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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:05:40 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Miro Svrtan: Starting/organizing a developer community: ZgPHP meetup]]></title>
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In a recent post <i>Miro Svrtan</i> talks about a <a href="http://www.mirosvrtan.me/blog/2012/09/starting-developer-community-zgphp-meetup/">PHP developer community</a> he started up in the Zagreb, Croatia area, the <a href="http://zgphp.org/">ZgPHP user group</a>, and some of the lessons he learned in the process.
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The year 2011 was a great success for developer communities in Zagreb. Although mobile developers started in 2010 with Mobile Monday, web developers were a bit shy and Ruby developers started first, then python meetups started and in the summer few people urged/pushed me to start organizing PHP Meetups. Besides colleagues I did not know a lot of PHP developers so I needed to spread the word about it. Twitter was the first step and it paid off. With only a few retweets there were already 10-20 people interested.
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<a href="http://www.mirosvrtan.me/blog/2012/09/starting-developer-community-zgphp-meetup/">The post</a> talks about the growth of the group, things they wish they'd done better (like involving local companies) and their work to create a custom logo for the group. If you're in the area and want to find out more about the group, check out <a href="http://zgphp.org/">their main page</a>.
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:22:05 -0500</pubDate>
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