Singapore PHP User Group - 10th Anniversary Meetup

Presented at the Singapore PHP User Group

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1. 1 0 T H A N N I V E R S A RY
   S I N G A P O R E P H P U S E R G R O U P
   

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2. I N T H E B E G I N N I N G …
   • As a lone developer in my company, i was feeling the
   strain of working alone.
   • Needed support group.
   • Share knowledge and grow my craft.
   • Heard of similar programming “user groups” -
   Singapore Java User Group and Singapore Ruby
   Brigade
   

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3. I N T H E B E G I N N I N G …
   • We are not the first PHP User Group in Singapore.
   • There were 2 earlier efforts to start a PHP User Group.
   Both were inactive by end-2006.
   • Created the Meetup.com group on 28 Dec 2006.
   • 11 Jan 2007 - First Meetup of the Singapore PHP User
   Group at Brewerkz.
   • Informal chit chat with a handful of PHP Professionals.
   

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5. E A R LY T R O U B L E S …
   • No traction and not many people were using
   Meetup.com to find and meet people. Many months
   without meetups.
   • The tech startup community was just getting more active
   in Singapore around 2007.
   • E27 organised the first Facebook Developer Garage on
   24 Oct 2007.
   • Since Facebook was written in PHP, I felt I should leverage
   on that - created a FB Group and printed name cards.
   

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6. E A R LY W I N S …
   • Made an announcement at the end of the Facebook
   Developer Garage about our new Facebook Group.
   • The membership number skyrocketed.
   • I decided to do another meetup in Nov 2007 - this
   time organised as a Facebook Event.
   • Created event. No venue. RSVP numbers hits 40!
   • Panic! No venue!
   

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7. E A R LY W I N S …
   • Friends from the Singapore Ruby Brigade introduced
   me to Mr Lee Yeow Leong, a SIS lecturer at SMU.
   • Hooked me up with Object Oriented Programming
   Society in SMU, who will host us.
   • 3 speakers confirmed.
   • Topics for beginners, professionals and business.
   

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8. November Meet-Up:
   Take The Dive Into PHP
   Michael Cheng
   PHP 101: PHP
   Language
   Fundamentals
   Raymond Ng, CEO,
   Occamlogic Consulting
   PHP & Your Business
   Chua U-Zyn,
   CTO, Widgeo.us /
   Founder, Ping.sg
   Security in PHP
   Wednesday, 14 November 2007
   8pm (registration starts at 7:30pm)
   SMU, School of Information Systems
   Website:
   http://www.php.com.sg
   Community Wiki:
   http://wiki.php.com.sg
   Event Wiki:
   http://wiki.php.com.sg/index.php?title=November_2007_Meetup
   Facebook Group:
   http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14934950373
   Meetup.com PHP Group:
   http://php.meetup.com/362/
   Free of Charge!
   (Just BYOL - Bring Your Own Laptop)
   Speakers:
   

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9. F I R S T P H P M E E T U P AT S M U
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14. E X P E R I M E N T W I T H F O R M AT
    • 3 topics in a single track meet up was tedious.
    • We ended the meet up almost at 10pm.
    • 2nd meet up we experimented with having 2 tracks.
    • Venue woes
    • SMU was having term break and the central aircon turns
    off at 7pm.
    • Found a new location at NUS Extension at Park Mall
    

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15. F I R S T 2 T R A C K M E E T U P
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19. M O R E E X P E R I M E N T S …
    • 2 track meetups are hard.
    • Everyone wants to be in the other track.
    • Revert to single track and 2 speakers only.
    • Cater to Beginners + Professionals.
    • Business folks (looking to hire) can take care of
    themselves as long as we have networking
    opportunities (e.g. tea break).
    

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20. 2 N D FA C E B O O K D E V E L O P E R G A R A G E
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24. A B O U T R U B Y A N D P Y T H O N
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26. F I R S T T I M E AT YA H O O !
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29. S T U D E N T S AT M E E T U P !
    S T U D E N T S F R O M N U S H I G H T S C H O O L
    

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30. P H P C E R T I F I C AT I O N C O U R S E
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32. M E E T U P AT O R A C L E
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34. L A S T P H P C E R T I F I C AT I O N C L A S S
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35. H I AT U S …
    • 2010 - 2011 - Temporarily stopped PHP Meetups
    • Startup life is hard.
    • Restarted in 2012 - Focus on web development topics
    

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36. B A S I C P H P W O R K S H O P S
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37. M AT T M U L L E N W E G L I V E !
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40. O R G A N I S I N G T E A M
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41. – M I C H A E L C H E N G
    “At the end of the Matt Mullenweg Live event, I
    knew I have a team of people that I could count on
    to do something great together… 

    perhaps a conference?”
    

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42. P H P C O N F. A S I A
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45. S T U D E N T S F R O M I T E
    S U P P O R T I N G S T U D E N T S
    

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46. P H P W O M E N A S I A
    O C T 2 0 1 5
    

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47. P H P C O N F. A S I A 2 0 1 6
    A U G U S T 2 0 1 6
    

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51. # C O M E T O A S I A
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52. P H P W O M E N A S I A
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53. W H AT ’ S N E X T ?
    • PHPConf.Asia 2017
    • More Meetups
    • More co-organisers
    • New leadership?
    

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