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Great Houston PHP/MySQL Users Group Yesterday

December 2, 2005 at 1:13 pm · Comments (1)

So yesterday we had a great Houston PHP/MySQL Meeting at the University of Houston. We got to have our own little classroom with projectors, wireless internet and whiteboard. John Arnold who was supposed to do a presentation on his ERP system didn’t show up (maybe couldn’t find the place?), but I gave a quick introduction to Prototype and script.aculo.us to everyone.

Since we still had some free time, I went over Smarty for a bit, writing some PHP examples.

Things to improve next month:

  • Send the invitation email a week before the event, and not a day before like this time.
  • Ask people to introduce themselves before starting with the actual presentations.
  • Include the driving directions on the event details itself.
  • When sending out the invitation email, include a link to some map service.

Update:

Also, the following things:

  • Post the meeting details to Craigslist.org
  • Post the meeting details to PHP.net
  • Remember to bring the digital camera so we can have another picture of the group
  • Ask people for their name and email address so we can follow-up with them after the meeting