Am 05.12.13 06:40, schrieb Hannes Magnusson: > Hi all (cross posting ug-admin@ and php-webmaster@) > > I've been wondering lately what php.net can do to increase cooperation > between php.net and the PHP User Groups and get stronger relationship > with the community at large. > > Some things I've been thinking about: > - Printing "hey, did you know there is a PHP User Group meeting > 4miles from your location tomorrow?" tips on php.net > - Full UG "registry" > - Better country/region/state/area listing of User Groups > - Improving UG visibility on our frontpage > - UG profile pages > - Presentation/speaker overview > ... > > I see there are ~140 users on this (ug-admins@) list, I guess most of > you run or at least are a part of PHP User Groups... is this something > you guys are interested in? > Do you have any other ideas and/or would be interested in working on > this with me? > > -Hannes > Hi Hannes.
Long story short: Yes I'm interested in working on that with you! As some of the list-readers already know, there is a place called http://php.ug. It's an up-to-date (at least thats what I try) map containing all usergroups I know of. As I have the coordinates and (possibly) a link to an iCalendar-File of the groups events I could do the "hey, did you know there is a PHP User Group Meeting just 4 miles from your location tomorrow" stuff without problem. That actually was one of the ideas behind php.ug. Another idea Tobias Gies brought me up with was to implement a search for the nearest usergroup - eventually as an API-call. As it's a map, the country/region/state/area "listing" would also be possible based on the coordinates. Currently I'm working on an interface to promote new/edit existing usergroups via login with a social account already associated with the usergroup. SO one can promote her "own" usergroup and after a review process (which currently is myself looking whether the group exists and does some regular meetings) the group is then unlocked and will be available on the map. As usergroups can provide a link to an iCalendar-File I can output the usergroups calendar and events without the need for the usergroup to provide theses Event-dates on a different page and probably either forget to commit them or forget to inform us about changes. They simply have to change their own event-calendar. As I'm doing this as a pet-project currently and the original idea was to let this be done by the community, I welcome everyone to be part of it. And if there is consensus that the project should be associated with/added to/included into php.net then I'm happy to talk about it. Would be a shame though for the domain ;-) Regards Andreas PS: You can have a look at http://php.ug or when you are interested in the code on http://github.com/php-ug/php.ug -- ,,, (o o) +---------------------------------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-+ | Andreas Heigl | | mailto:andr...@heigl.org N 50°22'59.5" E 08°23'58" | | http://andreas.heigl.org http://hei.gl/wiFKy7 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | http://hei.gl/root-ca | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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