Cal's three questions for Rafael about his involvement in the community:

• Tell us about your experience integrating with a whole new community when you moved from Brazil to Amsterdam
• Talk to us about Amsterdam PHP
• Talk some about how the leadership of the user group is set up ("enablers")

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In this edition I talked with Rafael Dohms ( @rdohms ), The Brazilian PHP Evangelist. He is to the PHP Community and specially to The Brazilian PHP Community, what Brazilian Ronaldo is to the Football World! He has founded two PHP user-groups and is seen as an AWESOME active member of the PHP Community; he is also an active contributor to some conspicuous open-source PHP projects as you will found out for yourself in this interview. Rafael is very passionate about helping out fellow developers generously; you can read more about him on his personal website/blog.

In his answers, Rafael talks about things like:

• Some of his first experiences with PHP (including a CounterStrike clan website)
• His recommendation of the book "The Art of Readable Code"
• His favorite conference (hint: It's in Chicago each year)
• His recommendation for less arguments in the community
• Thoughts on PHP 5.4 and its features
• Some of his experiences with both starting and being a member of various PHP user groups

You can read the full interview here.

Cal's questions for Rafael are related to

• The Brazilian PHP community has an umbrella organization that supports the local communities - can you describe how this works?
• Can you explain the differences in the communities between the two countries [USA and Brazil]?
• What one thing from the Brazilian PHP community would you like to see other communities use?

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