[UPHPU] PHP conference?

[Mac Newbold]

My partner pointed this out to me:

http://hades.phparch.com/ceres/public/tek/

http://hades.phparch.com/ceres/public/tek/page/index.php/cfp

Does anyone have any experiences with conferences like these? I've been to 
others, but never one primarily for developers. Does anyone have any 
thoughts about how worthwhile this might be?

We're considering sending in a few proposals, and I'd encourage others 
from UPHPU to consider doing the same. If our rankings in google are any 
indicator, we're no shabby PHP user group, so it would be really cool to 
have us represented there. And I know there are a bunch of people in UPHPU 
doing really cool stuff. (If anyone has suggestions of stuff they've heard 
me talk about that would make a good talk for one of these, I'm very open 
to suggestions.)

Plus, anyone speaking at the conference gets in free, a travel allowance, 
and a stipend. They have both 1-hour regular talks as well as 1-hour 
"Bring your own laptop" talks/tutorials, and regular "in-depth" tutorials 
(3-6 hours long).

What do you guys think about this? Is it likely to be a worthwhile thing, 
or is it just a cash-cow conference?

Thanks,
Mac

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