Second step to create a regional PHP group

--000e0cd4a4ee5b43420471e836d5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, Once I have found some developers interested in creating a PHP group, what'= s the second step? What can I do to take some action to the group? I already created a mail list and a website to comunicate, but what to say there? I don't know if I'm making myself clear, but I wish to know what you have done when you first started a PHP User Group in you area, just as an idea t= o start thinking about it here. Thanks a lot, --- Rics http://www.pensari

PHP Groups wiki now on wiki.php.net

I just wanted to take a moment to let you know that we now have a namespace on the official PHP.net wiki: http://wiki.php.net/usergroups I've already put some content there, and I created a section for a PHP user group handbook that I'd like for us to work together to create: http://wiki.php.net/usergroups/handbook I think everyone has valuable experiences that we can draw from to work together to draft a good resource for those who are running user groups or looking to start one. If you'd like editing access to the usergroups namespace on the wiki, just let the list k

Sydney Php Group update

Hi all We had a great May meeting looking at "commercialisation of innovations" with approx. 25 in attendance at Mobile Messenger Sydney. Notes are up on the blog at sydphp.org if anyone is interested. The Planet format is starting to kick off although I'm having some trouble getting people to understand the concepts of aggregation/RSS etc (?!?) - not sure about technically more about wider exposure for aggregated blogs etc. Any thoughts or tips on how that can be sold ? Finally, if anyone has any tips on monetizing job ads/traffic from recruiters wishing to posts jobs to

European PHP TestFest

Hello everyone, This message is mainly meant for those European usergroups participating in the European TestFest on May 9th: It would be good if every usergroup, together with their mentor, would decide on an extention/functionality to focus on. This will prevent duplication of work by multiple people working on the same part of PHP and writing tests for the same functionality. I think it would be best if the part you will focus on is put on the testfest wiki page on wiki.php.net so that everyone knows what the other user groups are focussing on and can make their choice ac

Next Gen UGs and Social Networks

Hi all, I wanted to pick-up on some recent discussions related to google groups, et= c. Below I have some general thoughts and questions - interested in any fe= edback, thoughts, etc. As previously mentioned, NYPHP.org will start work on 3.0 of its site and l= ooking forward to sharing the platform with other groups. These questions/= feedback/etc will be used to develop an optimized and most useful platform.= And full disclosure, yes, at some point we might also sell the platform. Reasons for moving from existing forums/mailman/etc -- either forums or mailing lists were

Portland, OR US: Open Source Conference

--0016361e86c0325fe8046646621d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello All, Just wanted to put the word out that Portland is hosting an 100% volunteer run, non-profit Open Source conference this June: "Open Source Bridge" (osbridge). We are reaching out to user groups and providing information and discounts (including one free pass per group). I've append the boilerplate letter to groups below to give you all the pertinent detail. Also there is still time to submit a proposal; March 31 is the official deadline (but 'un-of

Refactoring the Vancouver PHP Association

I'm not sure if Zak Greant or any other representative from Vancouver PHP is on this mailing list. If they aren't, maybe someone can encourage them to join. :-) Nevertheless, Zak posted this to his blog, and I thought it was relevant to us: http://zak.greant.com/refactoring-the-vancouver-php-association In the post, he talks about how their members' interests and needs have been growing and evolving: "Over the last four or five years, we've seen the interests of the core participants growing broader and broader. Where PHP used to be the key tool in our toolbox, platform

PHPGroups.org back up!

I've got the old http://phpgroups.org/ site back up and running, along with the wiki at http://wiki.phpgroups.org/. The content that is currently on the wiki is what I had stored in my archived back-ups. It's likely out-of-date and needs to be cleaned up, and I don't know who the original authors were. Anyone who wants to volunteer to clean up the wiki and bring some organization to it is welcome to do so. :-) -- Ben Ramsey http://benramsey.com/

Publisher User Group Programs

Aaron Wormus asked me about this the other day, so I thought I'd post some of these to the list. In the near future (once the DNS gets sorted out for phpgroups.org), I'll put up a wiki where we can share this information. You may contact these publishers for review copies of their books: O'REILLY: http://ug.oreilly.com/ Contact: Marsee Henon, marsee@oreilly.com PEARSON/SAMS: http://www.informit.com/usergroups Contact: Heather Fox, heather.fox@pearson.com APRESS: http://www.apress.com/community/usergroup WROX: http://newsletter.wrox.com/optin.asp?sid=KG9PGAKSEE7XFV5D2

BugHuntDay initiative getting shape

--Apple-Mail-4-954265505 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi guys, We just want to let you know that our idea to launch a bug hunt day is getting shape and is ready to go. More information can be found on the http://bughuntday.org site, but we would like to know if other UG managers would like to participate in this initiative (crf: php test fest). Also, if you want to organize something with your local UG, send us a note and we'll put it online for you. Cheers, Michelangelo van Dam Co-fo

ZendCon Panel: Online Group List

I managed to listen to the download. ( First, I want to thank Chris Cornutt for representing DallasPHP on the panel. He did a great job, and I hope to do as well when I can attend ZendCon! ) First Suggestion: An Official Online Directory of User Groups I have never seen an online user group list that wasn't a "Fire and Forget" arrangement: Submit an entry, get a password and it is your responsibility to keep the entry current or the site owner's responsibility to clear out dead entries. The result is a too-large list full of outdated entries because registrants forg

Sydney PHP Group

--Boundary-00=_JGk0IBYbE9pORJD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi I'm one of the organisers of the Sydney (Australia) PHP Group. We currently have upwards of 30 members appearing at our monthly meetings, with innumerable lurkers on the forums (estimated at 900 excluding our friends the spammers). You can find us at http://sydphp.org There are currently 5 organisers of the group, so we can cover meetings when one or more of us is unavailable for a meeting. Like many groups, we started out on Meetup, although it took us about 6 mon

NYPHP

Hello all, good to see some activity coming back. Looking forward to hear = how we can work together. --- Hans Zaunere / Managing Member / New York PHP www.nyphp.org / www.nyphp.com

Hello from the Netherlands

Hi, A short hello from The Netherlands. After a long period of silence, we restarted the dutch usergroup this year. We participated in the PHP TestFest as a collaboration with phpBelgium, of which Felix already introduced himself. We are currently planning our first meeting in Amsterdam on september 23rd. For those that would like to shake hands, I'll be speaking at SymfonyCamp (this weekend) and IPC (end of october), and will also be attending FOWA. Sincerely, Stefan

Mouseketeer Roll Call

Hi, List! I'm interested in learning a little more about the various groups that are represented on this list, so if you'd like, please elaborate a little about your orgs! DallasPHP - Dallas, TX US (originated as the Dallas PHP/MySQL User Group) My name is Tim Stiles, Co-Organizer of DallasPHP (along with Jason Ragsdale) DallasPHP has been meeting in one form or another for almost 7 years. (Jason and I have been members for around 5 years) We have one official presentation a month (the second tuesday night of each month), and an informal Q & A session on the

Hi from Belgium

Hello all First off, great thing to move this list to php.net, I'm sure this will increase visibility for usergroups worldwide! I know this was definitely the case with me, as I didn't know about this list yet. I'm looking forward to seeing more collaboration between user groups as we all have the same intentions but lack a common platform to share the knowledge and help eachother in various parts. This leads me to another item: how do you see this mailing list (and initiative) as opposed to Lucas Smith EmPHPower initiative (http://emphpower.org/)? There are obvious

PHP Groups mailing list moves to php.net!

After a long hiatus and a very quiet mailing list and forum, I am delighted to announce that the main communication channel for PHP Groups is moving to the official PHP project at php.net! You may recall PHP Groups being created over a year ago for the purpose of networking together the leaders and organizers of PHP user groups around the world. <http://phpgroups.org/> I've been very bad about keeping things moving on this front, but I want to pick things back up and get us talking again. I also want to get us back on track for the mission of this group: "PHP Groups networks