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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100
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Happy birthday PHP UG DO!
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:Description:
    Today the PHP Usergroup Dortmund turns 2 years and I want to congratulate
    with this small post!

Today the `PHP Usergroup Dortmund`__ turns 2 years and I want to congratulate
with this small post!

.. __: http://phpugdo.de

We are looking back on 2 years of professional information exchange on PHP and
other geek topics, as well as on lots and lots of great fun. The past year was
especially moving for us. The usergroup constantly grew and we now have a
group of 5 people (`Tobi`__, `Kore`__, `Jakob`__, `Peter`__, `Manuel`__)
meeting on a weekly basis and a fluctuating group of about 20 poeple who turn
up irregularly from time to time. And with those guys we organized a lot of
great events in the last year, beside our regular meetings which mostly
consist of having some beer, hacking and chatting:

.. __: http://blog.struckmeier.name/
.. __: http://kore-nordmann.de
.. __: http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/
.. __: http://www.pawncase.de/
.. __: http://manuel-pichler.de/

On March 9th 2006 we `celebrated into the 1st birthday`__ of the usergroup. A
week later, we decided to make our own little `PHP sub conference`__ on the
`FrOSCon`__, the Free and OpenSource Conference in Bonn. On the same day, we
announced `the first talk for this year`__ in our usergroup, where I talked
about `eZ Components`__ and infected a lot of the groupies with an addiction
to them. By the end of may, we `finished our call for papers`__ for the PHP
room at the FrOSCon and started deciding on our agenda, which turned out `with
a lot of interessting talks`__ in mid June. At the end of this month the first
`FrOSCon conference took place`__ and the PHP room as well as the 3 talks Kore
and me gave, were a great success. As a result from this, we `started planning
the "PHP introduction workshop"`__ during July, which should be held at the
local university. After the summer whole, during September, we finished
planning this idea finally, which turned out to become a small 2 day
conference with 2 sessions tracks: `The PHP Weekender`__ was born. We
especially enjoyed this event and it was a `huge success`__. In November we
(somewhat unintended) celebrated Helloween and nominated Kore to be the
"`Hacking witch`__". Over the year border between 2006 and 2007 we had
`another series of talks`__, where up to 20 people turned up in the office of
`eZ Systems`__ to meet with us.

.. __: /opensource/blog/0430_happy_birthday_phpugdo.html
.. __: /opensource/blog/0440_php_at_froscon_call_for_papers.html
.. __: http://froscon.de
.. __: http://schlitt.info/applications/blog/index.php?/archives/439-eZ-components-in-Dortmund.html
.. __: http://ez.no/ezcomponents
.. __: /opensource/blog/0464_froscon_php_room_last_chance_for_papers.html
.. __: /opensource/blog/0467_php_at_froscon_program_available.html
.. __: /opensource/blog/0473_php_at_froscon_report.html
.. __: /opensource/blog/0477_phpugdo_plans_php_introduction_workshop.html
.. __: /opensource/blog/0491_phpugdo_proudly_presents_the_php_weekender.html
.. __: /opensource/blog/0497_a_great_success_php_weekender_day_1.html
.. __: /opensource/blog/0506_the_hacking_witch.html
.. __: /opensource/blog/0511_phpugdo_upcoming_talks.html
.. __: http://ez.no

Now that we turn 2, we have another series of talks upcoming. As `Kore already
announced`__, Jan Lenhardt will give 2 talks: One on "HTTP(S) load balancing
and high availability with Wackamole", which will take place next Thursday,
and on on "CouchDB - An alternative to MySQL" on the Thursday after that.

.. __: http://kore-nordmann.de/home/blog/jan_lehnardt_talking_at_php_usergroup_dortmund

So, my fellow PHP usergroupies, I'm looking forward to another year of great
fun with you all! :)


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Trackbacks
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- PHPUGDO 2nd anniversary on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:34:27 +0100 in Brainsugar
  
  Now we celebrate the second anniversary of the PHP Usergroup Dortmund. 2
  years of geeky and professional exchange, interresting talks, nice events
  like the php weekender and most important - the FRIENDSHIP.

  2 years ago when I was searching for a usergr


Comments
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- Tobias Struckmeier at Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:55:22 +0100

  And the birthday present is online too - http://phpugdo.de is relaunched.