Boston PHP Meetup is the largest education-focused Meetup in New England with more than 3,800 members. Our mission is to engage members in continuing education efforts. As a result, we offer services beyond in-person meetups. A cornerstone of our member engagement strategy is the virtual self-study group initiative called Web Apprentices.

In the Spring of 2020, three regional PHP Meetup groups formed an alliance to offer virtual meetings during the global pandemic. Five additional user groups have joined since. This alliance, called MergePHP, provides educational services to more than 10,000 web developers.

The Meetup.com infrastructure (events and message boards) is used to coordinate learning opportunities for its members. This repository holds code written for virtual self-study group communications published on Boston PHP Meetup.