Thursday, March 18. 2004

For a while now I have been quietly participating in the PHPCommunity.org project with guys like Chris Shiflett and George Schlossnagle as a member of the Steering committee. For those of you who have yet to be introduced to the project, the intention is to provide a real central hub for PHP users worldwide much along the same thing that Perl has. The project itself is completely volunteeer based, with O'Reilly Publishing providing server space and companies like Sams Publishing, php|architect, and PHP Magazine also contributing time and their resourcces.

The project is organized into a number of sub-projects such as Framework, Bug tracking, Blogging, Interface, etc. Each of these projects has a project lead (I am the lead of the Framework project) and the leads are starting to move forward with everything. Recently, we got our Mailing List manager set up as well, which is going to really help out in pulling everything together.

Interested? Want to get involved? Wonderful!

• If you would like to read more, we have a nice active Wiki that has been the base of operations while we get started. Feel free to read up and catch up!
  
• Subscribe! Once you have determined where you'd like to get involved, go visit the Mailing lists and subscribe to the projects you are interested in.
  
• Come talk with us. We can all be found in the #phpc channel on the irc.freenode.net IRC server.
  

This project has a lot of real backing from some of the biggest names in PHP. Get involved and be a part of something that can really make a difference!