Re: [UG-ADMINS] User Groups and php.net visability

Unless there's a compelling reason to make that a private repo, open source
and public? Just a thought.

Also, to reduce contention on the rows, better to expose a form for that
spreadsheet than the actual sheet itself. ;)

Great ideas, all. Take care we do not over-engineer this "hobby project"
however. We might end up with yet another PHP CMS...! :D
On Dec 5, 2013 8:04 AM, "Corey Ballou" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Everything mentioned thus far in the thread has been positive and I concur
> that a more formal relationship between PHP.net and PHP UG would be
> welcomed. I like Rich's addition for trying to also bring additional
> awareness to joind.in. I think it'd be a great addition to joind.in for
> maintaining speaker bios and we could pull in speaker bios/info from there.
> I'll admit I've been a bit lax on putting up my local meetup presentations
> on there these passed few years, so this would be a good kick in the pants.
>
> I think a great starter would be to create a github organization for PHPUG
> and follow up by inviting this mailing list at large so we can collaborate
> on projects. If need be, we could pool funds via WePay or equivalent to
> support a paid github account for private repositories. A bronze plan runs
> $25/mo for 10 private repos. I just created the github organization PHPUG
> and started an open Google Spreadsheet for everybody to enter their
> [email protected] email address, name, joind.in url, github
> username, and contact information. If there's already something like this
> out there, someone please chime in to share it. If not, here's the URL to
> enter your information. I'll get you added to the github organization with
> full privileges. If you feel the list is missing any useful information,
> please feel free to add.
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgVd5qYyeP8_
> dEtqRlNJWXN1QkpfUWttcmZ3TEpfcEE&usp=sharing
>
> Corey Ballou
> http://coreyballou.co
> @cballou
>
> On 12/5/13 7:20 AM, Rich Sage wrote:
>
>> I'm definitely up for this. Exposure of our group is something we have
>> trouble with at the moment, and anything that helps this is a thumbs-up
>> from me.
>>
>> Might be worth considering some sort of link with joind.in as well, for
>> presentation and speaker details?
>>
>> As with James, I'm happy to help out where I can :-)
>>
>> Rich
>> BrightonPHP organiser
>>
>>
>> On 5 December 2013 05:40, Hannes Magnusson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi all (cross posting ug-admin@ and php-webmaster@)
>>>
>>> I've been wondering lately what php.net can do to increase cooperation
>>> between php.net and the PHP User Groups and get stronger relationship
>>> with the community at large.
>>>
>>> Some things I've been thinking about:
>>>   - Printing "hey, did you know there is a PHP User Group meeting
>>> 4miles from your location tomorrow?" tips on php.net
>>>   - Full UG "registry"
>>>   - Better country/region/state/area listing of User Groups
>>>   - Improving UG visibility on our frontpage
>>>   - UG profile pages
>>>   - Presentation/speaker overview
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I see there are ~140 users on this (ug-admins@) list, I guess most of
>>> you run or at least are a part of PHP User Groups... is this something
>>> you guys are interested in?
>>> Do you have any other ideas and/or would be interested in working on
>>> this with me?
>>>
>>> -Hannes
>>>
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>>
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