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

Great presentation, with some seriously cool real world examples :)

Having seen OSM at previous events, I was curious about the real world applications and after seeing some of the sites where it is being used I think it might be time to switch map providers :-)

Superb inspirational keynote presentation, glad half of our team was there to watch this :)

Came in late, but enjoyed the topic and the content. Well discussed, and good answers to the questions at the end.

Perhaps too focused on the one very detailed (and not much used outside local/central government methodology), but an amusing discussion nontheless. With all the comments about the weird and arcane language of PM, I was considering all the weird and arcane language that we developers use. Nontheless, a good glimpse of the other side of the fence, and why we do need PMs to protect us from having to deal with the real powers at the top of the project tree.

A cry for help in how to reach a specific target audience... do people still use forums? My wife has just discovered forums, and is enthralled by this new form of communication on the internet... and she's from a technical IT background (albeit not an internet background).
The session didn't really consider or answer many of the questions listed in the outline above... I'd have found it more interesting if it had. As a developer in the second half of the century, in an industry that seems to focus on youth and the belief that old fogies don't understand technology at all; I'm half-wondering if PHP needs a PHP-Silver-Coders group.

I liked the talk although I was a little disappointed that it was the usual suspects that were covered. Having said that I understand why they were. The topics were well covered and it's good to be reminded of the security aspects. Thanks.

Too much content too quickly: squuzing an hours content into 15 minutes just doesn work. I'd heard so many good things about Elizabeth's talks that I was looking forward to this: I'm afraid I came away disappointed. I'm sure there were a lot of good points buried here, but the delivery ws just too fast to take anything in.

Useful when it described some of the work being done by the OSM group, but perhaps too disparaging of Google Maps. Sorry Derick: I know you have a strong bias, but a slightly more balanced comparison of the two data sets would have helped.
I felt the most interesting part of the talk was some of the uses that OSM dta is being put to, such as the disability access. I think if the talk had focused more on this type of usage of OSM data, rather than saying how restrictive Google Maps was, it would have been a better talk.... providing parctical, positive examples to demonstrate why we should use OSM is a far better argument against Google Maps than simply being disparaging of the latter.

Thanks for the talk. It's such a shame you had to fit so much information in such a short time slot. Given the title I was hoping for more information on using git in conjunction with subversion. I also thought the differences between 'svn add' and 'git add' was covered too quickly for what seemed like an important point when transitioning to git. Not knowing git I don't know if that's a true statement. I liked the overall presentation style and slides were appropriate.

Time was the limiting factor here... perhaps over a half-hour, it would have felt more useful, but it felt as though Stefan was too rushed in making his points without any opportunity to expand on them.