Call for Papers

The 2008 DC PHP Conference & Expo
Call for Papers

George Washington University's Cafritz Conference Center, Marvin Hall
June 2-4, 2008
Washington, DC
Present your concept or application at one of our technical, business or non-profit sessions

SUBMIT YOUR PAPER NOW!


Submission Deadline:          March 31, 2008
Notification by:April 15, 2008

Your participation will make this conference a success. DC PHP requests that you submit an abstract. The 2008 conference features presentations and discussions on the advantages of PHP, as well as case studies of proven PHP applications that are used within and in support of enterprise systems.

The conference selection committee will consider all abstracts submitted on or before March 31, 2008.

AREAS OF INTEREST FOR PROPOSALS

DC PHP is currently soliciting proposals for presentation at the 2008 DC PHP Conference. Proposals should focus on helping attendees by teaching from your experience. Any PHP-related topic may be proposed; some specific areas we'd like to see submissions for:

  1. Business Cases
    • How has PHP impacted your business – Revenue Growth, Customer Satisfaction, Time Savings, Economic Savings, Resource Savings or other?
    • What does PHP do for you that you cannot get from other technologies?
    • ROI with PHP, PHP TCO compared with Java, .NET, etc.
  2. Best Practices
    • Architecture: SOA, databases, clusters
    • Performance, scalability, security
    • Time to market improvements, quality management, agile PHP
    • PHP/Java/.NET mixing, matching or choosing
  3. The Art of PHP
    • Resources: Tools, libraries and techniques
    • How-to's & tricks of the trade
    • Web services, XML, and SOA
    • Secrets of smooth database integration
    • Tips on designing for reusability
    • Advanced techniques
  4. PHP Applications
    • Home grown or existing PHP applications
    • Eclipse PDT tutorials
    • Alfresco, Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, Nuke, Xoops, etc. case studies
    • Wiki's Forums, Blogs, Email and other collaboration tools
    • Business Intelligence and PHP applications
    • CRM, ERP and PHP applications
  5. PHP in the Enterprise
    • Integration: barriers and solutions
    • Setting up application design/development/test/debug/deploy for PHP teams
    • Application/Change management
    • From grass-roots to mainstream, how does PHP grow in the organization
  6. Open Source
    • PHP in the Government
    • PHP and Politics
    • Governance in the PHP community
Please be clear about the experience and knowledge level of the audience that you are targeting: novice, intermediate, or expert. Keep in mind that we look for a balance of all three experience levels when determining the conference schedule.

Proposals are due March 31, 2008.

Session Specifications:

Tutorials:      On the third day, June 4th, 3 hour tutorials.
Session:Sessions are ONE hour in length

All accepted, non-local speakers will receive a $200 stipend to off-set travel and lodging costs. All speakers will receive a free, three-day conference pass.

SUBMIT YOUR PAPER NOW!