Grab an Early Bird ticket before prices go up
The sixth edition Longhorn PHP is just four weeks away, which means our Early Bird pricing is coming to a close. After tomorrow, Friday, September 26th at 11:59pm Central Time, prices will increase for both in-person and virtual tickets. So whether you're attending on your own or with your coworkers, purchase conference tickets now, then grab a hotel room if you're coming in from out of town to be just a few steps from the conference action.
By the way, all tickets come with access to the Longhorn PHP conference attendee portal, which includes live streams of all talks on Friday and Saturday, with the ability to play back a stream right after the talk concludes. So if you want to catch something you missed while watching live, time-shift because you're attending virtually from several time zones away, or had to pick between multiple great talks in the same time slot, we've got you covered.
Speaking of talks...
...we've filled in the final talk slot on our schedule, landing this year at 33 50-minute presentations spread across Friday and Saturday. Larry Garfield will be digging into the world of PHP attributes, showcasing a feature that landed in PHP 8.0 and has just gotten better since. We're thrilled to have this, as well as other talks highlighting building better software using both current and upcoming PHP features, on this year's schedule.
Sponsor shout-out, Laravel edition
Longhorn PHP wouldn't be possible without the generous support of sponsors in and near the PHP community, and this year we have Laravel returning as a Platinum sponsor. From the company's namesake framework itself to ecosystem components like Cloud, Forge, Nightwatch, and Nova, Laravel lets you build quickly, then run and debug your creation with confidence.
The PHP framework for web artisans
Add flair to our schedule with uncon and open spaces
On top of our scheduled lineup (and both in-person and online hallway tracks), we're continuing with a few parts of the Longhorn PHP lineup shaped by the folks who attend.
Alongside our three tracks of scheduled presentations on Friday and Saturday, we'll have a fourth track available for an unconference. Want to present on a topic, whether for fifteen minutes or fifty? Sign up day-of on our conveniently placed uncon whiteboard. Whether you're a first-time speaker or a hundredth-time veteran, we're looking forward to what y'all place onto that schedule.
We're also bringing back Open Spaces this year, with two sessions spread over Friday and Saturday. Contrasting with talks, tutorials, and keynotes from a single presenter, open spaces provide a venue for attendees to discuss topics that folks want to chat about, as determined by votes collected over the course of Friday afternoon. Virtual attendees can get in on the action as well by voting on topics on Discord, then hopping into a voice channel bridged to the in-person conference to contribute (or just lurk; we won't judge).
We hope you're as excited for this year's conference as we are. We'll see y'all in the next email (and hopefully in-person or online in four short weeks)...we've got one more exciting announcement to share soon.
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