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The Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 is a conference run by open
source developers, for developers and business people. It covers
numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems, and
related topics such as business processes, licensing, and strategy.
Talks vary from introductory pieces through to the deeply technical. It
is a great opportunity to meet, share, and learn with like-minded
individuals.

This year, the conference will be held in Sydney, Australia during the
first week of December. If you are an Open Source maintainer, developer
or user, the organising committee would encourage you to submit a talk
proposal on open source tools, solutions, languages or technologies you
are working with.

For more details, see:
http://osdc.com.au/2008/papers/cfp.html.

If you have any questions or require assistance with your submission,
please don't hesitate to ask!

We continue to recognise the increasing importance of Open Source
in providing a medium for collaboration between individuals,
researchers, business and government. In recognition of this and
ensure a high standard of presentations, we intend to peer-review
all submitted papers.

OSDC 2008 Sydney (Australia) - Key Program Dates:

1. 28 Apr - Call for Papers
2. 30 Jun - Initial proposals (short abstract) due
3. 21 Jul - Proposal acceptance
4. 15 Sep - Accepted paper submissions

For all information, contacts and updates, see the OSDC conference
web site at http://osdc.com.au/2008/.

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The elePHPants are now ready to make their 2008 generation.
PHP User groups, enthusiasts and companies that are interested in
groups of elePHPants, shall join this year's herd.

ElePHPants are a great link of the community, happily promoting your favorite
language in conferences, on work station, baby cribs and other unusual places.
Production prices make it possible for groups to raise funds, entice membership
or simply bring joy and PHP around.

Pre-register your herd of elePHPants
online, for big and small,
and join the world of blue elePHPants.

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The PHP development team would like to announce the immediateavailability of PHP 5.2.6. This release focuses on improving the stability ofthe PHP 5.2.x branch with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related.All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Further details about the PHP 5.2.6 release can be found in the release announcement for 5.2.6, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 5.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.6:

• Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by Andrei Nigmatulin.
• Fixed integer overflow in printf() identified by Maksymilian Aciemowicz.
• Fixed security issue detailed in CVE-2008-0599 identified by Ryan Permeh.
• Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
• Properly address incomplete multibyte chars inside escapeshellcmd() identified by Stefan Esser.
• Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 7.6

Update (May 6th): The Windows installers were missing the XSL
and IMAP extensions.

Update (May 3rd): The Windows archives were missing the XSL
and IMAP extensions.

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The PHP team is once again proud to participate in the
Google Summer of Code.
Ten students will "flip bits instead of burgers" this summer:

• Zend LLVM Extension by
  JoonasGovenius,
  
  mentored by
  NunoLopes
• PHP Optimizer by
  SamuelGraham Kelly IV,
  
  mentored by
  DerickRethans
• PhD (PHP Docbook) Project by
  RudyNappée,
  
  mentored by
  HannesMagnusson
• Replace auto* with CMake by
  Alejandro LeivaRojas,
  
  mentored by
  Pierre A.Joye
• gsoc:2008 - XDebug by
  Chung-YangLee,
  
  mentored by
  DavidCoallier
• Rewrite the run-tests.php script by
  CesarMontedonico,
  
  mentored by
  TravisSwicegood
• PHP Bindings for Cairo by
  AkshatGupta,
  
  mentored by
  AnantNarayanan
• Algorithm Optimizations by
  MichalDziemianko,
  
  mentored by
  ScottMacVicar
• PECL, Website Improvements by
  BarryCarlyon,
  
  mentored by
  Helgi ÞormarÞorbjörnsson
• Implement Unicode into PHP 6 by
  Henrique do NascimentoAngelo,
  
  mentored by
  ScottMacVicar

Update (May 11th):
Unfortunately Nicholas Sloan had to drop out of the
program, but he will be replaced by Rudy Nappée working on the same application.

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The DC PHP Developers Group recently announced Kshemendra Paul as a
featured keynote speaker at the DC PHP Conference & Expo,
June 2-4,
2008, at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Paul, chief
architect for the Office of Management and Budget Executive Office of
the President, will be presenting on "Federal E-Government and
Enterprise Architecture Updates."

Join hundreds of PHP practitioners, business managers, and government
officials from around the world in the exchange of ideas and solutions
for building a better web application infrastructure. The DC PHP
conference will include tracks pertaining to business cases, best
practices, the art of PHP, PHP applications, PHP in the enterprise,
and Open Source. The full speaker schedule will be announced shortly.

For more information about DC PHP Conference & Expo 2008 and to register,
please visit www.dcphpconference.com.
Early discounted registration rates affective until April 15, 2008

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The PHP-QA team would like to announce the
TestFest for the month of
May 2008. The TestFest is an event that aims at improving the
code coverage of the
test suite for the PHP
language itself. As part of this event, local User Groups (UG) are
invited to join the TestFest. These UGs can meet physically or come
together virtually. The point however is that people network to learn
together. Aside from being an opportunity for all of you to make friends
with like minded people in your (virtual) community, it also will
hopefully reduce the work load for the PHP.net mentors.

All it takes is someone to organize a UG to spearhead the event and
to get others involved in
writing phpt tests.
The submissions will then be reviewed by members of php.net before
getting included in the official test suite. Please visit the
TestFest homepage to get
additional details on the TestFest on how to get involved, either as a
UG or by setting up the necessary infrastructure.

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The Free and Open Source Conference (FrOSCon) 2008 is a two-day conference on free software and open source. It will take place on August, 23th and 24th 2008 in Sankt Augustin near Bonn, Germany.

The PHP Usergroups Dortmund, Köln/Bonn and Hamburg are cooperatively organizing the PHP track as a sub-conference of the FrOSCon. The call for paper is now open.

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Once again we are glad to announce that we have been accepted to be a Google Summer of Code project. See our program for this year's GSoC.

We would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to Google Inc. for this privilege to participate once again, and would like to invite everyone to look at our list of ideas: http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2008. Students are of course more than welcome to come up with their own ideas for their proposals and we will consider each and every application that we will receive.

So once again, thanks to everyone who is involved in this magnificent journey and we hope to see many of you great students and open source passionate join us in our most enjoyable Google Summer of Code projects.

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php|tek 2008: Chicago

The publishers of php|architect Magazine are proud to announce the php|tek 2008 conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The PHP Community meets May 20-23 for one of North America's premier PHP conferences of 2008. Join us to hear top speakers such as Derick Rethans (eZ Systems), Lucas Nelan (Facebook), Chris Shiflett (OmniTI), Eli White (Digg) and yes, even Terry Chay (Tagged).

For the past two years, php|architect's spring conference has sold out weeks before the start date, so if you're interested in attending, don't delay, and be sure to sign up ASAP!

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