You might want to get on the local PHP mailing list if you're not
already on it.  They too have monthly meetings and sometimes there's
work posted to the list.

http://tcphp.org/

Erik Mitchell wrote:
> What I want to do it PHP or JSP/J2EE development -- although I'm pretty
> weak on the J2EE stuff. I'm planning on taking Java classes in the next
> year.

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-scot