Government-Organized PHP Seminar in France



Yesterday in Paris, I spoke in a one day seminar about PHP, that was organized by DGME, a French governmental agency. It was held in a conference room in one of the Minefi (Ministry of Finance) buildings, no less. Most of the attendees were coming from various governmental agencies and ministries, to learn more about PHP success stories and best practices. Presenters came from Oracle, alapage.com, DGME, Zend and others.


The seminar was the first seminar of its kind in France, and to the best of my knowledge - it was the first one of its kind around the world as well. Personally, I found it quite amazing - although I guess we'll have to start getting used to PHP being regularly adopted by an ever-growing number of entities, for which it used to be completely off-limits until not too long ago. At long last, the perception about PHP is finally showing some true signs of changing, and finally synchronizing with reality; People and organizations perceiving PHP for what it is - the best Web development platform out there.

I believe this is just the beginning - and we'll see more events like this in France and elsewhere, and more and more people attending them.
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  1. PHP conference, Paris, June 19th 2006

    I'm a software architect working at the DGME, a french government agency dedicated to e-governement. I'm organizing a php conference at Paris. The program is here (in french) and the slides will also be available there from 2006/06/20 on. Omar...

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  1. perrick says:
    #1 2006-06-20 18:47

    And I'm looking forward to seeing all the WS-* stuff included into PHP... It looks very promising ! Keep on the good work.

  2. Philippe Gamache says:
    #2 2006-06-21 00:18

    Here we have one call "CLLAP - Conférence sur les Logiciels Libres et les Administrations Publiques" for Conference for FLOSS and Publics administrations. This year was the second, and PHP was well represented. PHP Québec always go those conference and seminar. There is the GTEK for Technology and the Gouvernment, but it's more general.

  3. MB says:
    #3 2006-06-21 08:32

    Hi,
    I'm the guy who organized that conference ;-)

    The first reactions of the attendees are very positive. I think we can consider this conference as a beginning, and I hope to set up another one with more french administrations invovlved.

    Thanks again for participating.


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