Comments on: Making Conferences Better http://www.brandonsavage.net/making-conferences-better/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-conferences-better The personal blog of Brandon Savage. Contains entries of a personal and professional nature focusing on PHP, Apple, LAMP, MySQL and Washington, DC. Wed, 15 May 2013 14:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2-alpha By: Ivo http://www.brandonsavage.net/making-conferences-better/#comment-8004 Ivo Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:32:01 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=2227#comment-8004 Hi Brandon,

Thank you very much for your thoughts. I was thinking exactly the same one year ago and decided to do something. With the help of my company I organized eZ Publish Summer Camp last September. The focus was totally on hands-on workshops usually 3 hours long. The target was to have an event which is not a conference nor training, but something in the middle.

Btw, just started preparing the event for this year. Goal is to have 4th track: Symfony :)

]]> By: Markus Wolff http://www.brandonsavage.net/making-conferences-better/#comment-7704 Markus Wolff Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:52:22 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=2227#comment-7704 “Junior developers can learn from senior developers who are willing to teach them. Spending just a few minutes with senior developers like Elizabeth Smith taught me a tremendous amount at conferences I attended.”

That’s why at the PHP Unconference in Germany we have whopping 30 minute breaks between each and every session, so people have time to get together and talk. Lunch break is even 1.5 hours. From what I’ve heard from the attendees, for many this is the most exciting part of the unconference, more so than many of the sessions.

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