Re: Lebanon PHP community

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 00:37, Chawki Matta <chawkimatta@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear, > My name is Chawki MATTA a web developer from lebanon. > I and a group of developers in my network are willing to create an official > PHP community for Lebanon where we can unite our efforts to spread the > language and provide help for the php developers in our country since its > becoming more and more popular over here. > The main goal of the community will be to create new opportunities for > developers and to create a place where all developers can share ideas for > improving and pushing the knowledge in PHP to the next level... > > My question here is that what are the procedures to create an official > community holding the name of PHP Lebanon? There aren't really any "official user groups". Most user groups start out as couple of guys at a bar, drunk, and somehow PHP gets injected into the discussion. The these guys invite couple of other guys few weeks later, and those then in turn invite more.. and then you have a group of people and to get things organized someone buys a domain and publishes a meetup schedule and discussion topics :) That being said, we are attempting to aggregate all known active usergroups so we can publish a proper list, so I suppose that list will turn into "semi official user groups", but like I said, there is no official creation or anything like that. -Hannes