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Bring your own project (or help one of the others) and hang out with others interested in technology, open source & social media.

Amenez votre projet (ou aidez un des autres) et passez du bon temps en compagnie de gens intéressés à la technologie, le logiciel libre et les médias sociaux.

The PHP Quebec team is pleased to invite you to the codeFest PHP Quebec 3.0 that will be held in Montreal on May 2-3, 2009. A TestFest will be held simultaneously so join the effort of testing the php language itself.

The codeFest is a great opportunity to meet with peers PHP, Python, Ruby, Java developers and share knowledge and participate in the development of OpenSource software and social media.

Senior & Junior developers from the PHP, Python, Ruby, Java community are invited to join us for 2 days of optimization & Unit Testing of your favorite OpenSource project.

The codeFest 3.0 is sponsored by Conférence PHP Québec (external link)

& Microsoft Canada (external link)

. Microsoft is please to provide free development servers fully equipped with IIS, SQLServer to all those who wish to increase the portability of their favorite OpenSource software to the Windows environment. Plus if you submit your application to the Microsoft ThrownDown (external link)

contest you may be illegible to win a 10 000$ price!

For more details on this offer visit their website http://www.phponwindows.ca (external link)

Proposed Projects in 3.0:

MediaWiki
Drupal
WordPress
TikiWiki CMS/Groupware
BeWelcome
Habari
Anne G. wikigraphe
PHP Unit Tests
PHP Quebec Employment section
Laconica sera présent (ideas)
sux0r.org
Validation Testing Framework
Your project! (Contact us )

Goal:

Improve the performance of OpenSource projects
Improve code quality of OpenSource projects by writing unit tests
Improve the portability of OpenSource projects on the IIS Web Server and SQL Server
Improve the PHP language by writing unit tests

We are currently looking for:

1-2 sponsors to help cover expenses such as food and drinks (500$) contact no later than April 20.
Project leader for Drupal
Project leader for WordPress
Project leader for Typo3
Mentors for the testing of the PHP language

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