volunteers

The PHP North West User Group ran it’s 4th (and largest yet!) PHP conference – PHPNW11 in Manchester last weekend.

No conference – especially one as well-run as PHP North West – can happen without the small army of folks who give up their time to organise and staff the conference.

I’m afraid that I didn’t manage to photograph everyone involved on the day (sorry!) but here’s to everyone who made PHP North West 2011 possible.

The community of volunteers that developed the OpenOffice.org project have split off from Oracle and formed a new structure called The Document Foundation.

Modern Perl Books: "The thing about volunteers is if it's not worth their time or energy or health or sanity or happiness to keep volunteering, they can walk away whenever they want."

PCLinuxOS Magazine: "The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the December 2009 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community."

New York Times: "In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program's creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared."

There are many faces behind what goes on at the Linux Foundation: the officers and employees who run the day to day show, the Board of Directors who keep the ship on course, and of course, the volunteers who support, promote, and participate in the Foundation's activities.

Among that number are those that act as the voice of the people themselves.

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Packt: "In this article by Christer Edwards, you'll learn a number of different ways to upgrade an existing Ubuntu installation.

Whether it is a Desktop, Laptop or Server, you'll find instructions below. These methods have been tested by volunteers around the world and should prove to be simple and problem free for you as well."

PCLinuxOS: "The New PCLinuxOS Magazine, which comprises volunteers from the PCLinuxOS community is proud to announce the release of it's July 2009 edition.

This edition brought forth several decisions from the new crew to bring it forth to a monthly release and the selection of a new Chief Editor, Paul Arnote aka parnote."