Re: [UG-ADMINS] UG Promotional Idea

This is great, Eric! Thanks for sharing.

-Ben


On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Eric Poe <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was invited to set up a table for a LaunchCode KC
> <https://www.launchcode.org/communities/kansascity> event this evening. I
> was asked by the organizers if I wanted to have a table so I could talk to
> the CS50x students about our local PHP UG.
>
> I struggled over the weekend about what I could hand out given my budget of
> $0.00. Today, inspiration hit and I put together some resources on our
> website: http://kcpug.org/getting-started-with-php-in-kc. I then generated
> a QR code for the URL and printed out a single sheet with the QR code, the
> URL, and the contents of that page. I ended up not handing out anything
> that attendees would just throw away.
>
> I was much busier than I expected at this event and spoke for most of the
> time to folks who were interested in PHP (yay!) and knew something about
> PHP due to PSET 8 of CS50x
> <https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-harvardx-cs50x>
>  (YAYYYY!).
>
> Given the resource page that I quickly threw together, do you have any
> suggestions, recommendations, caveats? Does this look like the kind of
> thing you would want to provide for your potential and current UG members?
>
> http://kcpug.org/getting-started-with-php-in-kc
>
> Cheers,
> Eric
>