in their SymfonyLive series - Symfony Live USA 2018 - happening October 9th through 12th in San Francisco.

Never been at a SymfonyLive conference before? Join us at the SymfonyLive USA: it is a 4-day event, the only one dedicated to Symfony in the USA, where you can learn all the latest news about Symfony.

[...] The Call for Papers is still open for a few days, if you have any best practices, experience, tips, use case to share with the US Symfony community, think about submitting a talk proposal for the conference.

The conference also includes workshops, not just regular sessions showing how to get up and running with Symfony, extending the framework, best practices, and mastering design patterns. You can also pick up a ticket if you'd like to attend. Early Bird pricing ends July 8th (so hurry!)

On the Symfony blog there's an announcement about the return of SymfonyLive San Francisco, coming back after the unfortunate cancelation of SymfonyLive Chicago. SymfonyLive San Francisco will be October 19th and 20th at the Crunchyroll offices.

SymfonyLive is coming back, that’s right, back to our beloved San Francisco for a whole new chapter in our conference series for 2017 and we just had to share the news with you right away!

As some of you may remember, last year’s SymfonyLive Chicago was cancelled and we were pretty disappointed. But we didn’t let it get us down and in 2017 we’re coming back even stronger and setting up shop again!

We’re going to need your help to make this conference a huge success, so please SAVE THE DATE in next year’s calendar and, write in SymfonyLive San Francisco 2017 October 19th-20th!

The actual event will span from October 17th through 20th but the first two days of that will be training sessions, not regular conference talks. The website for the event isn't up yet but more information about the event will be coming soon including the opening of their Call for Papers. Keep an eye on the Symfony blog for more details as they are released.

Thijs Feryn has posted his latest in his series of video interviews during his travels to various conferences around the world. In his latest he talks with Fabrizio Branca about Magento and what it's like living in the (San Francisco) Bay Area.

I had the pleasure of having a great conversation with Fabrizio Branca. Fabrizio was born in Italy, raised in Germany and currently lives in the Bay Area, near San Francisco. He is a well-respected member of the Magento community and has a bunch of Magento modules to his name.

It comes as no surprise that the main subject of our conversation was about Magento. [...] Fabrizio works for AOE, a German-based company that focuses on open source software. It was actually thanks to AOE that Fabrizio and his family were able to move to San Francisco. He started a team out there and has been living in the Bay Area for a number of years now. We talk about that as well.

You can watch this latest episode either through his in-page video player, directly over on YouTube or for the more audio-minded, just the recording on Soundcloud

On the Symfony blog they've announce the schedule for SymfonyLive San Francisco at their 2015 event happening October 27th through 30th at the Crunchyroll offices in downtown San Francisco.

Today, we’re super happy to unveil the conference schedule. On October 29th and 30th, meet Yitzchok Willroth, Sarah Khalil, Jordi Boggiano, Ryan Weaver, Beau Simensen, Jessica Mauheran and Fabien Potencier, to name just a few. They will talk about their Symfony experience or about real user cases of Symfony they’ve come across. Listen to Nicolas Grekas who will be presenting Migrating to Symfony 3.0, Kevin Dunglas talking about Leveraging a cloud computing infrastructure to build high performance Symfony webapps and Jonathan Johnson speaking about Building a Symfony API to support Ember.js (or anything else).

There will also be pre-conference workshops (those happen on the 27th and 28th) about Mastering Symfony Forms, Migrating to Symfony 3.0 and more. Check out the full schedule for more information on the event and summaries of each of the sessions. You can also grab some tickets if you'd like to attend.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released it's latest in its series of community member interviews. In this latest episode Cal interviews Mike Stowe, a developer evangelist at Mulesoft.

They talk some about the services that Mulesoft provides and how they're trying to branch out to various developer communities. They also talk some about another project Mike's been interested in: RAML (an API modeling language). They finish the episode with a mention of the San Francisco PHP User Group.

You can listen to this latest episode via the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 for listening at your leisure. If you enjoy the interview, be sure to subscribe to their feed.

If you're going to be in the San Francisco area this week and are looking to absorb lots of great PHP + Oracle knowledge, Chris Jones invites you to stop by OpenWorld/JavaOne/MySQL Connect happening at the Moscone Center the 22nd through the 26th.

It's the week of the huge Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne and MySQL Connect conferences in San Francisco. The week will be a blast with so many things happening. The easiest way to find sessions is to browse the Content Catalog.

He lists out several of the PHP-related sessions happening at this year's event including:

• PHP and MySQL: The Update
• Scaling PHP Applications
• Database Access Services (OCI, ODBC, Precompilers, PHP, Python)

You can find out more information about the event on the main conference site.

In a new post to his site, Phil Sturgeon has a wrapup of CICONF (the CodeIgniter conference) that just finished in San Francisco:

This year the low-to-middle budget CodeIgniter Conference was held in San Francisco in a brilliant co-working space called Citizen Space. I didn't know at the time but this space is actually a partner of New Work City, the venue for CICON2011, so it was great to "keep it in the family".

He goes on to talk about some of the speakers that were at the even and gives summaries of the sessions as they were given. Topics included Paas (PagodaBox, specifically), Chef, Varnish, RESTful APIs and productivity with the CI framework. If you weren't able to attend, you can find slides and some videos of the event posted on its Lanyrd page.

The Symfony Blog has posted about the schedule for this year's Symfony Live San Francisco being posted:

The schedule for the Symfony Live conference in San Franscico has just been published. For the first time in the US, Symfony developers will be able to take the Symfony certification exam on September 29th. You can already register.

They're also still looking for sponsors for the event if you'd like to help out. You can also go purchase a ticket if you know you'd like to attend this year's event (September 26th through 29th in San Francisco, CA).

Phil Sturgeon has posted a reminder about this year's CodeIgniter Conference San Francisco for 2012, happening August 11th and 12th at the Citizen Space.

So only two months until the return of CICONF to America! Last year was CICONF2011 NY which was a great experience. There we announced the availability of CodeIgniter on GitHub, released CodeIgniter 2.1-dev and saw over 50 pull requests get made to CodeIgniter by developers trying to win my iPad. Then we had CICONF2012 in London, and now it's off to San Francisco for more CodeIgniter nerdery.

He also mentions speakers that will be presenting at the event including Aaron Kuzemchak, Calvin Froedge and Kenny Katzguru. He'll also be speaking, giving a session (no update on what it'll be about though).

If you're interested in attending the event, you can find out more information on the conference site (and order your tickets!)