NYPHP

Hello,

I run NYPHP and we're speaking to framework groups in order to loosely partner for cooperation and cross-pollination. While every group would remain it's own entity, whether part of a larger global community or not, the groups would also be NYPHP SIGs.

NYPHP has been around since 2001 and already cooperates with a number of other groups. We've seen the obvious growth and importance of various frameworks and can help groups in various ways (all free of course), including:

-- providing mailing lists (administered by whoever wants to)

-- server space

-- meeting space

-- speakers and presentations

-- organizational help/advice

-- visibility and listing on NYPHP.org as a SIG

-- sharing of knowledge, (if it's a PHP question, ask here, if it's a Drupal question, ask there, etc)

-- anything else people may want?

What does NYPHP want? Well, nothing really. Just to work with all the various framework communities out there to build a more coherent community for PHP overall. We would simply ask that this logo http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php be added somewhere. We'd also like to list your events, and would ask that you list our monthly events as well (which are always free).

In the end, the various frameworks all have their own communities already. But they all share a common core (PHP, et al) and working together in the past has been a good thing. So, we're making an effort to reach out to other similar groups to increase visibility and overall potential by cooperating, rather than there being a bunch of disjointed and monolithic groups.

I'm not clear who's decision this would actually be, but I wanted to get the word out and see where things go. Looking forward to some feedback.

Hans Zaunere, Managing Member, New York PHP