Re: [UG-ADMINS] Mouseketeer Roll Call

Hi Tim

As said before, I'm Felix De Vliegher, and I'm Co-organizer (together  
with Michelangelo van Dam) for the Belgian PHP user group and  
community, called PHPBelgium. We're pretty new and started in april/ 
may this year but organized 2 meetups since and we're planning a  
bigger event within a few months.

Our first meeting was nothing much, with about 6 attendees. Not really  
a surprise if you notify everyone about 4 days earlier there's a  
meeting :-) We learned from our mistakes and announced the second  
meeting about a good month before the meeting date, and things were  
better: about 35 people showed up, which was pretty much above our  
expectations. We even managed to give away a free ticket to ZendCon,  
so that surprised everyone quite a lot :-) We're planning to continue  
this in a two-monthly schedule because so far the feedback has been  
great.

We're not asking for fees (yet) but pretty much pay every cost  
ourselves. For the bigger event, we're obviously looking for sponsors  
to take away the financial load. Our focus is primarily on  
professional and enterpise development, as we get asked about this  
quite a lot. There are plans to also organize a workshop day, we're  
open for everything.

You can find us here:
twitter: http://twitter.com/phpbelgium
web: http://www.phpbelgium.be
irc: #php_bnl on irc.freenode.net


Kind regards,
Felix


Op 10-sep-08, om 17:50 heeft Tim Stiles het volgende geschreven:

> 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 following  
> Saturday morning.
>
> No dues or meeting fees. (Our meeting space is graciously provided  
> by the Dallas/Richardson offices of Yahoo!).  We are not a certified  
> non-profit.
>
> Official Website: http://DallasPHP.org , legacy site at http://php.meetup.com/30/
>
> Normal meeting attendance is around 35, jumping up to 55 or more on  
> good topics.  Announcement list reaches almost 600.
>
> Focus is primarily on Professional Practices and Skills.  (The Q&A  
> leans more towards learning PHP and basic skills)
>
> Community support: Highly localized job board, and direct  
> coordination with local PHP employers (We also organized a local  
> mass certification test for the first Zend Certification.  28 local  
> ZFEs in one day!).
>
> Goals: We'd like to organize a mentoring program for new developers  
> and an internship route for local businesses, as well as a PHP  
> workshop event once or twice a year.  Ultimately, we want a PHP  
> conference in Dallas.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim Stiles,
> Co-Organizer, DallasPHP
> WatchMaker, Icomex.com
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Usergroup Coordination Mailing List (http://ug.php.net)
> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
>