Happy birthday PHPUGDO!
The local PHP usergroup turns 1. The actual annuary of the first meeting
is tomorrow, but since we meet every Thursday, we celebrate the birthday
today. Although I'm not a member of the first minute, I'm one of the
oldest members there. It's very nice to see, what we reached so far. The
group grew from a bunch of 4 people that started to meet, to being a real
user group by now. Our mailinglist counts 34 subscribers so far and the
meetings take place every week with always between 5 to 15 people. We
already had a bunch of presentation during our meetings, we had lots of
fun just sitting around and ranting about technical stuff and tend to meet
for hacking around PHP. But also beside these meetings, we have a fairly
good running ICR channel (#phpug on EUIRC) where usually 10-20 people are
in. It's very cool to have a bunch of geeks around oneself. Not only that
you always have cool ideas (of which you can realize about 5% in your
lifetime), but also that you can discuss technical decisions so easily and
can have input on all those problems you have.