Thanks to sponsorship from Microsoft, OSDC will feature a "PHP Pre-day". Attendance and food is free thanks to the sponsorship, but numbers are limited, so get in fast!
Having used PHP for nearly 10 years, now is a very interesting time. Different Frameworks and Content Management systems such as Joomla!, Drupal, Cake and WordPress (to name a few) and the maturation of the language itself makes keeping abreast time consuming.
"You will not be borg’d and powerpointed to death with Microsoft speak," says Nick Hodge, one of the Microsoft folks attending the conference. "The day is all about PHP."
If you'd like to present at this pre-day, please contact Nick Hodge directly.
A tentative programme for this day exists off site.