Right Where You Belong

Right Where You Belong The PHP Community Thursday, October 22, 2009

Making Community Thursday, October 22, 2009

What Makes Them Involvement * Don’t stagnate * Passion! Ask not what it can do for you * Bring what you have * Look for places to improve You Belong * Comfort Thursday, October 22, 2009

Leadership Open lines of Communication Open personalities Know the territory You’re nice... * ...you’re wrong, but you’re nice Thursday, October 22, 2009

What Breaks Them “Crossed wires” * Misconceptions * Gossip * Careless comments Thursday, October 22, 2009

What Breaks Them Interest Level * Always comes and goes * “Withering vines” * No champion Thursday, October 22, 2009

What Breaks Them Ego * Don’t listen to the “little guy” * Perspective != truth * If you’re lucky, the community flows around “that guy”... Thursday, October 22, 2009

Growth Lower the Barriers * Constant Improvement * PHP’s easy, people aren’t * Tour guides? Thursday, October 22, 2009

Growth Guides on The Path * Doing it alone is the hard way * On the shoulders of tech giants * Quiet and Loud Thursday, October 22, 2009

Growth Vision for the Future * Open processes * “To be the best” * Don’t forget the new people! * Planning sucks, but do it (trust me) Thursday, October 22, 2009

Making Your Mark Thursday, October 22, 2009

Set your inner author free... Thursday, October 22, 2009

Write! Documentation Project manuals * Often overlooked * Living document The Others * User guides * API docs Thursday, October 22, 2009

Write! Documentation Code Comments * Bring clarity to code * Generated documentation * A difference between good and great More Tech! * READMEs, etc... Thursday, October 22, 2009

Write! Documentation About the Project * Structure, UML, Schema * Project Wiki * Unit tests? Thursday, October 22, 2009

Write! Blogging You pick the topics * Technical? Community? * Respond to the community * Promote a project Thursday, October 22, 2009

Write! Blogging Who needs to prepare? * Research for some * Off the cuff for others * My recommendation? Both. Thursday, October 22, 2009

Write! Blogging A Few Suggestions * Code - Download or plain-text! * Link to the post (yes, people forget) * Don’t make things up Thursday, October 22, 2009

Write! Tutorials Pick a topic, any topic * You’re just learning too? Cool! * Pass it down * Don’t be intimidated * Writing as learning (an amazing thing) Thursday, October 22, 2009

Write! Tutorials Growing young minds * Channel your inner Beginner * Know the audience * Define the audience Thursday, October 22, 2009

Write! Tutorials A few helpful hints * Don’t forget the code! * If you (just) post it, they won’t come * Include the version number Thursday, October 22, 2009

Write! Books/Articles Publishers like * Apress * Packt * McGraw-Hill Magazines like * php|architect * PHP Magazine Thursday, October 22, 2009

Meet the People Thursday, October 22, 2009

Meet & Greet User Groups Find a local group! * Meetup.com * Calendar @ php.net * You don’t have to always go * Context is everything Thursday, October 22, 2009

Meet & Greet User Groups Meeting of the minds * New ideas * Like-minded * Online collaboration vs Face-to-Face Thursday, October 22, 2009

Meet & Greet User Groups Don’t just attend, socialize! * Shake hands * Get cards * Ask about their pet project Thursday, October 22, 2009

Meet & Greet Mentoring Sharing is good (and important) * Find a budding developer * Set aside some time * Listen then talk You could learn too! Thursday, October 22, 2009

Meet & Greet Speaking to the masses Mailing Lists * Flaming doesn’t help anyone Twitter * Great for public opinion & questions IRC * Personal interaction * Great to keep in touch Thursday, October 22, 2009

Meet & Greet Speaking to the masses Presentations * at local user group * at work * at conferences Be Official * Get on the committee * Chair an uncon * Work behind the scenes Thursday, October 22, 2009

...and of course, The Code Thursday, October 22, 2009

Contribute the Code Just for PHP Write Tests * phpt * gcov.php.net * TestFest Extensions * Contribute or create Hackin’ the Core Thursday, October 22, 2009

Contribute the Code Extending PECL * that’s peck-ul to you (no, not pickle) * C extensions (phpize/build/include) * almost 230 official packages PEAR * over 530 official packages * well-structured, proven resources * elected leadership Thursday, October 22, 2009

Contribute the Code Outside the Box Other Open Source Projects * Phergie * MediaWiki * Doctrine * Frameworks (Zend, Solar, CakePHP, Symfony) Thursday, October 22, 2009

So you’re a business? You can help too! Employee Participation * PHP’s development * Contributing bugs * The Cost of Training * Encourage community Thursday, October 22, 2009

So you’re a business? You can help too! Open Source projects * Good code, good product * Share an internal tool! Thursday, October 22, 2009

Making a Difference Thursday, October 22, 2009

What You Can Do A place for everyone... No code? No Problem * Write, interact, learn Share your skills * Hack away & make things better “PHP PR” * Further the cause Thursday, October 22, 2009

What You Can Do ...and everyone in a place Finding your fit * Weigh the options * Follow your passion * It’s all about PHP * It’s not all about PHP Thursday, October 22, 2009

What You Can Do Books Forums User Groups Articles Conferences Blogs Written Spoken Outreach Comments Which One-on-One are you? Code Propose Create Correct Contribute Thursday, October 22, 2009

What You Can Do Mix it up! Twitter Outreach Frameworks Create Propose Books Socialize Conferences Forums Articles User Groups Comments Tutorial Bugs Contribute IRC Mailing list Articles One-on-One Blogs Mentoring Projects Correct The Core Tutorial Thursday, October 22, 2009

So what is community? The word is often used to refer to a group that is organized around common values and social cohesion. [...] If community exists, both freedom and security may exist as well. The community then takes on a life of its own, as people become free enough to share and secure enough to get along. Wikipedia.org - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community Thursday, October 22, 2009

Does PHP fit? The word [community] is often used to refer to a group that is organized around common values and social cohesion. [...] If community exists, both freedom and security may exist as well. The community then takes on a life of its own, as people become free enough to share and secure enough to get along. Thursday, October 22, 2009

Chris Cornutt ccornutt@phpdeveloper.org @enygma http://joind.in/927 @phpdeveloper @joindin A special “Thank You” to all of the wonderful photographers in the PHP community for all of the great pictures they take! Thursday, October 22, 2009

Right Where You Belong

by Chris Cornutt on Oct 22, 2009

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