[webproducers] Re: local web producers meetups?

Since we're all volunteer does anyone have suggestions for tools/ 
technology to develop the membership profile list/database?

I know some folks have used things like PHPbb and re-purposed the code  
them for member databases.
On Feb 22, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Andrea Hardison wrote:

> I think a membership database would be a great idea.
> It would be good to know where everyone is from.
>
> I'm from the Washington DC area. We have a pretty good
> community of designers and developers at
> DC-REFRESH.ORG.
>
> But I like this group because it's specifically for
> web producers.
>
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> --- morry <morry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I'd bet that now we have a lot more non-NYC based
>> folks in the
>> community than we all realize.
>>
>> In the early days we were mostly in NYC but we're
>> everywhere now.  I'd
>> love if we had a member database and we could all
>> find each other.
>> Should we try something like Ning to pull us
>> together or is there some
>> decent membership database software we could pop
>> into our site?
>>
>> On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Ryan Champagne wrote:
>>
>>> I like your idea. Personally, I am located in
>> Florida, where most of
>>> you are
>>> in NY. It would be nice to start expanding and
>> including local
>>> groups. I am
>>> in tallahassee now, but soon relocating to South
>> Florida where there
>>> is much
>>> more going on in the development sector.
>>> I wouldn't mind trying to organize some stuff down
>> there once I get
>>> established.
>>>
>>> -Ryan
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:20 AM, morry
>> <morry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey all-
>>>>
>>>> In the past I've sponsored local events in NY and
>> even when I was
>>>> visiting London last spring.
>>>>
>>>> I've been running WPO for nearly eight years now
>> and we often hear of
>>>> interest in local events or gatherings. In the
>> past I've encouraged
>>>> folks to kick start local chapters as I see WPO
>> as a kind of open-
>>>> source professional community but it never seems
>> to happen.
>>>>
>>>> I'm curious what you think would be a good way to
>> get this moving  so
>>>> local interactive producers have a way to get
>> together without having
>>>> to do tons of planning. Should we use meetup.com
>> or some other tool
>>>> to
>>>> make it easy to plan or is someone interested in
>> helping to create
>>>> something that would reside on the WPO site?
>>>>
>>>> As the industry continues to mature it would be
>> great to figure out
>>>> ways to involve more of the community but also
>> keep it more free-form
>>>> and a professional community than an old style
>> "association".
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
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