Due to a slight mishap in my own coverage of the 2008 DCPHP Conference coverage, this writeup of Day 3 is going live long after my "Closing Thoughts". And by "slight mishap", I mean I forgot to write this one. ;)

Two weeks ago saw the third DCPHP Conference happen on George Washington University. This post covers the third and final day of the conference and was written after everything was done. Previous coverage is available here: 2008 DCPHP Conference - Day 1 and 2008 DCPHP Conference - Day 2.

This is part of my coverage of ZendCon07. If you'd like to read the entire coverage, it is available here: Day 0 - Tutorials, Day 1 - Part 1, Day 1 - Part 2, Day 2, and Day 3. In addition, my presentation from Day 1 is available here. This post will probably be updated once pictures are available from Flickr.

The opening keynote this morning was "Stay Free! How Open Source Affects Culture" from Corey Doctorow... without goggles and cape. His thesis revolved around the idea that geeks are remaking the world and that copying/sharing information is never going to be more difficult than it is now. He used numerous examples of how some information - such as the DVD key - seems like a good idea to protect but then you have to protect a random number... which supposedly is copyrighted/trade secret... but it's still a random number. The entire point of his presentation was that it's kind of odd/silly that something that you purchased - that you own - is limiting your abilities and keeping secrets from you. Even worse is the concept that your equipment and software is sharing information on you at the same time... It was a solid presentation but probably raised more questions than it answered.