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

Lorna is a top speaker and teacher. She didnt let her game drop in any way for this talk either. I think its an awesome way to get more people to join an open source project, and a way to recruit new people as you know the project lead's vision.

Great presenter and content, a nice insight into Facebook and big development teams.

This talk was slick. It was well delivered and amusing. Yes, it may have been a bit focused on one particular aspect but it's better to talk about something you know well than bluff your way through something you don't.

Very good talk.

The talk was well structured and a good introduction to ORMs and Doctrine. I appreciated the coverage of the traditional performance issues. The talk has inspired me to try out the project.

I'd never really heard of the PHPWomen's group before this discussion, and wasn't sure what to expect from it. But it was a discussion, not a talk. There was an attempt to draw people into conversation, but I'm not sure that it worked that well. Once people had started talking it seemed to snowball a bit, bit several members of the audience remained firmly silent throughout.

I think that the reason for this was that as the first posting pointed out, this was a cry for help. The group have reached that stage where they've got to a point and seem unable to go any further. Yet there is no clear destination of where they want to go.

Discussion focused around ideas of what they could do, more local meets, membership fees, etc, etc. But there is no clear target or reason for these. I personally would like to see this group succeed. The people involved have got their hearts in the right place, and that's the most important thing. But I think that they need to decide what the group is actually for. Not just a general idea, but a distinct statement of intent. Once they have decided upon this I think that they wouldn't need discussion groups as much given their own innate abilities, but will be able to progress and astound us all.

Loved Stefan's talk. all really good points. I only wished it had been videoed so we can get more people on the scene. I hope this infuses more people to give talks at phpnw user groups.

Stefan.. have you given this talk in english when its been videoed?

Made me feel bad for using google maps for phpnw11 site. (sorry) it was a nice clear and concise insight into OSM. Great to see how it was empowering people and how they were using it.

Elizabeth's talk was rushed as other people have pointed out, but I'm not so sure it lost too much. But I haven't seen her full talk.

From what was presented in such a short space of time it was obvious that she knew what she was talking about, and I'm sure given time would have been able to expand upon that with examples. I do hope I get to see that longer version.

I found this to be a particularly good talk, and a good speaker. would have been great to have had more time to cover some of the other topics.

A good overview for the project and some good features. The answer to the question about DI and unit testing must have been misunderstood I think.