Crossover with the Chicago PHP community to Promote Drupal

I attended a meetup of the West Suburban PHP Meetup on August 2nd, the topic was PHP Security. We did a little bit of promotion for this on a couple meetup groups and some of the PHP forums. It was pretty successful for this new meetup with signups of 12 people (7 showed).

I think there is good interest on this important topic for beginner to advanced user. It could be a good one for us to promote Drupal to a wider community. I would suggest a presentation style format for it starting with general PHP security and then talking the benefits of Drupal community support and all the great work being done on security issues. Would there be some stellar people we could recruit for such a topic?

Here are some slides by Dave Ross (West Suburban PHP Meetup) of his PHP security presentation at the August meetup at www.slideshare.net/csixty4/intro-to-php-security/ , I think he did a pretty good job of introducing and even laying out some of the key issues and what can be done about them.

I'm not suggesting jumping into such a topic in the next couple meetups, but if we want to promote Drupal and grow our community, I think this might be a good topic or series to consider covering. With the right promotion I think it could be a great opportunity.