The PHP Foundation
The PHP Foundation is a collective of people and organizations relying on the PHP language. Its mission is to ensure the long-term prosperity of the PHP language.
The PHP Foundation focuses on providing financial support and guidance to PHP language developers to support its goals of improving the language for its users, providing high-quality maintenance, and improving the PHP language project to retain current contributors and to integrate new contributors.
The PHP Foundation aims to promote the public image of the PHP language in the interest of retaining existing and gaining new users and contributors.
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The foundation contracts 10 part-time and full-time developers who work on maintenance and new features for PHP.
The foundation team contributes in many forms: filing issues, reviewing pull requests, participating in discussions on mailing lists, triaging issues, submitting RFC proposals, writing documentation, maintaining project infrastructure, fixing bugs, and implementing features.
In alphabetical order, the ten founding members of the foundation are: Acquia, Automattic, Craft CMS, JetBrains, Laravel, PrestaShop, Private Packagist, Symfony, Tideways, Zend by Perforce.
In addition to the Governing Board, The PHP Foundation has an Advisory Board with representatives from Automattic, JetBrains, Private Packagist, Symfony, Tideways, Zend by Perforce, Moodle, Shopware, Laravel, Ardennes-étape, Les-Tilleuls.coop / API Platform, Aternos GmbH, PrestaShop, and CraftCMS.
The foundation is always open to new sponsors. If your company has been benefiting from PHP over the years, but not sure how it might give back to the ecosystem, now there's a clear and obvious choice.
