NYCPHP Meetup

[Scott Wolpow]

Running for the board is easy.
You just had to attend a number of past meetings or be a founder.
I for one would love to have you create that position, therefore I 
nominate you as Community Outreach person.
We need other people to step up and help.

Scott

On 9/27/2012 1:54 PM, Gary A. Mort wrote:
> JoomlaDay was a blast, I really enjoyed the sessions and all and 
> meeting the people.
>
> As such, it got my mental juices flowing on some projects I've thought 
> would be cool if they existed, but really need a community umbrella to 
> run them on....  since the projects all fall under "community 
> outreach" and Board elections are coming up soon, I was wondering if 
> there is a specific position for that?  Also I wanted to ask how I go 
> about running for election?
>
> I will admit, I haven't made it to enough meetings lately.  This has 
> nothing to do with the content of the meetings, and more due to 
> distance and expense.  Until this past year I lived up in Kingston 
> which was simply too far in general - now that I live in Beacon it's 
> much easier to make the meetings - I just didn't want to make the 
> financial commitment to get to them.  So, assuming all goes well, I'm 
> going to make that commitment for next year and make sure to come.
>
> One thing I'd like to see is our own user group extensions directory - 
> where members can post reviews of Joomla extensions they use.  One of 
> my original goals with the group was to learn what people in NYC were 
> using - not some incredibly large international extension directory 
> where the only users might be on another continent!
>
> Also, one thing that is bumming me is that while I met lots of 
> interesting people and there were discussions I'd love to follow up on 
> from JoomlaDay - I can only talk to the fraction I exchanged contact 
> data with.  Online forums for each of those sessions would be a great 
> way for people to reconnect and continue discussions.
>
> Just thought I'd ask what others are thinking and throw my hat into 
> the ring.
>
>
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