burlington vt

I recently surveyed the Burlington, VT PHP Users Group to get an idea of what motivates people to be involved with the group.

I got the idea from a blog post on the top 7 reasons why people join a user group community.

This was certainly not a scientific survey and there were only 16 responses, but it still offers some insight that can be useful in planning user group activities.

Bradley Holt has a new post to his blog for people in the Burlington, Vermont area - an announcement about a PHP picnic that's been planned for August 15th.

On Sunday, August 15th the Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group will be hosting a PHP Picnic.

From the description:

Apache CouchDB is a free/open source RESTful JSON document (NoSQL) database with map reduce views and peer-based replication.

Version 1.0 was just released today and is 300% faster than the previous version and includes Microsoft Windows support, an authentication system, and flexible replicator options.

At tomorrow’s Burlington, VT PHP Users Group meeting Matthew Weier O’Phinney will be giving a presentation on Document Databases.

From the meeting description:

Job postings for the past week:

• Job Posting: Vermont Information Processing Seeks Senior/Lead PHP Developer (Burlington, VT)
• Job Posting: Mediware Blood Center Technologies Seeks PHP Software Developer (Jacksonville, FL)

On the Zend Developer Zoen today Eli White has announced the winners of the free passes for this year's Zend/PHP Conference - five groups all across the PHP community.