ZendCon Uncon

What's an Unconference you ask? Have you heard of BarCamp? How about PodCamp? They're all Unconferences. The point of an Unconference is to get rid of the structure and provide a community-driven event focused on interesting topics of the moment, and engages everyone at whatever level they can. Normally, people pitch around presentation ideas, everyone votes that morning, a bit of chaos ensues, and a schedule pops out the other end. That means you don't necessarily know who will be there or what the topics will be until then.

And that's where we're a little different... since we're attached to ZendCon 2009, we know who will be there and we can choose some of the topics in advance and put the word out in advance.  Of course, we're not going to choose all of them in advance.  We've learned from previous uncons and have taken feedback.  Here's how it will work:

• All of the sessions are on Joind.in: http://joind.in/event/zendcon09-uncon and were open for public voting.  Each day was scheduled by late afternon on the previous day.

Tuesday, October 20
Time	Alpha	Bravo
10:00 - 11:00	Twig, the flexible, fast, and secure template language for PHP Fabien Potencier	We are "hiring"! Hannes Magnusson
11:15 - 12:15	Intro into Solar Framework Richard Thomas	Doctrine 2.0: Enterprise Persistence Layer for PHP Guilherme Blanco
12:15 - 1:30	Lunch
2:45 - 3:45	Intro to NOLOH: Easier and more powerful than your current Framework Asher Snyder	Project Triage and Rescue: web2project D. Keith Casey Jr.
4:00 - 5:00	Forget the Hype: Real-World Experiences Running PHP Frameworks in the Cloud Kevin Leneway	Unit Testing with Zend Framework Michelangelo van Dam
5:15 - 6:15	Motivating developers Anna Filina	Enriching your views Ben Scholzen
Wednesday, October 21
Time	Alpha	Bravo
10:00 - 11:00	Mastering RESTful Web Services on Zend Framework Rob Taylor	Keeping your PHP Lean Chris Cornutt
11:15 - 12:15	Integrating PHP and Hardware Kevin Hoyt	Handling Database Deployment Mike Willbanks
12:15 - 1:30	Lunch
2:45 - 3:45	About token and lexemes Ben Scholzen	Role of a PHP User Group Michelangelo van Dam & Anna Filina
4:00 - 5:00	Secure Cookies - Beyond SSL Dustin Sweigart	Continuous Integration without Atlassian Sebastian Bergmann & Stefan Priebsch
5:15 - 6:15	Message Queuing and Offline Processing in PHP Marcel Esser	Caching for Performance Rob Allen
Thursday, October 22
Time	Alpha	Bravo
8:00 - 9:00	PHP.net Redesign - We Want you! Hannes Magnusson & Stewart Lord	SPL, not a bridge too far ! Michelangelo van Dam
9:15 - 10:15	Building desktop apps with PHP Scott Schwarzhoff	The Lost Art of Simplicity Josh Holmes
10:30 - 11:30	What Happens When a Website Crashes: A Case Study John Bafford	Dependency Injection Round Table Jeremy Kendall

If you have questions, please let me know.