Re: [UG-ADMINS] Sydney PHP Group update

James, That sounds great. We are doing the same thing here in São Paulo, with the WP plugin agregating our community members bogs, we are just doing a few layout chenges to the blog so we can fit all that in there. We are still looking at places to have regular meetings, maybe yahoo is a great ideia around here as well. Congratz.. and keep on going with that. Rafael Machado Dohms http://www.rafaeldohms.com.br Sent from: São Paulo São Paulo Brazil. 2009/2/18 James Ellis <james.ellis@gmail.com> > Hi all > > Just a brief update to let you know what's happening at sydphp. You may > remember from a few months back that we'd considered shutting down the > forums > due to inactivity and from the fact that we didn't want to be just another > support forum for people - we've carried that out and have updated > sydphp.org > to just use wordpress with a planet plugin configured (Feed Wordpress). > Membership is still free and we currently have 3 volunteer organisers doing > the group organisation. > > We're now aggregating member blogs via RSS and ATOM, which gives us more of > a > community feel and have setup both twitter (sydphp) and a Google Groups > announce list (sydphp). > > I'd highly recommend going the planet route if you are wondering about > community, it's probably had the most positive feedback of all the changes. > > We've only had two members contact us about the loss of the forums, one of > those from Argentina (!?). > > Finally, we've been able to nail down a new meeting place at Yahoo!7 on the > harbour in Sydney, a great venue. In December we had nearly 100 people for > Sebastian Bergmann's pres on PHPUnit and we're expecting about 30 people > per > "normal" meeting, a 100% increase over same time last year. > > If anyone on the list is on their way to Sydney, please drop an email to > the > organisers mailbox at sydphp.org - you are welcome to attend or present at > a > meeting. > > Thanks > James > --- > sydphp.org organiser > > -- > Usergroup Coordination Mailing List (http://ug.php.net) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >