NYCPHP Meetup

[Donna Marie Vincent]

Gary,

I agree that we should add an About Us page (#1-3).

And we do have a bio page and presentation page.  The bio page is called Card Exchange, for anyone who attends a meeting.  And all presenters are encouraged to add any materials from the slideshow to the website's Meetings/Presentations download section.

We don't have "regular presenters" and I don't think we ever will because people come and go.

As far as gathering info from the RSVP and developing a presentation or demo around the requests, I believe that would be a job in itself.  Are you volunteering for the job? ;-)   I believe that decisions about what presentations we are interested in should be done at the meeting by people who are participating in the meetings.  People volunteer their presentation, or volunteer to arrange for someone outside our group to come in and give a presentation, and we decide whether it is something we want at the meeting.

For people to email in and say I want to see this and learn that, and the rest of us jump and do it, I for one am not fond of that idea.  I think the group is based on mutual sharing, that people need to take the initiative to go on the Joomla.org site and other resource sites, and then follow up with discussions in the group.

Donna





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From: Gary Mort <garyamort at gmail.com>
To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Fri, December 11, 2009 7:49:55 AM
Subject: Re: [joomla] list sig

I can shoot an email to Hans Z. asking him to make the change.  I've found the NYPHP folks very accomodating.

As a PHP programmer first and a Joomla user second, I've always found NYPHP as the logical home for the Joomla email list... but based on the fact that many Joomla users don't even know, nor do they need to, that it is written in PHP perhaps it's not. :-)

As for the website, I've been mulling that for a while and have a few[aka many] suggestions:

1) There should be an about us page with a general overview of the group
2) There should be a history page covering the founding of the group through organizing NYC's second JoomlaDay
3) We need to stress strongly that ALL skill levels of Joomla are welcome at the meetings.  One thing I recommend is strongly encouraging non-coders to come early to the meeting and schedule the non-techie stuff for the beginning and save the techie stuff for the end
4) Encourage people new to joomla or considering Joomla to RSVP and ask them to make a note that they are new to Joomla[perhaps set a checkbox] - and place a count on the website of how many newbies are coming.  If we KNOW there are 3 or 4 complete new people, than schedule a short 15 minute "welcome to Joomla" demo for them.  Things like "this is how you can dynamically change the menu"..."this is how you can edit content on the frontpage".."this is how you add new content"...  Really BASIC stuff.   I know this was one of the things I did at the start of meetings, because quite frankly this kind of demo is not "sexy" and it doesn't show off your "skillz" so it is hard to find people willing to do the basics - but these basics are what really really attract new people to Joomla.  The fact that once a site is up, they do NOT need to call a web designer for every little content change.  Of course, this also means you need a few volunteers to present this -
 which shouldn't be too hard, just have a standard demo site everyone can use and run through the basics.  If there is a page where people can tell if newbies are coming, then a volunteer will step forward[I'd also say take it to the next level and 2 or 3 days before the meeting, have the volunteer be able to send an email out to those newbies "Thanks for your RSVP, Marian Konop from Gotham Informatics, http://www.gothaminformatics.com, has volunteered to give you a brief demo at the upcoming meeting on X at Y time.  Please make sure to come or let us know if something has come up and you need to cancel"]
5) Regular presentors should have bio pages on the website.  Something like:
Laura Gordon of RyTech Sites, http://www.rytechsites.com/ is a regular presentor at Joomla NYC.  
[brief bio]
She has recently presented on
X - brief description and date
Y -brief description and date
Z -brief description and date

6) Irregular presentors should be able to put up a bio page the month of and the month after a meeting.  Something like
Rafael ??? of Dioscouri Designs, http://www.dioscouri.com/
[brief bio]
Demonstrating their new online shopping system Tienda on X date

Most of this stuff is basic content editing, a directory component of some sort[SOBI2, K2, etc] and then a little coding on the RSVP side which I could work on during my dead week at the end of the month.



On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:12 PM, forest mars <compustretch at gmail.com> wrote:

>Any chance we can get the http://joomlanyc.org site on the e-list sig?
>
>Also, before we do that, any chance we can turn SEF on?  
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>
>just wondering, 
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