Participation in the open source community and projects can really give a boost to your career.

A good way to measure the health of any given thing is to measure its activity (except bridges… I tend to get nervous when bridges start moving on their own). In this sense, PHP is very much alive and the community is showing it off with two fantastic events this fall that will light up Europe in a frenzy knowledge exchange and PHP-related festivities!

Fabien Potencier and other international speakers made their talks at phpDay 2010, which are now available online.

CMS Expo, held annually, is a conference that brings together representatives from prominent Open Source CMS systems along with domain experts and even some proprietary tool vendors.

Let’s take a look at the international speakers of 2010’s edition of the phpDay conference in Italy, and at the variety of covered topics.

If you don’t know Josh Holmes, come to TEK·X and meet him. Officially is a UX Architect Evangelist for Microsoft. Unofficially though, he is the Microsoft Ambassador to the PHP community. More than a few community members can credit Josh for helping them with problems or just finding answers and contacts within Microsoft.