Re: PHP User Group Directory

On 7/13/12 11:36 AM, Rafael Dohms wrote:
> Over the years UG lists have come and gone, but mostly gone...
>
> I had a project to make a directory that would "police itself" and try to
> filter out inactive user groups. But that also never made it into the open.
> We have already gone over this once but got torn into bits and no action
> came out of it. Also, is anyone doing this behind the scenes?

I'm not doing anything behind the scenes, but these things do come up 
from time to time. Corey and I recently discussed off-list the idea of 
having a Google Calendar that we give everyone on this list the 
permission to edit so we can at least be kept aware of all the UG events 
going on around the world. We haven't really done anything with it yet, 
though.

> So i'm going to be my usual stubborn self and try to get this going again.
> I want to code a simple version of this and throw it up, but i rather get
> it in the right place first instead of trying to fit into another place
> later.
>
> As UG admins, where do you think we should have this?
> - stand alone (like PHP the right way)
> - phpc website
> - php.net
> - attached to those but standalone
> - standalone with a kickass API
>
> What do you think?
> Depending on where it goes i, or we, can start it and kick it out very
> fast, but if its php.net there is more red-tape to go through.
>
> I kinda like the idea of a standalone url or subdomain of something with a
> API so that everyone else can use it, like Zend, EY, PHP.net.

I definitely like and agree with the idea, especially with having an API 
to allow others access to the information and the ability to keep it 
up-to-date.

We also have phpgroups.org. I would prefer either something at 
phpgroups.org or a subdomain on php.net (i.e. ug.php.net).

-Ben