Les 22, 23, 24 et 25 juin se déroule en Norvège deux événements importants pour le monde PHP. Une tribu francophone est déjà présente et elle ne demande qu'à grossir encore.

eZ publish 2006 conference (les 22 et 23 juin) :
- 4 tracks : enterprise PHP, enterprise CMS, eZ publish débutant, eZ publish expert.
- Des intervenants prestigieux qui donneront des conférences de première ordre : NASA, MIT, MySQL, ZEND, eZ systems, Zend, Edipresse, projet PHP, projet PHPunit ... sur des thèmes divers : eZ publish, gestion de contenus, gestion des performances, testing via phpunit, développement d'application à partir d'eZ components ...
- Une audience de plus de 260 personnes, l'occasion unique de rencontrer et d'échanger avec d'autres utilisateurs de PHP, d'eZ publish et d'eZ components.

eZ systems propose des forfaits particulièrement abordables, comprenant conférence, hôtel et restauration.
Il reste encore des places libres, et même si officiellement les inscriptions sont closes, il reste encore quelques jours avant que les contraintes logistiques ne permettent plus d'accueillir du monde. Pour s'inscrire : http://ez.no/company/events/ez_publish_conference_2006

PHP Vikinger (les 23 et 24 juin) :
Une (un)conference (cf. (cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference)) communautaire sur PHP. Il s'agit d'une conférence ou le contenu des échanges et présentations est totalement défini par les participants eux même et non pas par l'organisation ou par des sponsors. Evénement encore plus abordable, pour une audience plus limitée (attention ça sera vite complet) mais aussi beaucoup plus centrée sur PHP. La liste d'invités est très longue et compte la majorité des experts PHP du moment ! Plus de détail ou s'inscrire, voir http://phpvikinger.org ou voler l'invitation de Zak, en anglais ci-dessous, à faire suivre ...)

Le programme de la conférence eZ publish :

Jeudi 22 juin : eZ publish Conference day I

- 09:15
Key note: Enterprise Open Source - Aleksander Farstad (CEO eZ systems)

- 10:00
eZ publish "Getting started" : eZ publish basic concepts (Part 1)
eZ publish "Expert" : eZ publish : A year in retrospect (Jan Borsodi - Chief Software Engineer eZ systems)
Enterprise CMS : Case study: NASA
Enterprise PHP : State of MySQL (David Axmark - Co-founder of MySQL)

- 10:30
eZ publish "Getting started" : eZ publish basic concepts (Part 2)
eZ publish "Expert" : eZ publish Clustering (Part 1) (Vidar Langseid - eZ systems)
Enterprise CMS : Case study: NASA (Part 2)
Enterprise PHP : eZ components Intro/State (Derick Rethans - eZ systems)

- 11:00
eZ publish "Getting started" : eZ publish content publishing
eZ publish "Expert" : eZ publish Clustering (Part 2) (Vidar Langseid - eZ systems)
Enterprise CMS : Case study: Zend
Enterprise PHP : eZ components Workshop (Part 1) (Tobias Schlitt - eZ systems)

- 11:30 Lunch

- 13:00
Key note: Martin White

- 14:00
eZ publish "Getting started" : End user sessions
eZ publish "Expert" : eZ publish on steroids (Paul Borgermans - SCK-CEN)
Enterprise CMS : Case study: Swiss TV
Enterprise PHP : eZ components Workshop (Part 2) (Tobias Schlitt - eZ systems)

- 14:30
eZ publish "Getting started" : End user sessions
eZ publish "Expert" : Free Software and Open Source licensing (Part 1) ( Zak Greant - eZ systems)
Enterprise CMS : Case study: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Enterprise PHP : eZ components Workshop (Part 3) (Tobias Schlitt-eZ systems)

- 15:00
eZ publish "Getting started" : End user sessions
eZ publish "Expert" : Free Software and Open Source licensing (Part 2) ( Zak Greant - eZ systems)
Enterprise CMS : Case study: Edipresse
Enterprise PHP : Introduction to object oriented php (Part 1) (Marcus Börger)

- 15:30
eZ publish "Getting started" : End user sessions
eZ publish "Expert" : The future of eZ publish: 4.0 (eZ publish Product Manager Jan Kudlicka - eZ systems)
Enterprise CMS : MySQL Enterprise Suite (Kristofer Petterson - MySQL)
Enterprise PHP : Introduction to object oriented php (Part 2) (Marcus Börger)

- 19:00 eZ Awards dinner

- 20:00 eZ Awards

Vednredi 23 juin : eZ publish Conference day II

- 10:00
Technical Key note: Rasmus Lerdorf

- 11:00
eZ publish "Getting started" : End user sessions
eZ publish "Expert" : eZ publish performance (Part 1) (Bård Farstad - eZ systems)
Enterprise CMS : Case study: eZ publish in tOSSad EU Project (Bülent Özel)
Enterprise PHP : Testing PHP Applications with PHPUnit 3 (Part 1) (Sebastian Bergmann)

- 11:30
eZ publish "Getting started" : End user sessions
eZ publish "Expert" : eZ publish performance (Part 2) (Bård Farstad - eZ systems)
Enterprise CMS : Case study: to be completed
Enterprise PHP : Testing PHP Applications with PHPUnit 3 (Part 2) (Sebastian Bergmann)

- 12:00
Lunch

- 13:00
Key note:

- 14:00
eZ publish "Getting started" : End user sessions
eZ publish "Expert" : Emerging technology in eZ systems (Bård Farstad - eZ systems)
Enterprise CMS : Professional e-business with eZ publish (Frank Dege - silver. solutions)
Enterprise PHP : How to use eZ components to improve product quality (Sébastien Hordeaux - Waterproof)

- 14:30
eZ publish "Getting started" : End user sessions
eZ publish "Expert" : Pick the brains of the eZ publish Core team (Part 1) (Together with the Hackathon)
Enterprise CMS : Knowledge management with eZ publish (Sandro Groganz - eZ systems)
Enterprise PHP : High performance PHP (Part 1) (Ilia Alsanetsky)

- 15:00
eZ publish "Getting started" : End user sessions
eZ publish "Expert" : Pick the brains of the eZ publish Core team (Part 2)
Enterprise CMS : Case study: Finn.no (Morten Zetlitz Berglie - Finn.no)
Enterprise PHP : High performance PHP (Part 2) (Ilia Alsanetsky)

- 15:45
Official closing of the eZ publish Conference 2006

- 19:00
Closing party

et PHPVikinger en quelques mots, en anglais par l'organisateur :

PHP VIKINGER - WHAT IS IT?
"""""""""""""""""""""""
The PHP Vikinger is a community-driven PHP event that will be held in
Skien Norway from June 24th to 25th.

Incredibly Cool
'''''''''''''''
Cool things about the event are:
* Attendees choose and present the content of the event [0]
* It is super-cheap: only 20 Euros registration for two days [1]
* Did we mention the super-cheap? Simple food [2] and a place to sleep
are provided for the two days of the event. [3]
* It is during Midsummer in Norway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer)
* We've invited cool people, who will then invite other cool people [4]
*and* the event is open to anyone who registers, as long as there is
space. To avoid nominating people who are invited, see the list of other
invitees below.

Not So Cool
'''''''''''
Uncool things about the event are:
* You still have to pay to get to Norway. If you can get to an airport
that RyanAir (http://ryanair.com) flys out of, it is pretty cheap to
get to Skien by flying into Torp airport.
* The free sleeping area is in a local school and is on the floor. Bring
sleeping bags and a foam mat (or a credit card for a hotel room).
* We have invited cool people, who will then invite other cool people
*and* the event is open to anyone who registers, as long as there is
space. ;)

WHAT NEXT?
""""""""""
Want to get involved? Here is what you do:

Confirm your attendance (or lack thereof)
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Write to me and let me know ...
* If you are attending, we want to make sure you are on the list of
registered attendees.
* If you aren't attending, let us know and we will give your space to
someone who registers.
* Even if you don't attend, please nominate other potential attendees
and help promote the event.
* If you are undecided, don't worry - you have til May 15 to decide.

Nominate others
'''''''''''''''
* Nominate up to 10 other people as attendees - we will hold fifty spots
for the top nominees who can make it.
* When considering who to choose, think about people who help make
conferences and user group meetings interesting, useful and fun.

Promote the event
'''''''''''''''''
* Help other people find out about the event (there will be 50+ slots
for open registration)
* Help support the sponsors [5]
* Help attract other sponsors
* ... and by great and mighty Zarquon, blog the @#%#@ out of the event.
I will post a short and simple announcement on my blog that is free
for the stealing, mangling and posting.

http://zak.greant.com/steal-this-php-vikinger-announcement

Get ready for the event
'''''''''''''''''''''''
* Book your travel
* Think about what kind of event you want to help make - start planning
sessions to present, work on ideas for discussion groups, think of
projects to hack on, suggest topics that you would like to learn more
about, etc.
* Visit http://phpvikinger.org/ for more information and place to start
participating.

Cheers!
--zak

[0] That's right - attendees choose the content and give the sessions,
not sponsors or organizers. See Wikipedia for more details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

[1] Plans are to donate money raised to the FFII (http://www.ffii.org/),
FSFE (http://fsfeurope.org/) and No Software Patents
(http://noepatents.eu.org) anti-software patent campaigns.

[2] I don't know that we can guarantee halal, idal, kosher, vegan, etc.
food, but we will do our best. Please let me know if you have
special requirements and we can try to work something out.

[3] A local school has been rented - bring a sleeping bag. Alternately,
you can book a hotel room.

[4] You may be wondering who did the inviting and how invitees were
chosen?

The answer is pretty simple - I combined the PHP and PEAR credits
with a list of people who I had written personal email to in the
last few year. Nepotistic? "Nay", say I, "Nepotastic!"

I don't feel too bad though - the 50+ open slots mean that anyone
can still get in. Also, those who do register are pretty much
guaranteed of having an excellent group of people attending -
various great PHP hackers have already confirmed their attendance.
:)

[5] eZ systems, a company that I work for, is currently the major
sponsor of the event. We are looking for other sponsors. The goal
of the sponsorship is to break even.

Invitees:

* Aaron Wormus
* Adam Trachtenberg
* Alexander Barkov
* Alexander Wirtz
* Ammar Ibrahim
* Andi Gutmans
* Andrei Zmievski
* Baard Farstad
* Ben Nolan
* Chris Shiflett
* Christopher Kunz
* Christian Hauser
* Christian Stocker
* Colin Viebrock
* Cornelia Boenigk
* Damien Seguy
* David Sklar
* Derick Rethans
* Gabor Hojtsy
* Gavin Sherry
* Georg Richter
* George Schlossnagle
* Hartmut Holzgraefe
* Ilia Alshanetsky
* Jan Borsodi
* Jan Kneschke
* Jani Taskinen
* Jim Winstead
* Johann-Peter Hartmann
* John Coggeshall
* Ken Coar
* Kore Nordmann
* Landon Bradshaw
* Lucian Savluc
* Lukas Kahwe Smith
* Marco Kaiser
* Marco Tabini
* Marcus Boerger
* Michael Radwin
* Rasmus Lerdorf
* Sandro Groganz
* Sebastian Bergmann
* Shane Caraveo
* Simone Cortesi
* Stefan Hinz
* Steph Fox
* Sterling Hughes
* Tobias Schlitt
* Thies Arntzen
* Thomas Weinart
* Wez Furlong
* Zeev Suraski

Proposé par Roland Benedetti