Hi,

Aucklanders, get this PHP year started with one massive event: Sigurd Magnusson from Silverstripe is coming up to introduce Silverstripe and talk about the Google Highschool contest.

Note this is on an out of order date! We meet on Monday.

Please RSVP now!

Meetup:

Monday (!) 4 February, 7:00 PM
Where:
NatColl office, NatColl buidling
Cnr KRoad & Symonds St, 5th floor
Auckland
021 5678 53

Please RSVP here:
http://php.meetup.com...

Please invite other PHP developers you know to this event, we are now approaching 200 Developers! Please think especially about any Highschoolers that might be interested to attend.

*** Main topic ***

Topic: Silverstripe and Google Highschool Contest
Speaker: Sigurd Magnusson

The Talk:
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Introduction to the SilverStripe web platform, and how Google helped over 200 complex tasks get done by highschoolers worldwide.

SilverStripe is a Wellington-born but now globally used open source platform for building vibrant websites and rich web-applications. It is heavily focused on usability (the out-of-the box content management and administration interface strives to be the most efficient system to manage a website), and a fantastic environment for coders; a truely PHP5 object-oriented framework that shall limit programmers mutinying to Ruby on Rails.

Get an insightful overview of the SilverStripe platform, and also breaking news on the Google Highly Open Particaption contest, which saw over 60 individuals from around the world work on 200 tasks covering QA, coding, theme creating, translation, movie making and other highly supporting activities to the project.

You can learn more about SilverStripe at www.silverstripe.com

About Sigurd:
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Sigurd Magnusson is the community manager and a usability evangelist for SilverStripe, a modern open source web platform. In 2007 the SilverStripe project commissioned a usability study, and through the generous support of Google?s Summer of Code, several hundred enhancements were added in the space of months.

Sigurd has been living and breathing the internet since 1995 when the City Council of Wellington, New Zealand provided the region's only internet service; then entirely text-based and only 2400 baud. Add a grandma who taught him C before he got to high school, and the rest all makes sense.

Sigurd would like to see webapps compete with Apple products for usability supremacy. Having helped build a few hundred websites over the past decade, he now focuses on supporting the developer community around SilverStripe, a modern open source web platform he co-founded. He makes a point of using the finished project every day to continuously feed the developer community with a stream of usability enhancement ideas.

Aside from his beautiful partner and daughter, Siggy loves adventure: snowboarding, turning up in a foreign city, reading books in the sun, and being dared into dancing Salsa at annual street carnivals.

** Profiler Spot **

John Jones from WDANZ
Topic: QuoteMasters

About WDANZ Quote Masters:

QuoteMasters provides an intelligent sales lead matching service, which means that the customer gets one well qualified referral This process encourages quality web development because, unlike other systems, it is not price driven. Also, it is risk free for members because they only pay commissions on work they actually end up doing.

About John Jones:

Originally trained as a programmer, John worked mostly in hardware, desktop and network support before picking up code again and discovering a passion for the web. He confesses though to being more of a manager, having spent time getting NEC?s service delivery back on track, and having held roles in Product Development and Technical Team Leadership. At Natcoll he was previously the National Coordinator of Web Development, working with Steve Yeoman to design, develop and roll out the diploma. Currently John runs the Web Developers Association of NZ, partly telecommuting from his home in Wainui where he lives on a family farm with his wife and four children.

*Remember*, this is the unique opportunity to show off the latest project that you have done and get an opportunity to show it to a greater audience in person. We are actively looking for people that want to spend 10-15 minutes on their latest project. No one knows your project better than you, no reason to be shy!

Please get in touch with Jochen: [masked] to book you in for this meetup or a later one.

Thanks again for the people at NatColl, especially Steve Yeoman for letting is use this venue. Please bring spare coins for beer and juice ($2) and to share pizza!

Also, please RSVP here: http://php.meetup.com...

See you there

Jochen