The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode - an interview with Peter Meth, one of the organizers of the True North PHP Conference.

They talk about his involvement in True North PHP (as a conference organizer) and some of the challenges they came across. They also mention the upcoming CodeConnexx conference coming in November (happening Indianapolis, Indiana).

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.

Peter Meth one of the organizers of the True North PHP Conference (happening at the beginning of November) has a new post sharing some of his experience as a (PHP) conference planner so far.

As you may or may not know I have been planning a conference called True North PHP with my friend Chris Hartjes. I wanted to blog about some of my experiences in planning the conference and reflect back on what brought me here. This blog is especially important to me since this is the first time I am organizing a conference and would appreciate all the feedback I can get. I hope to do several posts over the next month leading up to the conference.

He talks some about his own background in the programming industry and how, thanks to his renewed interest in PHP, he was able to connect with the community and start the idea of a Toronto-based conference. He mentions Confoo as a conference he enjoyed and one that pushed him forward to want something like that locally.

If you're in the Toronto area (or want to visit in early November) and you haven't checked out the True North PHP Conference yet - you definitely should. It's a great two days packed with PHP goodness and tickets are already on sale! (and here's the schedule).

The True North PHP Conference, happening November 2nd and 3rd in Toronto, Canada, has officially announced their schedule for this year's event that includes speakers from all over the world.

Sessions that will be presented at this year's conference include:

• "Your code sucks, let's fix it" (Rafael Dohms)
• "Javascript APIs and the HTML5 Umbrella" (Jake Smith)
• "Cryptography for the Average Developer" (Anthony Ferrara)
• "Practical Solr" (Radek Zajkowski)
• "Getting Acquainted with MongoDB" (Jeremy Mikola)

Tickets are on sale and you can picks yours up for $200 CAD with both days of the event included. For more information, see the conference's main page at TrueNorthPHP.com.