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:Author: 		lapis
:Date:			Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:34:43 +0100
:Revision: 		8
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PHP Barcamp Austria 2010
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:Keywords: 
  PHP, barcamp, community, sozial, event, austria

:Description:
 
:Abstract:
  Earlier this year I got the invitation to the `PHP Barcamp`_ in Salzburg, Austria.
  I was really surprised since I did not know there was an active PHP community in 
  Austria at all.

.. _PHP Barcamp: http://www.phpbarcamp.at/


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Since I got the invitation from a good friend of mine, I certainly followed her call and 
flew to Salzburg to the first PHP Barcamp in austria last weekend. The Barcamp was very 
well organized and the location well chosen.   

.. |barcampLogo| image:: ../images/speakerButtons/Phpbarcamp_logo.jpg
                 :alt: Logo of PHP Barcamp Salzburg 2010
                 :target: http://phpbarcamp.at
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Accomanied by two friends of mine we arrived in the late afternoon at the `Hotel Europa Salzburg`_.
After checkin we went to the welcome party in a nearby brewery. The party was well 
visitied, but there were a noticable low rate of austrian participants.

.. _Hotel Europa Salzburg: http://www.austria-trend.at/Hotel-Europa-Salzburg/en/

 
The each day started at about 10.00hrs and after the usual organizational stuff a barcamp 
always starts with (accepting talks, voting and scheduling) the talks started at about 
11.15hrs. The schedule_ was commendable and incredible fast registered on joind.in so the 
participiants had the chance to vote right after the talks. There were two slots with about 
5 talks in parallel with very differnt topics like `regular expressions`_, documentation_, 
and `best practices`_.

.. _schedule: http://joind.in/event/view/381
.. _regular expressions: http://joind.in/talk/view/1620
.. _documentation: http://joind.in/talk/view/1614
.. _best practices: http://joind.in/talk/view/1609


All in all it was a very nice barcamp which I intend to participate again in the future. 
At this point I'd like to say many thanks to the organizers and helper for their great
work and huge efforts they made this barcamp a big success.

Last but not least I want to call out to every austrian PHP developer to be more active
at a PHP barcamp to get to know each other and have a platform to exchange knowleadge
and wisdom for your daily work.


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- Jason Purdy at Tue, 04 May 2010 14:50:04 +0200

  Sounds awesome - especially since it was in Saltzburg. Hope you had a chance
  to check out the Augustiner. :)