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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100
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Report from Asterdam (finally)
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:Description:
    So, since I had no time yesterday to write some stuff on Amsterdam and the
    net connection there was too poor to upload some photos and stuff, I will
    give you a little overview now.

So, since I had no time yesterday to write some stuff on Amsterdam and the net
connection there was too poor to upload some photos and stuff, I will give you
a little overview now.

First of all some links:
- The `International PHP Conference`__ 2004 Spring Edition
- Photos by `Christian Stocker`__
- Photos by `Derick Rethans`__
- Photos by `David Costa`__
- Photos by `me`__
- `Slides and the example app`__ of the PEAR Powerworkshop

Additional photos will follow, I guess.

Stefan N. and me arrived on Sunday the 2nd of May in Amsterdam and met the
other speakers at the late afternoon in the Novotel. Speakers were booked into
different hotels this time, what made communication a bit more complicated.

First shock was that in the Holiday Inn (where Lukas, Pierre, Christian S.,
Stefan N. and me stayed) had no wireless internet connection at all and in the
Novotel (where the rest stayed) the wifi was 30 Euro per day and only
available in the lobby. But we all are not internet addicted (\*ggg\*).
Nevertheless, the sunday evening was great since we got out all together to
have a Pizza (Thai was planned but no restaurant had enough space). Afterwards
we met Arnaud Limbourg and David Costa and went out for Amsterdam Central to
have a beer.

Read about the rest of the Conf...

On Monday morning Lukas and me started our power workshop "PEAR - Not just a
fleshy pome", where we gave people a deep introduction into PEAR history,
internals, usage and development. During our example project, the MiniWiki, we
introduced the packages `Auth`__, `HTML_QuickForm`__, `MDB2`__, `LiveUser`__,
`Text_Wiki`__ and `XML_Serializer`__. Luckily I have a copy of PEARWeb running
on my laptop, since there was no net connection available the morning and when
we established it at noon, we realized that it does not last into the session
rooms. No matter, I believe the workshop went quite fine and people learned
something from it.

On the evening the PEAR meeting took place. Lukas, David (Costa), Arnaud,
Cipri, Betrand and me attended live at the Terena Office (Amsterdam) which was
sponsored by Jeroen Houben. Beside us live attendees a huge bunch of people
attendet on IRC. Several issues (by far not all) were discussed and a few
decisions have been made. The community currently works on a summary of that
meeting which will be available on the PEAR website and as usual linked on my
blog. In connection to the meeting we went out for a few beer.

The next 2 days where usual conference with (more or less) interessting
sessions. Very good were "Livedocs" by Gábor Hojtsy, PEAR::LiveUser by
Lukas Smith and Run PHP on Parrot by Sterling Hughes and Thies Arntzen. 

But beside these, the social aspect of the conference is a very important
point. Meeting people you only know from IRC or mail is cool and discussing
eye2eye is even cooler. There were many possibilities this time to do so.
Especially nice were the nights (the speaker dinner and the beers in
Amsterdam), but also the breks between conference sessions.

All in all it's been a cool event (as usual) and I'm pretty much looking
forward to the Linuxtag in June and the Frankfurt Conference in November.
Anyway, a 3rd one for the next half year would be cool, so, if you organize a
conference anywhere around the world: Just tell me! ;)

.. __: http://www.php-conference.com/2004/

.. __: http://gallery.chregu.tv/phpconf2004ams

.. __: http://photos.derickrethans.nl/phpconf04a

.. __: http://homepage.mac.com/gurugeek/PhotoAlbum11.html

.. __: /applications/gallery/php_conference_2004_amsterdam

.. __: /download/PEAR_Powerworkshop_Spring_2004.tar.gz

.. __: http://pear.php.net/Auth

.. __: http://pear.php.net/HTML_QuickForm

.. __: http://pear.php.net/MDB2

.. __: http://pear.php.net/LiveUser

.. __: http://pear.php.net/Text_Wiki

.. __: http://pear.php.net/XML_Serializer


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