http://www.meetup.com is a website that has been around a couple of years at least, and provides lots of organization tips for groups interested in most subject and yes there is a whole series of them oriented around PHP, and I believe another around MySQL. Promote, promote, promote, seems to be the word(s) for the day. Warren Vail > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Shiflett [mailto:shiflett@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:58 AM > To: ceo@xxxxxxxxx; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: User Groups Mailing List > > > --- Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is there any interest in a PHP mailing list for User Groups? > > Yep. :-) > > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/phpm > > That list consists of several user group leaders, company > representatives (mainly book and magazine publishers), and > other notable community members. > > > I'm thinking topics along the lines of: > > Forming a User Group > > Promoting a User Group > > Tips&Tricks for increasing attendance and the quality of meetings > > > > Perhaps sharing/swapping resources, recommending speakers. > > > > Posts by experts who are traveling and want to hook up with a User > > Group to show off their latest PHP work/technology. > > > > I'd be happy to moderate such a list, and could find some > kind of host > > for it if PHP.net is not willing/suitable/able to do so. > > > > I know I've had many challenges to keep the Chicago User > Group going > > and suspect many people could benefit from this sort of list. > > Having another founder on the list would certainly be > helpful, if you're interested in contributing. Eventually, we > want to have much more than a mailing list, however - we'd > like to create a resource as useful as Perl Mongers. > > Chris > > ===== > Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ > > PHP Security - O'Reilly HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams > Coming Soon http://httphandbook.org/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
