Re: [UG-ADMINS] Introduce yourself!

Great, publicly call someone out in there to give a talk.  The worst they can say is no.  :-D   Let us know how that works out for you.

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On May 29, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Daniel Cousineau <[email protected]> wrote:

> Good call on the IRC, Dallas PHP about about 15-20 people hanging out in #dallasphp and it's fairly active during the day.
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> On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 1:34 PM, John Congdon wrote:
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>> At SDPHP I have a successful IRC channel #sdphp on freenode.  I have gotten good traction in there with 12-15 of us in there all the time.  
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>> With the activity in there, I have gotten lucky and have taken the approach of appointing people to give talks.  I found that asking for volunteers doesn't work, but telling someone they are it next month and asking for a topic has worked every time (twice) so far.  
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>> My suggestion, find the people you know are most active in the group, and strongly urge them to give a presentation.  Be encouraging and supportive.  They don't have to be full on hour long talks.  I find the ones that would only hit 30 minutes on their own tend to eat up time with great discussion during and afterwards.
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>> John Congdon
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>> On May 29, 2013, at 11:28 AM, Daniel Cousineau <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> The last-minute part can be normal, at least at DallasPHP it can be that way. The pool of people willing to talk can be very small some times so all 3 of us co-organizers (Chris Cornutt, Jake Smith, and myself) bite the bullet quite often and give the presentations, especially during the slow parts of the year.
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>>> I had a good rhythm going for a few months scheduling speakers well in advance but that involved me stretching way out into grabbing speakers from cities 2-3 hours away. I'm not familiar with the NW US but if Portland or Vancouver have semi-active PHPUGs, start a speaker share with them (if you haven't already).
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>>> Also we like to do a "Year In Review" social meeting in place of our regular meeting in December so bare minimum that knocks the number of presentations you need to schedule down to 11 ;)  
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>>> On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Jeremy Lindblom wrote:
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>>>> Hi! I just joined the mailing list today.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm Jeremy Lindblom. I work at Amazon Web Services on the AWS SDK for PHP.
>>>> As of about 2 months ago, I lead the Seattle PHP Meetup Group (
>>>> http://www.meetup.com/php-49). We have 1000+ signed up on Meetup.com (http://Meetup.com). About
>>>> 500-600 on our mailing list. About 100 ACTIVE people on the mailing list,
>>>> and Anywhere from 20-40 attendees each month to out meetups.
>>>> 
>>>> I am really looking for ANY advice, so if you have some links to general
>>>> guidance for running a group, that would be welcome.
>>>> 
>>>> More specifically, I would like some advice on establishing a good rhythm
>>>> of meetups. It seems like this past year, the meetups have all come
>>>> together almost at the last minute, and sometimes we have to change our
>>>> plans when we can't get a speaker. What have you done that has helped you
>>>> establish a good schedule?
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>>>> *Jeremy Lindblom*
>>>> PHP Software Development Engineer & Web Application Developer
>>>> Amazon Web Services – AWS SDK for PHP
>>>> @jeremeamia <https://twitter.com/jeremeamia> • https://github.com/jeremeamia
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>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Cal Evans <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
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>>>>> Someone asked me on twitter after I posted about this group so maybe it
>>>>> bears repeating.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you are new to this group. If you have joined but not yet introduced
>>>>> yourself. Please do so. Let us know who you are, what group you lead...and
>>>>> if you want to, what is the biggest problem you have?
>>>>> 
>>>>> The best conversations I've seen happen on this group happen when someone
>>>>> asks a question.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers!
>>>>> =C=
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