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

As you can all imagine, I just had to handle damage control on github. 
Here's my response for you Ben, I'm in the process of trying to remedy 
Github by removing organizational teams so notifications stop.

/Andreas is adding members from the document directly to 
http://github.com/php-ug to help with the existing http://php.ug site. 
As to avoid confusion, I've spun the PHPLeaders group as one which 
active PHP community leaders are members. The membership is not 
restricted to UG organizers, but is open to figures in the community 
that have been noticed as going out of their way to promote PHP. The 
purpose of the PHPLeaders group itself is to strengthen the ties among 
thought leaders and bring awareness to web-facing PHP community projects 
and initiatives. The goal is to increase participation/contributions to 
projects and issues deemed notable by leaders which would most greatly 
have a positive impact on the PHP community. Andreas' PHP.ug website is 
on the list as a notable project that needs help and for users to step 
in, for instance, so it's forked within the PHPLeaders organization for 
visibility. /

Hopefully this makes sense to everyone and hasn't degraded the ideation 
process going on in this thread. It's really a collaborative effort and 
I felt the need to


Corey Ballou
http://coreyballou.co
@cballou

On 12/5/13 12:11 PM, Ben Ramsey wrote:
> On Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Corey Ballou wrote:
>> Works for me Andreas :) I've renamed the group accordingly to PHPLeaders
>> as it's a more accurate representation of the group. If you take a peak,
>> you'll notice I started compiling worthwhile forks of repositories that
>> would directly benefit the PHP community in regards to awareness. If
>> anybody has suggestions for repositories to add, please chime in. I'm
>> considering adding frameworks, but I'm not sure if it'd bloat the and
>> derail from it's intentions. Specifically, things like framework
>> websites, wiki/docs, etc.
>>
>> https://github.com/PHPLeaders
> I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the GitHub organization. It 
> now has a lot of forks on it, and when looking through the members, 
> there are plenty of folks listed there who aren't on the spreadsheet 
> or who don't run a user group.
>
> I'm kind of worried this is something that will get bloated with 
> unrelated forks and with so many members that we forget the point. So, 
> what is the point? :-)
>
> -Ben
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