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…
I’ve been meaning to write more about speaking recently, so after I wrote about my personal CFP rule, let’s write about a very related topic: The Speaker Package. What is it? The speaker package is the term used for the package of reimbursements and other advantages you have as a speaker. This may (or may…
One of the first things you do if you want to speak is that you submit to a CFP (Call for Papers) of a conference. Most conferences use this system to get a nice selection of talks out of which to compile the schedule for a conference. The idea is that speakers tell the conference…