Every January, eZ Systems brings the members of the eZ Ecosystem together to recap the previous year and to look ahead into a new year.

On January 29, 2008, the day before its International Partner Conference, the creator of eZ Publish and eZ Components opens up its traditional developer day to the entire PHP community to discuss PHP within the enterprise landscape.

Please visit the events page for full details and for the event's agenda.

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The 2008 Winter CMS Expo is on Thursday, December 4th and Friday, December 5th. Pre-Conference Sessions are on Wednesday, December 3rd. Whether you're just starting out or you're at the leading edge, CMS Expo has a stellar line-up of Joomla experts coming to the Mile-High City just for you: Samantha Bovat, Steve Burge, Tom Canavan, Mike Carson, Victor Drover, Tom Elliott, Jen McKibben, Andrew Neale, Barrie North, Steve Pignataro, Azrul Rahim, Chris Rault and Bill Tomczak. You just won't find a better place for a meeting of the minds than at CMS Expo.

You're invited to Denver's historic Brown Palace Hotel on December 4th and 5th for the Winter CMS Expo. In the spotlight at the CMS Expo will be Joomla, one of the fastest-growing Open Source CMS solutions around. With millions of installations completed in less than three years since its launch onto the OS scene, Joomla continues to dominate in most arenas, including small- to mid-sized business, non-profits, education and even major municipal and government sectors.

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I spent some of my break time today reviewing the reviews of the Web Content 2008 conference in Chicago.  I didn't attend the conference but I have found some of the reviews inspiring enough in themselves.  You can find Seth Gottlieb's review here as well as Deane Barker's reviews here and there.

The Web Content 2008 - Chicago site is currently listing the various conference reviews on their own site.  Just check for the links under the "What People Are Saying About Web Content 2008" heading.

"eZ Conference 2007 took place on June 7th and 8th in Skien, Norway. There were 31 technical talks, case study presentations and workshops dealing with eZ Publish, eZ Components, PHP and more, as well as an exhibition with booths from partners and sponsors. eZ Awards 2007 was one of the highlights of the conference, recognizing key contributors to the eZ ecosystem over the past year. This report sums up all the exciting news and events from the conference."

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One day, one day...I pormise I will learn more about Ruby and the Raidant CMS.  Until then I'll just have to read about the excitement.  John Long writes:

I feel like this was the best of the Radiant presentations I have done to date...The presentation seems to have perked a lot of interest here at the conference. I’ve also spoken with many people who are already using Radiant on their own sites or are planning to use Radiant on a site in the near future. It’s always interesting to hear feedback and ideas about Radiant.

You can read more from Mr. Long through his post,   Ruby Conf Presentation.  He also provides a link to his presentation in PDF format.

"Good news! We have the final dates and location for the next Drupal conference (DrupalCon). It will take place on September 22nd to 23rd in Brussels (Belgium), alongside other fine events such as Euro OSCON 2006, GovCamp 2006 and BarCamp Brussels.

DrupalCon Brussels 2006 promises to be one of the most exciting DrupalCons ever. We can say that, because the first one was only one and a half years ago in Antwerp! The last event in Vancouver drew 150 Drupal participants amongst the OSCMS Summit attendees, with many packed sessions. Whether you are a Drupal professional or an enthusiastic user coming to find out more, we encourage you to join us in Brussels."

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Is your favorite female blogger missing this weekend? Perhaps she is at the second annual BlogHer conference in San Jose, California.

Who is really taking these ladies seriously? All you have to do is take a look at the far right column of BlogHer.com and see for yourself. They have about as many big name sponsors for their confereance as the Super Bowl does. That's American football's "World Cup" for those of you that live outside of the United States.

Thanks to the folks at pingVision, the BlogHer site is running a very nice Website using the Drupal content management system.

Congratulations to all those involved with the BlogHer conference!