Michigan PHP users meeting update

Hello! Wanted to drop a quick line to the group here going over our first PHP users meeting in southeastern Michigan. I don't want to say 'only' 15 people showed up - for very little publicity (none!) I think that's a good start. We're tentatively planning to meet the 4th Thursday of every month (except this coming November, as it's a holiday). Brief overview 1. Food and drinks were provided (I think that got a lot of people in!) 2. We had brief intros from people and found quite a wide range of experiences. 3. We are formalizing plans for our next meeting to include an installation walkthrough (basic troubleshooting, etc) and a more advanced topic (probably PNG creation or something similar) 4. One of our engineers briefly described our current application approach, somewhat similar to servlets. Kinda above many people's heads, but we did get some good discussions going on that - especially from people familiar with MS technologies or Java throwing in their experiences. Good ideas generated! 5. Keith Elder from http://www.affordablecomputers.com demonstrated their site (built on PHP), and specifically how they publish and collect live pricing data with other sites (pretty cool stuff). Overall, it was a strong start for what we're hoping is adopted as a regular feature in the area. For those of you in the area who couldn't make it but would like to attend next month, please contact me and I'll send details - we're just outside Ann Arbor, Michigan, close to US23 and I94 (perhaps even Toledo people wouldn't mind coming up too?) -- ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961