├── pnwphp.md ├── zendcon.md ├── readme.md ├── fosdem.md ├── license.md ├── phpuk.md ├── phptek.md └── sunshinephp.md /pnwphp.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Pacific Northwest PHP 2 | 3 | Website: http://www.pnwphp.com/ 4 | Twitter: https://twitter.com/pnwphp 5 | 6 | ### About The Conference 7 | 8 | A single track conference held in Seattle, Washington. 9 | 10 | ### Tips 11 | 12 | ### Speakers 13 | 14 | ### Things To See 15 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /zendcon.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # ZendCon 2 | 3 | Website: http://www.zendcon.com/ 4 | Twitter: https://twitter.com/zendcon 5 | Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/search?text=zendcon&structured=yes 6 | 7 | ### About The Conference 8 | 9 | ZendCon, the premier PHP conference sponsored by Zend & RogueWave! 10 | 11 | ### Tips 12 | 13 | ### Speakers 14 | 15 | ### Things To See 16 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /readme.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Conference Tips 2 | 3 | This repository contains a list of tips which you can review before heading to a conference. Feel free to send in your own tips for conferences you attended! 4 | 5 | ## Europe 6 | 7 | - [Fosdem](fosdem.md) 8 | - [PHP UK](phpuk.md) 9 | 10 | ## Northern-America 11 | 12 | - [Pacific Northwest PHP](pnwphp.md) 13 | - [PHP[TEK]](phptek.md) 14 | - [Sunshine PHP](sunshinephp.md) 15 | - [ZendCon](zendcon.md) 16 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /fosdem.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Fosdem 2 | 3 | Website: https://fosdem.org 4 | 5 | ### Tips 6 | 7 | - Rooms are usually packed pretty soon. Come early to get a seat. 8 | - Since you might spend a long time in a single room it's best to bring a bottle of water. 9 | - Don't need to bring food. Plenty of food options from the food trucks and much dinner options around the venue. 10 | - [FOSDEM Companion](https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=fosdem&fdid=be.digitalia.fosdem) is an invaluable Android app to, among other things, help you plan your schedule before the conference and get maps and reminders at the conference. 11 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /license.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | MIT License 2 | 3 | Copyright (c) 2017 Dries Vints 4 | 5 | Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy 6 | of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal 7 | in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights 8 | to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell 9 | copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is 10 | furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: 11 | 12 | The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all 13 | copies or substantial portions of the Software. 14 | 15 | THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 16 | IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 17 | FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 18 | AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 19 | LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, 20 | OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE 21 | SOFTWARE. 22 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /phpuk.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # PHP UK Conference 2 | 3 | Website: [phpconference.co.uk](http://phpconference.co.uk/) 4 | 5 | ### Tips 6 | 7 | - The day before the conference there is always a pre-conference meetup/social. If you wait long enough, some batches of speakers will drop in after their dinner. 8 | - London in February means rainy days. But if you bring an umbrella, there is a free cloakroom service. Be kind to staff :-) 9 | - Brits like to queue. Queue to get your badge, queue to get food, queue to get your stuff from the cloakroom, ... 10 | - The location is called "The Brewery". There are some big rooms and several ways to access them. Take a different exit then the door you entered a room to discover all of them. Even the best explorers will get disorientated. 11 | - There is a multi-religion prayer room 🙏 very open to all people. 12 | - This conference is big. Up to 700 people attending. So if you want to see a session, make sure to have a seat 5 minutes before a session starts. 13 | - Food at lunch is amazingly delicious. But if you're hungry, the Whitecross Street has a nice street market with food stands. Delicious food being made there too. 14 | - The cheapest place to stay is the Travel Lodge. You will definitely run into people attending the conference in the lobby downstairs. 15 | - There's chilled water (and coffee?) at all times in the sponsor area and chill area. 16 | - Extremely useful tip I've tried myself: get your stuff from the cloakroom _before_ the closing keynote. This way you don't have to queue when everyone want their stuff at the same time after the closing keynote. 17 | 18 | ### Drinks 19 | 20 | London bars close to the venue where people might hang out after conference hours: 21 | 22 | - [The Fox](https://goo.gl/maps/K6zrMzsM5XL2) 23 | - [Blueberry Bar](https://goo.gl/maps/LfLkYVMrimk) 24 | - [Finch's Pub](https://goo.gl/maps/bwGJmYCnAht) 25 | - [The Craft Beer Co.](https://goo.gl/maps/q5HZAxdjpDn) 26 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /phptek.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # PHP[TEK] 2 | 3 | Website: https://tek.phparch.com/ 4 | Twitter: https://twitter.com/phptek 5 | Conf Hashtag: `#phptek` 6 | Location: Atlanta, GA 7 | 8 | ### About The Conference 9 | 10 | PHP[TEK], brought to you by the people who run PHPArch, returns for the 12th year, this time taking place in Atlanta, GA. They bring some of the best speakers, both local and international to speak about topics varying from framework specific to soft skills. They offer both technical talks and tutorial days. A conference that every developer should go to at least once, you will leave energized and ready to tackle some big problems you have in your codebase! 11 | 12 | ### Tips 13 | 14 | - Being in Atlanta, GA this year opens up the possibility for some reasonable flights. Since Hartsfield Jackson International Airport handles an insane amount of traffic, you should not have a hard time finding a flight at a cost your employer wont balk at 15 | - The hotel is right at the airport, so you do not have to worry about transportation or being far from the airport 16 | - Atlanta does have a transit system, albeit not amazing (former Atlanta resident writing this). You can get to a few nightspot hubs but you may also have to use Lyft/Walk a few minutes from the train station 17 | - The organizers always put on a great after conference day social events. They are a great opportunity to relax and socialize a bit with attendees and speakers alike 18 | - As of last year, PHP[TEK] did livestream their keynotes 19 | 20 | ### Things To See 21 | 22 | Also includes Marta stops. 23 | 24 | - Martin Luther King Jr. Center and Ebenezer Church where Dr. King was a preacher at (King Center) 25 | - CNN Center and take a tour of the studios (Georgia Dome + 10 minute walk) 26 | - Little 5 Points - Bohemian paradise, fun shops, great bars (Inman Park + 10 minute walk) 27 | - Piedmont Park - Designed by the people who did Central Park in NYC, great to get some fresh air. You can catch the beltline to Ponce City Market where companies like Twitter, Mailchimp and others have offices. Great food here (Midtown Station + 20 minute walk through Midtown) 28 | - High Museum of Art - Its an art museum with some amazing pieces (Arts Center) 29 | - BIG IF: Atlanta Braves Baseball Game. Youll have to check the schedule, but it looks like there will be a few games you can catch 30 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /sunshinephp.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # SunshinePHP 2 | 3 | Website: http://sunshinephp.com 4 | Twitter: https://twitter.com/sunshinephp 5 | Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=sunshinephp 6 | SoFloPHP: https://twitter.com/SoFloPHP 7 | 8 | ### About The Conference 9 | 10 | SunshinePHP is a local run user group conference. Ran by [SoFloPHP](https://www.meetup.com/South-Florida-PHP-Users-Group/), [Adam Culp](https://twitter.com/adamculp) has been organizing this conference for over 4 years. He brings together a large skillset in speakers ranging from Laravel Experts, Zend Framework Experts, DevOps magicians, and so many more. You are bound to leave this conference ready to implement new tools and ideas into your existing workflow. 11 | 12 | ### Tips 13 | 14 | - It's Miami in winter (early February). Don't bring your coat. Outside it's hot! Inside it's chilly (air conditioned). 15 | - This conference is not that crowded. So you can basically step into a room 30 seconds before a talk starts. 16 | - It takes place in an airport hotel called Embassy Suites by Hilton. 17 | - There is a hotel shuttle from the airport. It runs on the half hour and very easy to miss. You can call the hotel and have them send it back, or if you prefer, Lyft/Uber generally has ten plus cars driving around so you wont be at the airport for long. 18 | - If you stay in the hotel you'll be able to hang around the speakers for 48+ hours, so a lot of networking opportunities. 19 | - Also if you stay in the hotel you'll be able to enjoy the happy hour after conference hours. If not: bad luck (there are ways around this). 20 | - There is breakfast with strong coffee and lunch provided by the conference. Vegetarian options available. 21 | - Soda drinks at all times (USA) 22 | - There's chilled water in every room. 23 | - Provides an uncon space as well, so if you are attending and get the urge to speak there is a possibility for you to do that. 24 | - Hotel has a bar and restaurant on site, a good way to socialize and meet other developers. Can be pricey though! 25 | 26 | ### Speakers 27 | 28 | - The conference will get you three nights in the hotel, four if you are doing a tutorial as well. 29 | - There is a speaker dinner the Thursday night before the conference. 30 | - Flights in and out of Miami are always at odd times, so be ready for that. 31 | - Your room key is how you take advantage of the free happy hour the hotel offers. 32 | - There is a business center, gym and pool. Its warm in Miami during February, so swimming is an option. 33 | - The rooms ar generally kept cooler then average, so if you are the first talk in the morning, prepare for being a little chilly. 34 | - Bring all the adapters you can think of for your computer. Some of the more seasoned speakers will be able to cover you if you forget a dongle. 35 | - As always, the conference wifi isnt great. They put access points in every room, but do your best to not rely on the internet. 36 | - If you forgot something at home, there is a small shop that can get you most personal care things. 37 | 38 | ### Things To See 39 | 40 | - Miami Beach (South Beach) 41 | - Downtown Miami 42 | - Design District 43 | - Wynwood: VERY lively neighbourhood 44 | - Sugar: an expensive rooftop bar with a view over the downtown skyline 45 | - Dogma: a Hot Dog place far away from the conference, but gotta get the original thing, right? 46 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------