Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Re: [PHP London-exec] [PHP-WEBMASTER] PHP UK Conference 2009 Call For Papers

Hannes Magnusson schreef:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:22, Matt Raines <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
>>
>>> We are constantly looking for volunteers. As you can see noone has stepped
>>> up to the plate. In fact, I haven't seen the slightest interest from anyone
>>> in the entire community to do any php.net work.
>> I wonder if there is scope for user groups to get involved here, in a
>> similar way to this year's successful TestFest event. We could organise an
>> event where a handful of interested people got together in a conference
>> room, at a pub with wifi, or at someone's house, and work together on a
>> self-contained update to the website.
> 
> How about doing us one better; give a talk on "how to help php.net"
> and a few hours "workshop" at php|london next year?
> 
> We are seriously in need of more people to participate in developing
> our websites, documenting (writing articles, FAQ, examples, upgrade
> guides, heck even our Docbook rendering engine needs more love (PHP
> based, of course)), SVN migration (including porting the perl scripts
> to PHP), news writing, verifying bugs...
> 
> Conference planners are always saying how their primary goal is to
> help the community yet they don't seem to care about _php.net_, "you
> people" could do so much more for the community if "you" wanted!
> 
> Yes. I am very frustrated person ;). I hate when people sell articles
> to magazines and corporate blogs and presentations to conferences
> about topic that php.net has not covered due to lack of personnel.
> Heck, some people have even committed features to php-src and then
> completely ignored the docs just to be able to sell articles to
> _bunch_ of magazines and blogs and have given multiple presentations
> about the topic for _years_.
> How exactly does that benefit the community? We have features which
> were introduced in PHP4 which are still not covered in our manual, but
> are very hot topic on all conferences.
> 
> I am sure if you really want to help out you could invite someone who
> actually does work _for_ the community, not against it.
> 
> -Hannes
> (p.s; Apparently my wording usually sounds harsh and people take it
> the wrong way. Don't get me wrong, it is supposed to be harsh ;) but I
> am a lovely guy and "don't mean anything by it", just trying to open
> peoples eyes) :)

Hi,

What are the requirments to work on stuff like the php.net website? I 
might be interesting in helping with it. I have nearly 8 years of php 
experience, and currently teammember at phpBB.com handeling all MOD 
validation there.

If there is anything I can do for php.net regarding the site please send 
me a email. As long its basic HTML with php I can do a lot.

Paul.