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KCPUG needs suggestions for a new Saturday afternoon home

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KC PUG has seen many, many great conversations and presentations over the years.  But, it’s time to find us a more permanent home, and I could really use your help.

Things we are looking for:

  • Relaxed, inviting atmosphere for presentations and conversations.
  • Busy places are ok, but need to have a place we can schedule out or better–claim our time recurring slot.
  • Central location for at least Downtown KC, Lawrence, Leawood, Olathe, etc (preferably with high way access.
  • Air Conditioning (I know, right?) – again, comfortable environment
  • More “hangout” less “classroom” – But, a projector or a place to project are a must.
  • Great WiFi is a plus!
  • sponsored/office locations, will be fine too.

If you have any ideas, please discuss in the comments below or just send them from our meetup link below.

http://www.meetup.com/kcphpug/suggestion/

Ideas for KcPug.org?

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If all goes as planned, I’m going to do a little WordPress hacking on kcpug.org at Friday’s WordCamp hackathon.

At the moment I’m planning some meetup.com integrations.  Have an idea for the site?  Let me know in the comments.

April Meeting – A presentation AND a giveaway!

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In addition to the great people and discussions, we have added two great reasons why you should attend KC PUG this month!

First, you could win a book!  Chris Harjes (You may know him as The @grmpyprogrammer) has generously donated an electronic copy of his book “The Grumpy Programmer’s Guide to Building Testable Application in PHP” for one lucky attendee to win this month.  If you have read the PHPUnit documentation (or if you haven’t) and just don’t feel like you know where to start when testing, this may be the book for you.

Second (and even more awesome) our very own regular, John Kary @johnkary will be giving what promises to be a great talk on using git for development and collaborative workflows.  Joel is even letting us borrow his projector!  If you don’t know John, he is an experienced PHP developer from Lawrence, and long time git and symfony advocate.

Drop by, learn and share!

Saturday, April 21 @2:30pm
Blackdog Coffeehouse http://kcpug.org/meeting-location

 

Heads up…March meeting is “soft-cancelled”

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I’ve been putting off writing this all week….probably hoping to work something out.  I know already several of us aren’t going to make it this weekend, we don’t have “our room” scheduled at Black Dog this month, it’s going to be a beautiful day ….oh…AND it’s St. Patrick’s Day…in Kansas City..on a Saturday.

There are a ton of things to talk about.  PHP 5.4, new tips and tricks, app stack upgrades, github fun, or who knows what else would come up.

If you were thinking of coming, put a post here and see if anyone was going to join you.  Black Dog has a couple of big tables in the main area, so if you want to coordinate a meeting just let us all know.

Either way, I’ll see you all in April!

 

 

php-con West extends Early Bird to Oct. 10th!

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From our Friends at PHP{CON:

php-con West 2003’s early bird deadline has been extended till Friday, October 10th. It’s not too late to sign up tutorial, technical session or full conference packages at reduced fees. Register online at http://www.php-con.com or download and fax one of our registration PDFs.

** Additional Savings and Special Promotion **

Kansas City PHP User Group members also get an additional 10% off registration! Register online today!

Read on for more!!

– Just click on http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=52261

– Fill in your registration and payment information

– Select “PHP User Group” when asked “Which organization offered you this promotion?”

– Type in priority code: “kscphp” when prompted

** Why you need to be at php-con West 2003 **

Why is php-con the destination of choice for PHP and web developers? Because php-con is about three things: Community. Code. Solutions.

Our entire program is filled with speakers selected as much for their contributions to the community as for their expert knowledge of PHP. Joining us at php-con West 2003 are:

* Keynote Speakers Zeev Suraski of Zend Technologies and Author Sterling Hughes

* PostgreSQL Core Team member Josh Berkus

* Yahoo! PHP Guru Michael Radwin

* MySQL evangelist Zak Greant

* Apache.com’s Jim Winstead

* PHP.net’s James Cox

* PostNuke’s Vanessa Haakenson

* Industry experts George Schlossnagle, Wez Furlong and new speakers John Neil, Allie Micka, Frank Kromann, and Aaron Stone

* Authors Christian Wenz, John Coggeshall, Luke Welling and Laura Thomson

Whether you’re new to PHP or dig your hands into it everyday, this is where you want to be.

php-con West 2003: Community. Code. Solutions.

October 21- 24, 2003
Biltmore Hotel
Santa Clara, California
http://www.php-con.com

Online Registration opens for php-con West 2003, October 21-24, Santa Clara, California

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From our Friends at php{con:

php-con returns to the San Francisco Bay Area with new sessions, the gurus of PHP and a whole new day of PHP-intensive learning. Log on to http://www.php-con.com today for program details and online registration.

php-con West 2003: Community. Code. Solutions.

Why is php-con the destination of choice for PHP and web developers? Because php-con is about three things: Community. Code. Solutions.

Community. PHP developers all share a common goal: Getting the most out of the Web. And php-con is the where the PHP developer community comes together to advance that goal.

Code. php-con program packs in full-day tutorials, three tracks of technical sessions and the all-day developer marathon: The php-con Code Sprint. Write, debug and test your code along side PHP’s finest.

Solutions. php-con is where you will find everything you need related to robust, rapid applications development, standards and best practices: MySQL, PostgreSQL, XML, PEAR, Webservices, PHP-Gtk, PHP/GD, testing and debugging, performance tuning, and extending PHP.

Don’t wait to secure your space at php-con! Early Bird Registration discounts end on September 26, 2003. Register online today at http://www.php-con.com. Information on student discounts are available on our registration page.

** Information, Questions and Comments **

Want to stay on top of PHPCon news? Sign up for our php-con Announce List and get the latest information. Click on http://www.php-con.com and scroll down to our “php-con Announce List” section to subscribe. Or email Monica Ortiz at [email protected].