Quick Facts 2007 Conference

Thank you everybody who took part in the 2007 Vancouver PHP Conference

Total number of attendees who registered with us online in 2007 (to date): 227

Approximately 250 attendees total, when including speakers, volunteers, sponsors, and guests

Number of paying registrants who took advantage of our bargain early bird rate of $100: 93

Number of registrants from the Lower Mainland of BC: 143 or 63 %

Count by CDN Province AB: 4 or 1.76 % BC: 176 or 77.53 % ON: 4 or 1.76 %	Count by US State AZ: 1 or 0.44 % CA: 2 or 0.88 % GA: 1 or 0.44 % OR: 1 or 0.44 % PA: 1 or 0.44 % TX: 2 or 0.88 % WA: 30 or 13.22 %	Count by Country AU: 1 or 0.44 % CA: 184 or 81.06 % EG: 1 or 0.44 % GB: 1 or 0.44 % MX: 1 or 0.44 % SA: 1 or 0.44 % US: 38 or 16.74 %

Registrant count by City

Canada	USA	Other Places
Abbotsford: 2 Bowen Island: 1 Burnaby: 4 Calgary: 2 Canada: 1 Chilliwack: 2 Comox: 1 Coquitlam: 3 Courtenay: 1 Delta: 3 Denman Island: 1 Edmonton: 1 Gabriola: 1 Guelph: 1 Kamloops: 1 Kelowna: 1 Kingston: 2 Langley: 4 N Vancouver: 1 Nanaimo: 2 New Westminster: 4 North Vancouver: 4 Port Coquitlam: 2 Port Moody: 1 Powell River: 1 Richmond: 9 Salmo: 1 Sherwood Park: 1 Surrey: 13 Toronto: 1 Trail: 1 Vancouver: 93 Victoria: 13 Whistler: 1 White Rock: 4	Austin: 2 Bellingham: 2 Blaine: 1 El Cajon: 2 Ferndale: 1 Mount vernon: 1 Norcross: 1 Philadelphia: 1 Port Orchard: 1 Portland: 1 Redmond: 1 Seattle: 19 Tacoma: 4 Tempe: 1	Brisbane: 1 jeddah: 1 Maidenhead: 1 mansoura: 1 Mexico: 1

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Number of online registrants who completed our survey: 176, or 77.53 %

Registrant count by Skill Level in PHP

Expert: 54 or 23.79 %
Good: 84 or 37 %
Learner: 31 or 13.66 %
None: 1 or 0.44 %
Novice: 6 or 2.64 %
Four years or more: 97 or 42.73 %
One year or less: 23 or 10.13 %
Three years: 30 or 13.22 %
Two years: 24 or 10.57 %

Technologies used among survey respondents

MySQL users: 159, or 90.34 %
PEAR users: 70, or 39.77 %
phpMyAdmin users: 135, or 76.7 %
Middleware users: 14, or 7.95 %
Smarty users: 42, or 23.86 %
Free/OpenBSD or Linux users: 108, or 61.36 %
Apache users 155, or 88.07 %
Perl users 46, or 26.14 %
JSP users 16, or 9.09 %
Python users 18, or 10.23 %
Ruby users 17, or 9.66 %
Attendees with something else in their bag of tricks 26, or 14.77 %

Other skills mentioned

AdoDB, Backbase, CMS, custom MVC framework, DB2, Drupal, GTK(novice), ZEND Encoder(soon)., iis, Java, Javascript, ASP(X), MSSQL, LDAP, MSSQL, Mac OS X, Mac OS X, BBEdit, Most of these aren't really PHP technologies. :), Postgresql, PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, and PostgreSQL! Also phpPgAdmin., Symfony, Symfony (PHP5 MVC framework) http://www.symfony-project.com/, Ubuntu, VAst array of open source applications and libraries in c, java, shell scripting and so forth, Visual Basic, C++., WordPress, wordpress, drupal, css, XAMPP, Zend Platform, Zend Studio,

How did Online Registrants say they heard about our conference?

enternet search, ActiveState, Agentic is a sponsor, an Organizer, Audrey Foo, Big Blue and Cousins Computer Club, Victoria, Can't remember for sure -- I think it was just a link on php.net's home page., co-worker, Contacted to be speaker by Derin Tao., coworker, Digg.com, Email, Email from the organizers., email from you, Employer, Fellow employee, First through phpclasses.org, then through php.net., Friend, Friend/Co-worker - Mike Cantelon, Friend/colleague, Friends, From a friend, From another developer in the office, From my boss., from the php.net site, From the vancouver.php.net site, google, googled for PHP events around British columbia. , googling about drupal, Have attended it before - notified on mailing list., I have friends in high places, In researching sources of information about the LAMP stack., internet, It's in the air, Jim Oleary, Langara college php 1 and 2 courses. Tutor Andy Latter., Link on php.net, My friend Jim O'Leary is a presenter, Neo Era asked me to sign up, Official PHP site, Online, ONLINE-WEBSITE, Organization committee, PHP Classes - Weekly Newsletter, PHP Classes: Weekly newsletter, php project, php user group mailing list , PHP web site, PHP website, php.net, php.net and a BCIT class I'm taking plugged it as well, PHP.net and fellow programmers, php.net homepage, php.net site, php.net Website, phpclasses.org, reading onlamp.com, Research, School, See my Fearless Captain's entry., the website, Through a friend, Through php.net, Through php.net., Van PHP mailing, Vancouver PHP, Vancouver PHP Group, vancouver.php.net site, VanPHP UG, Via an email, Via Vancouver PHP web site & phpclasses.org, We program and host the registration site!, Web, Word of mouth, www.php.net, Zend, zend.com,