Tag: conferences
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Comference 2021 is this week, and I’m really looking forward to it!
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We’re doing another thing. Three 1.5 hour sessions about different topics in which a panel will discuss the subject at hand and answer questions asked by attendees. The accompanying podcast will give you a nice reminder of the things that were discussed.
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Over all these years it has been very normal for conference speakers to not get paid for their effort, at least in the PHP community. But is that fair? With Comference, we’ve decided that we’ll reimburse speakers for their time.
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Last week we organized Comference, an online conference from the comfort of your own home. Or office. Or wherever. This post contains some lessons learned.
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PHP NorthWest 2017 was the last PHPNW (for now). The conference was important, so it is time to say thank you.
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I need to admit a mistake. I made a mistake in judgement when selecting which games to bring to the WeCamp Game Night.
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It’s been a while since I’ve done a post like this, but given the focus of the upcoming events I thought I’d give a small overview of my upcoming speaker appearances. Why? For 2017 I want to once again focus a bit more on building bridges. I’ve done this a couple of years ago but…
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I recently finished a book that has been in my possession for quite some time already, The Serendipity Machine by Sebastian Olma. Subtitled A Disruptive Business Model for Society 3.0 sounds very buzzword-y and startup-y, but despite the subtitle it was a very good book. I’ve been a big fan of the Seats2Meet concept for…
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It’s just past 5AM as I start writing this. I’m sitting downstairs in the ZendCon hotel, with a view on an empty bar and brightly coloured gambling machines. Since I woke up at 3AM (don’t you love jetlag?) and today is the day I travel back home, I’ve been reflecting on the conference. I’ll be…
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: PHPNW conference, every first weekend of October in Manchester, is the best PHP conference I’ve ever been to. I buy my ticket blindly as soon as they go on sale every year. I’ve been accepted to speak very regularly in previous years and then raffle off…