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

Hi All,

This is Ajinkya and would like to take this chance to introduce myself.
I am a PHP developer since last 9 years and currently work as a PHP
consultant.
My linked in profile is -
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ajinkya-nahar/8/404/77b

I am also organizer of local PHP meetup group in Pune, India -
http://www.meetup.com/PHP-Jagruti-Meetup-Group/

I have been following this mailing list since last few weeks now and loving
it as well.

I have subscribed to few sites like http://joind.in and
http://vimeo.com/to help develop my Speaker / Presentation skills :)

If I can be of any help to contribute to the PHP community feel free to
contact me via
skype - ajinkya.n
Twitter - https://twitter.com/ajinkyanahar
email - [email protected]

Thanks,
Ajinkya


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Lorna Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> For anyone who doesn't know me, I'm Lorna, project lead of
> joind.in(regular speaker, ex user group organiser and occasional
> conference
> organiser).  I wanted to chime in on a couple of points that came up,
> particularly in how joind.in relates to user groups rather than
> conferences
> (although Hannes, I would still love to facilitate a good way to give you
> our conference data for php.net).
>
> The approval process isn't going away any time soon (you should see what we
> don't approve, the majority of submissions don't make it to the site), but
> I would be more than happy to have more event approvers if you think it's
> taking too long, or you want to be able to approve your own events.  We do
> require a decent description as well just a place and time - but I think
> that works well because then people who find the event on joind.in (or via
> joind.in's data made available anywhere else) can find out enough
> information to realise they are welcome and should go along :)
>
> I can't imagine us adding recurring events anytime soon (although, you
> know, patches welcome!), but it seems to me like we need either a slightly
> different type of event or something else that makes it easier for user
> group organisers to make use of joind.in.  It's a community-built tool, so
> IMO it should change and adapt to keep pace with the community as it
> changes and adapts.  I know the pain of publishing the same information to
> multiple different outlets so I'm opening a task to create a new submission
> tool with "submit event from meetup" as a way of pulling some of that data
> across for the events that do use meetup - we can of course integrate any
> other tools that make sense (eventbrite?  I don't know any events locally
> that use meetup, in the UK it tends to be that events are more bootstrapped
> than sponsored).
>
> I love what's happening in this thread and if joind.in has data that
> should
> come in or go out to other systems or we can help in any way, just let us
> know.  We're in #joind.in on freenode, and if you hit
> http://joind.in/aboutthere are lots of other ways to reach us and all
> our various activities -
> or just email me direct.  I'm always happy to hear what does or does not
> work for your particular group or event.
>
> Regards
>
> Lorna
>
>
>
>
> On 5 December 2013 23:51, David Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I think what @ramsey mentioned earlier has been lost in all the meetoo's
> > and meetup.com vs joind.in debate:
> >
> > What is the point of all these forks in the PHPLeaders org?
> >
> > If it's to promote awareness of those PHP projects, I think you may be
> > doing it wrong. Good intent, sir, as with the addition of those other
> > luminaries, but maybe not the best execution.
> >
> > I just did a spring cleaning of my own Github acct and realized that
> > forking repos isn't necessarily the best way to promote a repo. It just
> > creates noise by having a potentially outdated fork sitting unattended in
> > an account or org. Unles I'm actively contributing to a repo that someone
> > else owns, I do not fork it. Unless there are contributions being made by
> > this org to, say, PHP-FIG, there's practically no reason to have a fork
> of
> > their work.
> >
> > Lemme say, I'm super-excited about the energy in this conversation and
> very
> > honored to be on the invite list. Let's just take some Baby Steps. Good
> > work, Team PHP...!
> >
> > David @ OrlandoPHP.org
> > On Dec 5, 2013 4:20 PM, "Ramon de la Fuente" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I’m re-sending my reply of this morning as it didn’t make the list for
> > > some reason:
> > >
> > > I think that is an *excellent* idea! I was a php.net visitor waaay
> > before
> > > I discovered user groups, so I think that could really get people to
> know
> > > about community much earlier in their careers. The manual pages are a
> > good
> > > candidate for a "did you know there’s a meetup" notice... (next stop:
> > > stackoverflow *grin*)
> > >
> > > ——
> > >
> > > Reading the rest of the thread, I can add that Meetup really worked
> > > (works) for us here in the Netherlands. But I also strongy agree it
> > should
> > > not be made a “standard” because it’s a paid service, not to mention
> they
> > > keep annoying Rafael Dohms by changing their API without consulting him
> > (so
> > > it’s not stable enough to be relied on).
> > > I’d say we choose a standard for input, and then export meetups from
> > > whatever source a particular group decides to use to the standard.
> > >
> > >
> > > Ramon
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This message was sent from my phone and might be a little brief.
> > >
> > > > On 5 dec. 2013, at 06:40, 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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Regards,
Ajinkya