2003 SoCal Linux Expo -November 22
The Second Annual Southern California Linux Expo
(SCALE 2x)
Mark your calendars! The Linux Expo of Southern California, a
joint effort of USC, USCLUG, UCLALUG, and SCLUG, is proud to
announce the second annual Southern California Linux Expo,
scheduled for November 22nd, 2003 at the Los Angeles Convention
Center. The Southern California Linux Expo will again bring
together Linux and Open Source Software companies, developers, and
users.
Last year’s Expo was a tremendous success, with over 600 people
attending. SCALE 2x will expand upon the success of SCALE 1x to
promote Linux and the Open Source Software community in Southern
California.
“…this is one of the few good grass-root level technical
conferences for Linux”
Robert Love, Linux kernel developer
Watch http://www.socallinuxexpo.com
for info on SCALE 2x!
Photos and details of SCALE 1x can be found at http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/2002
PHPCon East 2003
San Francisco, CA – Last year’s successful addition to the PHP
conference circuit heads to New York City this week with an
expanded program that includes a third day of tutorials and several
new and returning PHP gurus. PHPCon East 2003, the first of two
regional, PHP-centric shows scheduled in 2003, runs April 23 to 25,
2003 at the Park Central Hotel in New York City, NY.
“PHPCon’s aim is deceptively simple,” said Bryan Richard, PHPCon
Conference Director, “bring people together and discuss PHP. We
have a very PHP-savvy audience who lets us know immediately if
something isn’t up to spec. There’s a lot of energy and excitement
in this community and we work very hard to make sure PHPCon’s
program hosts outstanding sessions and encourages active
participation from attendees.”
Now in its sophomore year, PHPCon continues to be a
tightly-focused, community driven event that attracts PHP
professionals from all over the world as well as the top companies
in PHP development including Zend Technologies, Sams Publishing,
ActiveState, Macromedia, and MySQL.com. PHPCon’s increasing
popularity as a community event makes it a natural partner with
several of the top online discussion and networking sites such as
PHP.net, O’Reilly & Associates, and web-zine php|architect.
PHPCon has also become the stage for community changing
announcements. Yahoo’s Michael Radwin announced at last year’s
PHPCon 2002 that Yahoo was switching to PHP as the scripting
language of choice for its back-end programming. Yahoo’s
announcement, a huge boost for open source programming, is yet
another indication of the language’s flexibility and strength in
producing interactive web pages. PHP, an open source scripting
language for the web, has been steadily gaining a foothold in
commercial usage. According to PHP.net, PHP scripts can be found in
over one million IP addresses and over 9 million domain names.
After sponsoring PHPCon 2002 last year, Sams Publishing chose this
year’s PHPCon East 2003 to launch its new Developer’s Library
series of books.
“When we were looking for a high-profile event where we could
announce and publicize Developer’s Library,” said Mark Taber,
associate publisher with Sams Publishing, “PHPCon was an obvious
choice. All the key PHP players are there as presenters, and the
attendees are the key opinion-leaders for our target market of
open-source programmers.”
PHPCon East’s program boasts an impressive array of experts
including PHP Inventor Rasmus Lerdorf, Zend Technologies Co-Founder
Zeev Suraski, OmniTi’s George Schlossnagle, MySQL.com’s Zak Greant,
and popular PHP authors Sterling Hughes, Christian Wenz, Luke
Welling and Laura Thomson.
“The speakers and sessions precisely targeted my interests in
making my own PHP projects work better and more efficiently,
potentially for a much larger scale of users. The heavy-hitting
personalities in the program such as (Dirk) Elmendorf, (Rasmus)
Lerdorf, and (Shane) Caraveo were attractions in their own rights,”
said PHPCon 2002 attendee George Web, Web Programmer for The
Vermont Teddy Bear Company in New England. “I am the only person in
my company who has any experience with Open Source and
non-commercial software such as PHP, so it is a job in and of
itself for me to introduce the concept of PHP to my
associates.”
The decision to offer two regional shows and take the first PHPCon
of 2003 to the East Coast also reflects the PHP community’s wishes.
Nearly half the event’s registrants hail from local counties while
other registrants commute from other US States, Europe, and Latin
America. With both 2003 shows offering strong technical programs
and notable speakers, aficionados with budget and travel
restrictions have more opportunities to attend PHPCon. PHPCon West
2003 is scheduled for late October in the San Francisco Bay
Area.
“Seeing as many people, as we have, turn out for a US conference in
this down economy says that the PHP community has the drive and
desire to support both PHPCon and PHP’s growth. Having an event
like PHPCon, which helps focus the PHP community, will only serve
to strengthen PHP,” said Richard. “We are able to create an event
that’s comfortable and fosters learning. We’re going to be around
for a while.”
More information about PHPCon East 2003 can be found on the
conference web site: http://www.php-con.com. Session abstracts and
speaker biographies are also available on the web site.