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SymfonyCon 2013 was STUNNING!
SymfonyCon 2013
Finally I had some time to write about SymfonyCon.
The first SymfonyCon took place in Warsaw (December 10th–14th) and was held at the Westin Warsaw hotel.
This was my second PHP conference. Conferences are fantastic not only because of the talks and what you learn from them — but also it gives you the opportunity to meet the people that you usually follow on Twitter or GitHub.
The Conference
As an attendee, the schedule was very well planned and it was very hard — for me — to choose which track to go, since both had topics that I wanted to hear about. I could say something about each talk I attended but I do think the best place is to go to the joind.in page of the conference and see all the feedback from attendees and grab the slides until the videos are online in the SensioLabs channel on YouTube.
As a speaker it was an amazing experience — my talk was about How to build Console Applications. For me it was a pleasure to be part of it and also very rewarding.
The Hacking Day
Me and Luis Cordova helped Anne-Sophie on the organization of the Hacking Day. The official hour to start was at 10:00 AM but people started arriving before 9:00 AM. We had ~150 people hacking together and the end result was impressive — more than 25 PRs created! Thanks everyone who contributed!
The Socials
Speakers Dinner
No much to say. Great restaurant, fantastic people and delicious food!
Jeopardy
It was my first time, so I didn’t know what jeopardy was about. Basically it’s a quiz show where the presenter (Jeremy Mikola) picked some topics about the community, conference, etc and then ask the audience for players (about 6 people) and then the goal is for the players to guess what is the question instead of the answer. Was pretty fun — especially when the game crashes and no one got points on that round!
SensioLabs Insight Party
The party was in the Hotel and was cool to see everybody wearing the same t-shirts. The music was cool and we had free beer/wine and food! A big thanks to SensioLabs Insight for the awesome party!
Symfony AWARDS ceremony
IMO this is one of the best ways to recognize the people that contribute to the community and it was nice to see who the community picked for each category! You can see the list of the winners of the awards — community and business.
Karaoke
Jeremy Mikola was the man in charge to pick a bar with karaoke. He did it very well — besides the bar having all tables reserved, we got about ~40 people in it, it was packed but very funny.
Thanks
Thanks to SensioLabs team for the amazing conference and also for letting me be part of it. A special thanks to Anne-Sophie for her amazing work organizing the conference — you did it very well! Congrats.
Photos
Here is a list of places I found some pictures of the conference:
See you in Madrid!