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So we’ve set the date, we’ve published the schedule, people are buying tickets and booking transport and accommodation … what else is there to do? Well – what else do you want to see?

This year PHPNW09 has an extended conference, with space on Sunday morning booked at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, which is an excellent day out in itself and is free entry. We’re putting out a call for suggestions on what should happen that day – so if there’s anything you want to do or learn, its time to make yourself heard.

Whether there’s a topic missing from the schedule, a talk you’d like to give yourself, or a workshop or round-table discussion you’d like to run, we want to hear about your ideas. We have 4 hours available so short and long sessions are all quite possible (an hour of lightning talks, anyone??).

Come on, tell us what you want!

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• email talks@phpnw.org.uk
• log in to irc.freenode.net, join #phpnw and tell us what you want to hear

See you in Manchester 🙂

Its been a busy week but the schedule for the main portion of the PHP North West conference in 2009 is complete! Without further ado – take a look!

We were overwhelmed with submissions, which would have been fine if they hadn’t all been SO GOOD. So – we’d like to extend very warm thanks to all those who contributed to the call for papers and who made the job of choosing what to include quite as difficult as it was. With 44 submissions for a schedule containing (after some stretching) 12 slots, inevitably there would be sessions that were easily good enough but just wouldn’t fit into the time available. The resulting line up is varied in topic, in speaker, and includes both the well-known and the not-yet-well-known, there’s some great content there.

If you haven’t signed up already, you can get your tickets (50 GBP + VAT for early bird) and join us!

There’s a page about accommodation on the PHPNW09 conference site to help out all those planning their weekends in Manchester in October – hope to see you there 🙂

While the call for papers is still on (add your submissions here), we’ve confirmed an invited keynote speaker for the PHPNW Conference. He is Kevlin Henney – author, speaker, consultant and trainer in all things software development related. Kevlin will kick off our day with his talk The Uncertainty Principle, and tell us why there are times when its good to be uncertain. Sounds like a great start to the day!

If you’re getting impatient waiting for the conference to come round on the 10th of October, then why not check out last years conference site or you can check out videos of most of the sessions from PHPNW08.

You can also come and visit us in the IRC chat room (#phpnw) on irc.freenode.net, there’s usually a fair few of us hanging out there.

We’re looking forward to seeing you at PHPNW09.

As the phpnw09 conference approaches, one thing we’d love you to do is help promote it.

An excellent way to do this is to place one of these logos on your site and link to us at http://conference.phpnw.org.uk/phpnw09/.

You can either download the logos and host them on your own web space (as long as they’re only used for linking back to us) or just cut’n’paste the code below into your site.

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