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Last evening I went to the New York City PHP meetup group, after one of the members of this group posted on the New York City Drupal group's site looking for speaker / advocates. It was fun to walk into a new meetup group, that was really just starting out, and people were enthusiastic and excited to have new people showing up. In the end about half the attendees were entrepreneurs, recruiters, or marketing folks, and the other half were technical, developer types. Pretty standard meetup with everyone stepping forward and introducing themselves and what they do, then on to a nice back and forth about two open source content management systems, specifically Drupal and Joomla. One of the hosts of the meetup was versed in both CMS's so he talked about Joomla, while Michael (from Sony/BMG) and myself talked on Drupal's behalf. It was a great discussion, and people really got a good amount of exposure to the generalities of both CMS's and some more details about Drupal, I think cause we outnumbered the Joomla folks :)

I hope that I get to more of the New York City PHP Meetups it will help me to learn more about PHP and development in general.