Written after the PHP global developer Conference

In preparation for more than half of the PHP developers conference last weekend finally ended, according to the background of the pigeons, nearly 1000 people signed in to participate in the conference. From the circle of friends to see the feedback, it is very good, or even beyond the expectations of our meeting at that time. In fact, since we began to prepare for this meeting, many friends began to question whether it is really useful to participate in various technical conferences, and we have actually seen a lot of technical meetings in recent times, and there are many parallel imports, obviously wasting our time and energy. But fortunately, through some methods of innovation, this time the PHP conference did not encounter a similar spit groove, the guests of the quality of the sharing is almost praise.

Because I really dare not throw in, so from the beginning and the old high conspiracy devlink this matter, to prepare for the PHP conference, almost only Shu Qi classmate a person in full-time work, from the contact venue to confirm the ticket, from the coordination instructor to the communication agenda, from the implementation of exhibitors to print the exhibition board, almost all of them with a designer in the , I and Lao Gao are just part-time help to get a bottom corner of things. After knowing the details, all the lecturers and exhibitors were surprised, yes, even we were surprised.

will be over, always should write a summary, but also for the preparation of technical meetings, or want to participate in technical meetings of the students to share some experience. Dogma things say too much feel useless, so want to write some wonderful drip.

a reliable producer.

The producer system is an innovation of devlink, our offline meeting is only for one subject direction or one language at a time, because as a sponsor, it is impossible to be an expert in every field, in this case, how to control the quality of the topic of sharing has become a task that we can not accomplish ourselves. Therefore, we invented the producer system, each meeting will invite a producer to help you screen topics, design topic distribution and communication Instructor's direction of speech.

The producer, of course, must also be PHP7 's core developer, Brother Bird. Ever since let old high bribe a lamb platoon, bird elder brother dozen Chicken blood general of help busy--of course not because of lamb platoon, Bird elder brother really want to through activity, for PHP discovery and training successor talent. Within a few months, bird brother almost every day is in the middle of the night to help examining, we also according to the opinion of Bird brother declined a few relative "water" share, can say, no bird brother's strong assistance, this sharing quality at all no way to reach this height.

Next, DevLink will also host different areas of the sharing meeting, we also use the producer system, to find the industry's cattle, leaders to help us select topics and guests, to ensure that each sharing is valuable, meaningful and helpful.

Our dedicated Lecturers

Picture of Hantian Teacher

Picture of Yi LV Teacher

The picture is Zhou Yue Autumn teacher

Picture of Lo Cheng teacher

Only bird brother's screening, without the effort of the instructor, obviously will not be born excellent sharing content. Lecturers are the industry's cattle and technical experts, busy work is their normal, but everyone can in the work of the PHP conference this matter at heart, no matter how late, will insist on communicating with US topic. Even the last minute before the start of the conference, some lecturers are revising their PPT to give you a real dry meal, and in fact, they did.

None of the speeches at the meeting was a topic that had been talked about, and all of the PPT was prepared by the lecturer for the meeting, with a maximum of dozens of PPT prepared by one of the lecturers, and almost every PPT had code and examples, and the effort was hard to imagine.

Brother Bird also deliberately arranged a mutual confirmation or a method of different implementation path of the hidden combination. Although this will have a very good sharing effect, but the pressure of the lecturers is also huge, near the meeting of the one months, many lecturers such as Hantian teacher, Yi Lv teacher, Ye Jinlong teacher almost spare time to devote to the devlink, really make us moved unceasingly.

And the result of the effort, the lecturer's wonderful speech so that we can not bear to leave the half-moment, the big screen constantly has the audience asked "urine point", which I have not seen in various meetings of the wonders.

Innovation in Methodology

This conference we made a small innovation, each participant can be given to TA believe that the instructor to reward, we took out the fare of 10% directly into the audience's balance, the balance after use can also be directly paid to reward. We insist that good content must be positively motivated and rewarded, and that although the salaries of lecturers are not low, we believe that these rewards may not be enough for them to spend their time preparing content these days, but reward is a recognition and encouragement.

After the statistics, in addition to the balance of the reward, the average audience paid more than 30 pieces of real money to support the lecturer, although add up not a lot of cash, but the value of the content has been a certain degree of recognition, the lecturer is not free to contribute time and even money to participate in various technology sharing, is also a good start and demonstration.

Sharing is not equal to free, the value of sharing must be recognized in order to continue to harvest more quality content, I hope this positive feedback can always be in the devlink inside the existence and flourish.

Inspirational and special developers

The first day of registration, our volunteers came to me, said found a blind friend to attend the meeting, quickly past looked, found that the blind programmer from Shandong Sunny, his story I have seen in some media, but the first time to see himself, or very surprised, especially learned that he is his own ticket, When I came to Beijing on the train, I admired him, and hurried to volunteer to take him to the front of the most convenient place to sit down.

The first day of the afternoon, at the end of the bird Brother sharing, specifically with bird Brother to the special developer invited to the stage to do a simple impromptu sharing, sunny on the IT system barrier-free, Web accessibility of the contribution and ideas very much, also do a lot of solid work, Including the use of PHP to write a lot to help blind people understand the Internet program. He appealed to every developer to pay attention to the site's barrier-free design, the blind group in China has 700~800 million of the scale, and serve them well, not only out of humane care, but also a huge market.

The blind Programmer's share of the shock to everyone is no less than the moment the bird brother on the stage to share. Quote a friend to the big screen: if even the blind can write code to adjust the bug, but also can do very well, then we have any reason not to try?

the father of the low-key PHP

The highlight of the Conference, is clearly the founder of Php Rasmus Lerdorf, according to many students, because Rasmus, they have to earn a livelihood, so when the divine figure came to the scene, we all boil up, just group photos of the team almost lined up outside the venue, I am afraid Rasmus is the first time to see this battle, the face of the surprise Rose Red.

Rasmus's sharing theme is still around PHP7 's performance improvement and smooth upgrade techniques, although similar topics have been discussed by other guests, but it is still a different feeling to hear the founders tell the story. Because the topic is too professional, in a moment please not to the same translation, so the venue did not provide the same transmission equipment, but fortunately, the language is common language, PPT on a large number of code, has been enough to let everyone know Rasmus want to express the meaning of.

The final question and answer session, but also let everyone appreciate the PHP father's low-key and pragmatic, PHP is only a tool to solve the problem, PHP is not one of his private property but belongs to everyone, thanks to PHP7 core developers to complete such a major version of the update, every word can not see pride and arrogance, Only modesty and discreet understatement. Brother Bird also explained that today the PHP community relatively good atmosphere and solid work style is from Rasmus low-key pragmatic people.

As the organizer, we prepared a very "China" gift for Rasmus--------------------------------------------------

the inspiring Volunteers

Due to the fact that there is not enough manpower, especially in all aspects of the day of activity, people need to be controlled, although the old high mobilized all the company's colleagues to help, but still shortage of manpower. Helpless in the group inside to solicit volunteers to help work. Ben didn't have much hope for the volunteer's contribution, just hope that we can take the hand is enough. But I did not think that we really give force, two days down, whether it is responsible for maintaining the site order, or is responsible for the registration, or is responsible for the translation of Rasmus, volunteers almost no time to sit down to rest, drink water, everyone in the busy before the help we coordinate various things.

These volunteers have traveled from thousands of miles from the train came, some three o'clock in the evening from Tianjin, there are many local student friends, the early morning to get up to the venue, at night to finish the scene back to the place is midnight, two days of work is really hard, but no one is called tired, but no one is lazy, Who says it's not reliable?

shortcomings and deficiencies

Shortcomings and deficiencies still have a lot of, for example, because in the budget is difficult to find all sides meet the requirements of the place, the venue this arrangement is a bit small, screen back almost unclear. and air conditioning seems to be insufficient to meet the use, in the case of many people, the middle of the reunion feel very hot very hot. and exhibitors side, exhibition board, Booth also has a lot of shortcomings. But fortunately, everyone is very tolerant of us, not to be spit groove.

We are striving to avoid these problems at the next meeting, and I cannot agree with a friend who mentions at least tens of thousands of per cent of the organizers of this meeting on Weibo. We do not talk about "crowdfunding" to the rhetoric of the meeting, leaving the profit is inevitable, otherwise staff do not take wages hexibeifeng go? But in addition to paying everyone's wages, the instructor's toll accommodation, Rasmus's airfare hotel and venue fees, the remaining profit is really not enough for each of the tens of thousands of. Otherwise, the friend who said this will ask you to do it next time?

the next thing to do

DevLink obviously not specifically to do the PHP conference, and then we will be in a lot of sub-development, technical areas to organize such sharing activities. Not just offline activities, but also on-line activities, but in either form or language, we will follow the following principles:

• We believe that content is valuable and that all sharing must be attended (offline) or paid (online) to be seen;
• Let the technical conference return to its original meaning, content quality is the first, not to obtain sponsorship fees and add worthless share;
• Affirming the work of the lecturer through various forms, and paying attention to the positive feedback to the content creator;

written in the last

DevLink is a community of front-line developers, both offline and online, and we want DevLink to connect to each developer as it is named. No matter the big God ox person, or the ordinary small shrimp, can through the DevLink equal Exchange, the sharing technical experience, all can through DevLink continues to grow.

DevLink is not an exhibition agent, not a media, but a community, is a dedicated to developers to establish the "private plots", we recognize the value of content, but does not mean the mercenary, we promote the connection between developers, does not mean that business can be pervasive. This is our original intention of founding DevLink, and the expectations of every lecturer and developer.

DevLink things just do a beginning, there are more wonderful waiting for everyone, although the manpower is limited, but this year we will spare no effort to speed up, and strive to quickly put this technical person's utopia to build up. Success or failure is a real good thing for developers.

Look forward to it.

Finally, the PPT of this conference can be downloaded here: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1pLajmm3

We work with Vphotos in this conference, all the photos on the scene will be shared on the internet in real time, if you have not downloaded your photos, or want to review the event, please visit these two Web sites to see:

Http://t.cn/RqD8Typ

Http://t.cn/RqeP7y9

Video is being collated, edited, released later, according to the principle of DevLink, video only attendees can watch for free.

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