Re: [UG-ADMINS] Re: ZendCon Panel and Next Steps

Michelangelo,

Yes PHP Classes has them.. but it does not check groups and is extremelly
outdated, so if we are moving to php.net we should move with something much
better.

once i;m doing this for the local groups, and as a distraction and ZF study,
i have no problem in doing it.

Rafael Machado Dohms
http://www.rafaeldohms.com.br


On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 17:44, Michelangelo van Dam <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hey Hi all,
>
> Maybe we should have a wiki set up for documenting the best ways in
> contacting PHP developers within a certain region, but in the mean time I
> would like to list our approaches that might inspire other user groups as
> well.
>
> Let me just say that PHPBelgium is the only user community in Belgium, so
> the resources listed here are for communicating people in a country, which
> might not be a solution for everyone.
>
>
>    - website with news and events
>    - meetup.com to manage our meetings (and provides a mailing list for
>    communicating)
>    - twitter.com to announce PHPBelgium novelties
>    - promoting PHPBelgium flyers through a nation wide chain of IT
>    specialized bookstore
>    - contacting other UG's (like Adobe, MySQL, ...) to announce our
>    activities
>    - having our meeting schedules taken in the newsletter of a nation wide
>    association for professional developers
>    - inviting IT press reporters to our meetings to discuss our objectives
>    - contacting local representatives of Zend Technologies, IBM, Sun
>    Microsystems, Microsoft and Adobe
>
>
> Besides these "formal" contact approaches, I visit as manny IT-related
> events and conferences mingle amongst the attendees to promote our causes.
>
> Referring to Rafael's suggestion of using maps, I know that PHPClasses and
> meetup.com use maps already... is there a way we can use (incorporate)
> these instead of re-inventing the wheel all over again ? I do agree with
> Rafael that these maps should move towards php.net (is this a possible
> solution ?).
>
> Best regards,
>
> *Michelangelo van Dam*
> *Zend Certified PHP Engineer*
> *
> *
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>
> On 25 Oct 2008, at 12:16, Rafael Dohms wrote:
>
> Hans,
> During our chat at ZendCon, we were talking about how to get new members
> for
> the groups, how to ge local PHPer on the local groups, so Mark Offered the
> Zend DB so we could reach all the PHP developers you have stored.
>
> This would mean getting them info on the closes group, or simply getting in
> touch with them all.
>
> The nature of this share was not described, and maybe Ramsey has a better
> ideia on how it should be.
>
> Should we elect someone to be the Zend representative and talk to them?
>
> As for the Maps:
>
> I'm currently working on this for the Brazilian community, so when it
> evolves i would like to take it to php.net. We have been discussing
> parameters and metrics to determine if a group is active automatically.
> I have incorporated some of the suggestions given here, but i've added a
> automatic layer on top of it, so that most of the time no human interaction
> will be needed, but we will still have the humam factor for lat case
> scenarios, before we pull the plug.
> I'll have more news on this as it evolves and will share with you the code
> for beta testing also.
>
> Cheers
>
> Rafael Machado Dohms
> http://www.rafaeldohms.com.br
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 14:14, Hans Zaunere <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I would like to get the ball rolling on some of those topics, like Zend
>
> offer of the PHP dev Database and the ideias on the php.net Maps to
>
> help people find groups in their areas.
>
>
> Sorry for coming into this discussion late, but could someone expand on
>
> what wants to be done and what's needed?  Seems as though we have more than
>
> enough skill sets among us to handle most anything.
>
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