Watch for Zend, MySQL, Asterisk, PHP and Apache conferences coming to a city near you! Here’s my usual round up of fall conferences. There’s plenty to chose from, so be sure to hit your boss up for budget! But make sure you can also show how attending the conference will be beneficial to your company’s bottom line. Hint: it’s about learning new skills and evaluating open source technology that you can use on the job to save money. If you’re not familiar with Astricon, that’s the Asterisk conference for VOIP users and developers. -Zend conference 2008, Sept 15-18, Santa Clara, CA –Web 2.0 Expo, Sept 16-19, New York, NY –Astricon conference, Sept 23-25, Glendale AZ –MySQL European conferences, Oct 21, 23, Nov 19, Munich, London, Paris –Web 2.0 Expo Europe, Oct 21-23, Berlin –International PHP Conference, Oct 27-30, Rheingoldhall, Mainz –ApacheCon 2008, Nov 3-8, New Orleans I’m sure I’ve missed some conferences, so please add more in the comments… Open Source