I think the idea of a Web Developers conference for Open Source
technologies is a good idea. ApacheCon was a good technical
conference, but not as much for the content providers as the
system providers.
The people that actually put a site together usually don't
care what the system is as long as it works. They are more
concerned about how to program with PHP or mod_perl+Embperl than
who to compile Apache -- that's someone else's job usually.
The conference that is being proposed would be for those folks
that develop the content, not run the systems. ApacheCon did
have some of this, but a lot was more basic than these people
would need -- for example, changes in the Apache API going to
2.0.
I sat next to a fellow ApacheCon attendee on the flight out of
Orlando. She thought a developers conference would be very good.
While she enjoyed ApacheCon, there wasn't enough for the developer
that doesn't need to worry about the underlying system.
Some of the technologies already mentioned - php, mod_perl,
various build-ons (Midgard, HTML::Mason, EmbPerl) - are good.
We might also want to consider adding such things as the Gimp
CVS, MySQL since these are also great Open Source (or nearly so)
products that can be used to build great websites. Maybe even
a vi or emacs class :)
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