How to create a user group
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To start your local MySQL group, you can use social networking sites like Facebook, Xing, or meetup.com. These sites provide a number of facilities to organize your group, like a calendar and invitation system. Most of them provide these services for free, others (like meetup.com) require you to pay.
Make sure that the service allows you to schedule meetings and send out invitations and reminders. People interested in attending should be able to register, so you get an overview about how many people to expect. Some also provide discussion boards and photo galleries and many other things that ease the promotion and organization of your meeting.
Once you registered your group on any of these sites, you can invite your friends to join your group and start promoting it. Also make sure to add a pointer to your group's home page to our List of MySQL User Groups.
You are welcome to use this Wiki to maintain web pages about your group. Make sure to add them to the MySQLUserGroups category!
The other way is to make your own user group place in your own server. If you are wondering about the procedure, just take a look of this sample steps:
- The easiest way is to download a community software called MediaWiki. Yes it is the same like the software in this web site.
- Unzip it into your webserver. The requirements are PHP > 4.3 and MySQL database.
- Follow the install wizard.
- You have MySQL UG software installed in 4 minutes.
Of course, any other Content Management System or Groupware would work, too.