10.15.07
PHPW takes over Zend Con
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 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)
chris said,
October 15, 2007 at 9:33 am
PHPWomen Purple > Yahoo Purple any day!
Jrf said,
October 16, 2007 at 9:43 am
Great news of course ! sorry I couldn’t be there.
But… there are some things I don’t get… must be me..
* what’s with all the guys wearing the phpwomen’s shirts ? (excepting the booth babes of course)
* I don’t get the “I
Ligaya Turmelle said,
October 16, 2007 at 10:20 am
jrf - why all the guys are wearing the t-shirts… to show support for us and any other coding women. and the “I <3 PHPwomen” is l33t speak for “I love PHPwomen” which can represent their wife/sister/girlfriend/daughter.
jrf said,
October 16, 2007 at 7:47 pm
@Lig: I obviously wasn’t in geek mode when I wrote my previous comment… big duh for me !!!
Christine said,
October 19, 2007 at 3:00 pm
That first picture was my boss - he’s been encouraging me to join up with PHP Women and brought me back a shirt.
Sara Golemon said,
October 21, 2007 at 12:11 am
Got a shirt? Got photos of folk’s in the shirt? Got any photo of Women at work with PHP?
http://www.flickr.com/groups/phpwomen/
Join the pool and post your photos!
Ligaya Turmelle said,
October 21, 2007 at 4:41 am
now if only we could get everyone elses pics from zend con tagged with it