Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:33 UTC
Last night, Costa Rica PHP held their first user group meeting. A whopping 37 developers attended! While I’m excited to see any new PHP user group form and be successful, I’m especially ecstatic about Costa Rica PHP because it’s headed up by two of my colleagues from Schematic: Pablo Viquez and Karolina Hidalgo.
It sounds like they have a very active and vibrant PHP developer community in Costa Rica, and they’ve found two very supportive universities that have offered to host their meetings and events. I wish that every PHP user group could find sponsors willing to provide computer labs and even bring in outside speakers!
Pablo writes the following about their first meeting:
I’m very pleased to announce that we had a great response from the PHP developers here in Costa Rica. We held our first meeting in the University of Costa Rica (UCR), with a total of 37 developers of different backgrounds and skills. At the end of the meeting everyone was very excited and happy with the initiative of the Costa Rica group, and willing to contribute.
We’ve received support from two universities who want to host our monthly meetings, they offered the opportunity to not just do monthly meetings but use their labs to have workshops and even offered the support to bring speakers from other countries.
Congratulations, Costa Rica PHP on a successful first meeting, and here’s to many more successful meetings!
Check out the Costa Rica PHP website at http://www.costaricaphp.org/.
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Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:55 UTC
So, I will once again find myself in New York City next week, and while I’m there, I’ll be attending New York PHP’s April meeting. If you’re in the neighborhood, drop by. Chris Shiflett will be presenting a talk entitled “Security 2.0.” I’ve seen a sneak peak of the title slide, and this talk will be highly informative—as usual—but this time there will be a twist on the sometimes dry topic of security. You’ll have to come see what I’m talking about; you’re bound to be entertained. I’m looking forward to it.
If you want to attend, be sure you RSVP or you might not be able to get in. Here are the details:
What: New York PHP
When: April 24, 6:30pm
Where: IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219
Who: Chris Shiflett is presenting on “Security 2.0”
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Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:33 UTC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Ben Ramsey
770-704-5279
Email: ben [at] phpgroups.org
Web site: www.phpgroups.org
Worldwide support network for PHP user groups launches
ATLANTA, Ga., Mar. 7, 2007 – PHP Groups, a worldwide network for PHP user groups, launched today with the intent to foster an open community for PHP user groups to share and exchange ideas and information. Membership is open to anyone working with a PHP user group or interested in starting one.
“This is a great opportunity for PHP user groups to become more aware of each other, find out what works and what doesn’t, and share ideas and, potentially, some resources. I think the overall PHP community will benefit from this kind of exchange at the grassroots level—the user groups,” said Ben Ramsey, the organizer of the Atlanta PHP user group and one of the founding members of PHP Groups.
Every month, PHP.net lists events for over fifty PHP user groups. However, there may be as many as 200 or more PHP user groups around the world. PHP Groups seeks to unite these user groups and provide a means for them to communicate with each other.
User groups are clubs focused on the use of a particular technology. PHP user groups focus on the PHP programming language and related technologies such as Linux, the Apache Web server, and the MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. The first PHP user group formed in Chicago in 1997.
At present, PHP Groups provides a mailing list where user group leaders and those interested may subscribe and take part in a dialog with other user groups. “I hope that part of our accomplishments will involve uniting and bringing together for an open dialog all of the PHP user groups across the world,” said Ramsey. “I hope this mailing list can get that conversation going.”
To subscribe to the PHP Groups mailing list, go to www.phpgroups.org.
About PHP Groups
PHP Groups networks PHP user groups into a tighter community, provides a means to share information and resources among its community members, and aids in the formation of new PHP user groups.
About PHP
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, or simply PHP, is a “widely-used general-purpose scripting language,” designed with the Internet in mind. Commonly implemented to manipulate databases and dynamic content on the server, PHP is also an indispensable local scripting tool. Delivering high performance, intuitive syntax, powerful structure, and a rich feature set, PHP puts ideas into action, both locally and on the Internet.
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Download a PDF version of this press release.
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Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:06 UTC
I’m pleased to announce the official Atlanta PHP Call for Proposals. If you’re going to be in the Atlanta area and would like to present at an Atlanta PHP meeting, then, by all means, please let me know!
From the official post at Atlanta PHP:
Atlanta PHP announces its official Call for Proposals!
Atlanta PHP meets on the first Thursday of every month at 7:00pm Eastern Time in midtown Atlanta. We seek a wide variety of presentation topics of interest to intermediate-to-advanced Web developers with a focus on PHP and related technologies. Atlanta PHP connects and unites PHP users across the Southeast, provides world-class support and resources to the community, and advocates the adoption of PHP to local, national, and international businesses.
If you will be in the Atlanta area on the first Thursday of a month and would like to present a PHP-related topic at an Atlanta PHP meeting, please contact Ben Ramsey (ben [at] atlphp.org) and include your talk title, brief synopsis of your talk, full contact information (including phone number), and desired meeting date.
At this time, we cannot provide a speaker compensation package, though this is being investigated for the future. If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities allowing Atlanta PHP to provide speaker compensation packages, please contact Ben Ramsey (ben [at] atlphp.org) for further details.
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