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PHP[TEK] 2024

Ben Ramsey (19)

The infamous root beer beer, at Shoeless Joe’s, 10 years ago today.

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This is part of the reason I couldn’t get to a good place (mentally) in order to do a _real_ “Saving Open Source” talk at :

From @geerlingguy: “2024 is the year corporate open source died”

jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/cor

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I’ve seen a number of folks get excited about contributing to since , and that’s amazing!

My advice: pace yourself, and start small. Give yourself a long runway, and if you don’t contribute at the level you were hoping, don’t count that as a failure, and don’t beat yourself up over it.

It’s easy to burn out quickly if your expectation is to jump head-first into open source. Every contribution, no matter how tiny you perceive it, is a success.

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Another excellent , thanks to @eric, @john, and the entire @phparch team. You all rock! 🤘

Thank you to the amazing sponsors who made it all possible!

@osmi @pubnub ( @aprilwensel ) @packagist

Attendees, please check out the sponsors and let them know you appreciate their support.

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OH: “A lot of the stuff that Python gets praised for being fast at, PHP now outperforms Python at doing, but it’s a story we’re not really telling. We should be telling that story.”

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I’ve posted the slides to my package tutorial at . Many apologies for not posting them beforehand. I normally do that, and it slipped my mind this time.

joind.in/event/phptek-2024/let

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Ever wanted to build and publish a package but don’t know how? Come to my tutorial at 2pm CDT in PHPUgly Hall, and I’ll teach you how!

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