Fwd: [freegeek-coders] Meet the Creator of PHP (and much of the core team)

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From: Sam Keen <[email protected]>
Date: Jul 26, 2005 10:33 AM
Subject: [freegeek-coders] Meet the Creator of PHP (and much of the core 
team)
To: [email protected]

With OSCON in town next week, pdxphp has managed to snag the entire
PHP contingent (including the creator of PHP) to speak at our Tuesday,
Aug 2nd meeting. Some of the MySQL camp (including Monty) should be
there also.

Here's the latest invite of speakers as per Rasmus...
>Yup, everyone from this list:
>http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/38/track_php.html
>Plus the 5 PHP tutorial speakers:
>http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/38/tutorial_php.html
>I can probably drag
>Monty or David from MySQL along as well.

Quite an incredible list of speakers. Don't miss this rare
opportunity to meet and converse with such an acclaimed panel of
PHP/MySQL creators/developers.
Free, open to public (pizza included).

The Date: Tuesday, Aug 2nd.
The Time: Doors open at 5pm, (mingle, eat pizza), talks start 5:30 and
go to about 8pm. (then off to pub)
The Location: PSU 4th Ave Building, Room 10, 1900 SW 4th ave
See pdxphp.org <http://pdxphp.org> for details and map
We have a large space so get the word out to as many Web/PHP
developers as you can.

Some of the speakers...

Rasmus Lerdorf "Known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground
in 1995. Rasmus works on PECL extensions, PHP core development and the
Zend Engine, and is a member of PHP Group. He also writes PHP
documentation and helps out with the PHP website."
[http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=rasmus]

Wez Furlong "Works on PECL extensions, PHP core development and the
Zend Engine, and is a member of PEAR Group. He also writes PHP
documentation, helps out with the PECL website, and does some systems
administration."
[http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=wez]

Zak Greant "Technical evangelist, author and programmer who provides
occasional fixes for mysqli"
[http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=zak]

Andi Gutmans "Works on the PHP core and the Zend Engine, and is a
member of PHP Group. He also helps out with the QA website"
[http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=andi]

Joyce Park "Renowned php/mysql author and speaker"
[http://troutgirl.com/blog/]

George Schlossnagle "Works across all PHP source, from PEAR to the
Zend Engine." [http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=gschlossnagle]
David Sklar "Lead developer for Stream_SHM, a PEAR project"
[http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=sklar]

Adam Trachtenberg "Manager of Technical Evangelism at eBay. My main
PEAR project is Services_Ebay, the author of 'PHP Cookbook' and
'Upgrading to PHP 5'."
[http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=amt]

Andrei Zmievski "Works on PEAR classes, PHP-GTK, the PHP core and the
Zend Engine, and is a member of PHP group. He also writes PHP-GTK
documentation."
[http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=andrei]

pdxphp.org <http://pdxphp.org>
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