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Last minute decided to go to #phptek this year. Trying to decide if I want to make the drive tonight or tomorrow morning... have to find a hotel for the night if I decide on the late drive.

#phptek I would argue with @ramsey s statement that being active on mailing lists and helping others isn't being involved in open source

Every answer someone gives to a user's problem is mental weight a maintainer or contributor can let go of

The best way I've heard AI(llm) assistance with coding is it's moving the work to code review instead of code generation. Considering how bad most people are at code review... this will not end well.

#phptek

#phptek So many old-timers in this room. So many php careers that can vote, drink... and a few that are old enough to run for president.

#phptek if every user did just one documentation fix a year - what @ramsey calls "light open source contributions"

We would be light-years ahead

#phptek The best documentation is written by newcomers

They find the important stuff that the current folks "already know"

@ramsey #phptek telling the old web stories

Midi files
Animated gifs

Geocities and tripod and angelfire

Web rings and guestbooks

And we all shared things

#phptek Made it. Anyone hanging around? Drive was great until I started heading north from downtown on the expressway

#phptek "How long is the PHP release lifecycle.... none of you at this table or that one can answer"

#phptek I miss mailing lists... except for the fact that their run with email