October 25, 2007

PHPWomen quietly passes it’s 1 year birthday

Posted in News, Members, php at 10:13 pm by lig

Well maybe not so quietly. We hit our one year anniversary for PHPWomen while at Zend Con this year and had a great time. In that one year we have set up this site, been to 2 conferences sending 2 people who would not of normally been able to go, handed out t-shirts at those conferences, grown a member list of 250+ strong and made some really strong connections to the PHP Community as a whole. Not bad. Hopefully this next year will allow us to do even more, so wish us luck.

What started out as a call for the women in PHP to stand up and be noticed on Oct 8th, 2006 has grown into the current site and organization we now have. I want to send out a great big thanks to Elizabeth Naramore, Elizabeth Smith, Sara Golemon, Lorna Mitchell, and Kathy Reid for all the incredible help in building the community and site. I would also like to send a big thanks to all our booth babes - Cal Evans, Curt Zirzow, Chris Cornutt, Ben Ramsey, Paul Reinheimer, Derick Rethans, and Jay Pipes for wearing our shirts, talking to people, helping to promote our site/community at the various conferences and just being all around sex objects for us. Another big thanks has to go to Zend and PHPArchitect for donating passes to their conferences. Zend was also incredibly generous and give us a booth during Zend Con and helped us with cash to offset the cost of the t-shirts we gave out. Lastly I would like to thank the PHP Community as a whole. You have been great in supporting us and we couldn’t be here without you.

October 16, 2007

PHPWomen now in facebook

Posted in News, php at 10:28 pm by lig

OK - I finally broke down and made a facebook group for PHPWomen. Feel free to come and join us.

October 15, 2007

PHPW takes over Zend Con

Posted in News, php at 12:04 am by lig

Well maybe not officially but we did have incredible support during it. We managed to give away (almost) all of our t-shirts (~200) on the very first day of the conference (had about 20 left over that were quickly gone the next day) and caused a sea of purple every day afterwards. So if you see a purple shirt in a picture from the conference - it is ours! Yes!

Did learn a couple of things from this conference.

  • Need more small and medium sizes. Smalls were gone in under an hour and mediums weren’t that far behind it.
  • Guys kept requesting Booth Babe shirts… sorry those are only for those our official booth babes. if you want to volunteer to be a booth babe at a conference - let us know!
  • we did not realize how many bosses/coworkers would want shirts to take back for their female associates back at the office.

Here are a couple of links for pictures from the conf:

The booth:1 2 3

The Official Booth Babes: Cal Evans Ben Ramsey Curt Zirzow and Chris Cornutt Jay Pipes

Random pictures of our shirts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 (there are more if you care to look at the flickr stream)