The Cloudways.com blog has posted their latest interview with a member of the PHP community. In this new interview they talk with Stefan Koopmanschap about some of his background in development and thoughts about the community and language.

Stefan is the co-founder of PHPBenelux and speaker of many PHP conference around the world. He has a vast experience of development. He was the community manager of Symfony framework. Stefan is the Zend Certified and have also contributed in Zend Framework. He is the co-founder and trainer at Tech Academy and the podcast host at Dutch Web Alliance.

In his interview with Cloudways Stefan talks about his career start, share his experience as a speaker. What he contributed in Zend Framework. Comparing NodeJS with PHP 7 and Zend with Symfony. Giving advice to students and telling us which people to follow in PHP community.

In the interview Stefan answers questions about:

• How he started out his career as a developer and mentors that helped
• Speaking at conferences and where he got his start
• Thoughts comparing Zend Framework and Symfony
• His avid use of GitHub
• Recommendations of people to follow in the community
• Advice to beginners just starting in the language

They also mention Stefan's other passion - DJing for On Air Radio - and how he got started there. You can read the answers to these and other questions in the full interview.

For those that couldn't attend this year's WeCamp conference but wanted to get an idea of what it was like, I'd suggest checking out Stefan Koopmanschap's five part series if his experiences there. This year he participated as a coach rather than just an attendee so his perspective changed a bit.

He's posted summaries from each day of the event, chronicling their journey from a group of unknowns to a cohesive team with a finished project by the end of the event:

• WeCamp Day 1
• WeCamp Day 2
• WeCamp Day 3
• WeCamp Day 4
• WeCamp Day 5

The WeCamp "conference" is more of a large hackathon where teams are camping on an island for the duration. They form random teams the first day and come up with a product idea to take to fruition over the course of a few days. If you're interested in the event and want to learn more about future plans, be sure to check out the main conference site.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode in their series of interviews with members of the PHP community. In this latest episode host Cal Evans talks with Stefan Koopmanschap.

They talk some about Stefan's work in the Symfony community and a current project he's refactoring to use it. They also talk about an event he recently helped organize, Wecamp, a conference held on an island where the attendees worked on a full project in a week. They also talk some about the most recent user group Stefan has been bootstrapping, the Frysian PHP User Group.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3. If you enjoy the interview be sure to subscribe to their feed.

In this new post to the phpDay blog, there's an interview with Stefan Koopmanschap, a speaker at this year's event.

This is the second ‘social’ interview in a series with the phpDay 2012 speakers: it’s ‘social’ because the questions have been submitted and voted online on Facebook. We are happy to introduce you Stefan Koopmanschap (@skoop), co-founder of PHPBenelux, now active in the PFZ.nl events team , symfony community manager. He will give a session at phpDay called “A Practical Look At Symfony2” Saturday May 19th at 12 am on track 1.

They talk about Stefan's framework choice process, his thoughts on functional programming, what he thinks of traits in PHP 5.4 and what Open Source projects he's following the closest.

You can find out more about Stefan's session and the conference at http://2012.phpday.it.

On 7php.com there's a new interview with Stefan Koopmanschap, the Symfony Community Manager (and well-known PHP speaker and member of the PHPBenelux user group) answering some questions about himself, Symfony and the PHP community.

In this edition, I talked with Stefan Koopmanschap (@skoop) the co-founder of the Dutch PHP usergroup PFZ.nl which is merged with the PHPBelgium usergroup to form the PHPBenelux usergroup. He is also an official Sensio training partner for Benelux and Germany. [...] Koopmanschap is much involved in the OpenSource world and is a very highly respected member in the PHP Community; he advocates sensible thoughts and never fails to make his point stand out in the best way he can. You can read more about him on his personal blog – LeftOnTheWeb.

Stefan answers a few questions about himself and his experience with PHP:

• A bit of background on who he is and when he got started with PHP
• How he got started with the language
• His opinion of PHP now versus when he first started
• some of the good and bad things about PHP

You can read interviews with other PHP community members here.

Stefan Koopmanschap has a quick new post to his blog today talking about a webinar he and Zend will be putting on this Thursday (Feb 15th) about why documentation should be an important part of your development practices.

This thursday, February 15th, I'm doing the presentation as a webinar in the Zend Webinar series. At 9AM PST (or 5PM GMT, 6PM CET) I'll be explaining why documentation is important, and what types of documentation you can use for your project. The webinar should last for about an hour (unless there's many questions), and should be interesting for most developers. I know, the topic doesn't sound really sexy to most developers but it is really important.

You can register for the webinar here or you can check out some of the past webinars that've been recorded on topics ranging from the Zend Framework to unit testing and benchmarking.