conference attendees

After hearing about how great PHP Benelux Conferences were I finally made it over to Belgium to check it out, and i was impressed.

To catch you up on the new, I moved to Amsterdam last december and thus had the chance of attending the conference which is now 2 hours away on a train ride.

If you've ever been to a conference and felt like they missed the target on the topics you wanted to see, Kevin Schroeder, an organizer for this year's Zend/PHP Conference, is asking for feedback from the community as to what they want to see at this year's event.

In an interesting move to help make things easier (and better for the environment) for the attendees of their tek11 conference, the php|architect group is going with an "all digital" format for their conference materials this year.

Linux Blog Safari: "Bearded or bloated -- or both? LinuxCon was a hugely satisfying event for many conference attendees, but it also brought out some discontent."

Computerworld AU: "In a story just dripping with irony, e-mail security vendor, McAfee, has accidentally sent the contact details of more than 1400 conference attendees in a spreadsheet attached to a thank you message."

The Linux Foundation’s job is promote the use of Linux-based open source software, whose code is freely available for anyone to examine, modify and distribute as they please.

Yet the foundation’s first End User Collaboration Summit in New York City this week was closed to the press and the public, open only to guests by invitation.

Does anyone see a contradiction here?

New online tools make it easier for conference attendees in N.Y. to exchange ideas and opinions about IT issues and the conference itself.