PHP North West 2011
7 - 9 Oct 2011 at Ramada Manchester Picadilly

I also felt it would have been better to focus on just 1 or, at most, 2 aspects of the improvements. With the time constraints making it impossible to go into any detail, it turned into what was really an overview.

The talk was delivered well and was interesting to learn about the project hierarchy in more detail.

I came along to this uncon set of talks mainly because I wanted to know more about PHP women.
The discussion was obviously useful for the group and it did give some idea about what you already do and how it's run and how to get involved.

Continuing the discussion about the site and the group...

I had heard about you before and had had a quick look at the website, but within my 10 second attention span (I'm a developer so it goes with the job ^^) it wasn't obvious what you do, how active PHP women is or an easy way to get involved or sign up for anything.

I think it would be useful to encourage people to be able to "half-signup" to the idea, lurk a bit and see what's going on and if it's really for them. A mailing list or frequent twitter updates is a good way to do this as I'm sure there are other people like me that see the PHP women site and then never get around to checking back on it!
The forum is a good idea but only really useful once people are already engaged with the group.

I would really like to see PHP women expand, I was surprised how few women there were at the conference, I really thought there would be more!
I will be in touch, I'd like to help even if it's just spreading the message :)

(Apologies for my essay)

It was an interesting talk and I thought Elizabeth was a great speaker. It was rushed but I think she did a good job of condensing it.

An interesting introduction to a good range of testing tools and methodologies, even though it was biased he did explain this at the start! More examples would've been useful.

Great talk, inspiring and a good speaker :)

This is a very good talk. Found interesting and straight forward and exactly what is relevant to the topic. Never got a chance to use behat before but I am very fanatic to use upcoming projects. And I am also looking forward to investigate more about the Phabric. :-D

What was covered was good and was delivered well, but seems there was maybe 50% too much content. I think all of the unit testing stuff could be cut out (since it isn't mentioned in the abstract and other talks covered testing), leaving more time for the examples that had to be skipped over at the end.

Good talk given by a confident speaker. The "wandering about" delivery style was good and bad, I liked the informality of it, but I'm not sure saying some of the talk while facing away from the audience is the best approach.

The overall message was great and one I strongly endorse - participation in communities and open source projects makes you a much better developer. Dovetails nicely with Saturday's keynote.

I blame the social for making me miss the bit of this talk I was most interested in: the Anti-CMS bit. Well delivered and interesting to see Wordpress being used to manage so much.