PHP User Groups

We want to network PHP user groups into a tighter community, provide a means to share information and resources among our community members, and aid in the formation of new PHP user groups.

One of this group's projects is a handbook for PHP user groups, complete with information about starting a group, planning meetings, contacting publishing companies for books, looking for sponsorship, etc. This information is drawn from the experiences, successes, and failures of all the user groups in our network, and it needs your help to make it complete.

• Read and contribute to The PHP User Group Handbook

The community maintains a map of PHP user groups around the world. Add your group to the map at https://php.ug.

The PHP project graciously hosts our mailing list. You may subscribe to the list by sending an e-mail to ug-admins-subscribe@lists.php.net. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to ug-admins-unsubscribe@lists.php.net. The subject line and body of the message do not matter.

Archives of the mailing list are available at https://news-web.php.net/ug.admins.

Our IRC and Matrix channels are bridged, so you may chat on one or the other (or both).

• Join us in #phpug on Libera.Chat IRC
• Join us in #phpug:matrix.org on Matrix

There is also a Discord for PHP User Groups for communication within and with other user groups; it's part of PHP Community Chat.

There are irregular meetups of usergroup-organizers on conferences. Check out what happened there.