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2015-04-02 PHP heads

Adam Wathan Cambridge, Ontario, Canada fullstackradio Alex Bilbie London PHP League Andi Gutmans Menlo Park, California Zend, PHP Core Andrew Smith London, UK Slim framework Angela Byron Vancouverish, BC Drupal Anthony Ferrara New Jersey, USA PHP Security, OWASP, password_compat Beau D. Simensen Madison, WI Sculpin, PHP-FIG, Stackphp, That Podcast Ben Edmunds Seattle, WA PHP Town Hall Benjamin Eberlei Germany Doctrine, Qafoo profiler Bruno Skvorc Croatia SitePoint / Diffbot Cal Evans Nashville, TN Developer Experience Architect Chris Fidao San Antonio, TX Laravel, Servers for hackers Chris Hartjes Milton, Ontario, Canada Mr Grumpy, test or die, /dev/hell Christopher Pitt blogger, SilverStripe Dave Marshall Brough, United Kingdom phpmig, That Podcast Davey Shafik Tampa Bay Area, Florida Engine Yard, PHAR David Zuelke Munich, Berlin, and some SF. Heroku Derick Rethans London, UK xdebug, php mongo Dmitry Stogov PHP Core Dominik Liebler /home/domnikl Design Pattern Dries Buytaert Boston Mr Drupal Ed Finkler West Lafayette, IN, USA /dev/hell, prompt Elizabeth Smith PHP Core Eric Barnes Gastonia, NC Laravel News Erika Heidi Reinaldo Amsterdam, NL evangelist, blogger, Ansible Fabian Blechschmidt Berlin, Germany PHPucEU Fabien Potencier Paris, France Mr Symfony, BlackfireIO Fabrizio Branca San Francisco, California aoe_* Frank De Jonge Amsterdam Flysystem, PHP League Franz Liedke Germany FluxBB, Flarum, Laravel Graham Campbell United Kingdom Laravel Henrik Bjørnskov Copenhagen, Denmark Bernard, Queue Igor Wiedler yolo, reactphp, stackphp Jack Skinner Sydney, Australia Zend Jeffrey Way Chattanooga, TN Mr Laracasts, Laravel pusher Jeremy Lindblom Seattle, WA awsforphp, super_closure, phpbard, PNWPHP Jonathan Reinink Beamsville, Canada PHP League Jonathan Wage Nashville, TN Opensky, Servergrove Jordi Boggiano London / Zürich Mr Composer, speaker, community man Josh Lockhart Chapel Hill, NC Modern PHP, Slim framework, PHP the right way Kayla Daniels New York, NY Omnipay, CodeManifesto, NoCapes Konstantin Kudryashov London BDD, Behat Kris Wallsmith Portland, OR, USA assetic, Buzz Lorna Jane Mitchell Leeds, UK gophp7 Lukas Kahwe Smith Zurich Liip, Symfony Matt Stauffer DTW✈GNV✈ORD✈GNV evangelist, blogger Matthew Weier O’Phinney Sioux Falls, SD Zend Michael Dowling Seattle, WA Guzzle, awsforphp Michelle Sanver Zürich PHPwomen, Liip Mior Muhammad Zaki Orchestra Platform Nikita Popov Berlin, Germany The smart kid, PHP Core Pádraic Brady Dublin, Ireland, Europe! Zend, Mockery Paul Dragoonis Glasgow, Scotland ppi, PHP-FIG Paul M. Jones Nashville, TN Mr decouple, AuraPHP Phil Sturgeon Brooklyn / Colombia PHP Town Hall, Queen of the league Phillip Jackson WPB, FL magetalk Rafael Dohms Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam PHP Rasmus Lerdorf Santa Clara County, California Mr PHP Rob Allen Worcester, UK Zend Ross Tuck Netherlands tactician, speaker Sammy Kaye Powers Chicago, IL PHP Roundtable, facebook-php-sdk Sara Golemon Silicon Valley Ms HHVM Sebastian Bergmann PHPUnit Shameer Calicut, Dubai Writer, phpToday Shawn McCool Utrecht, Netherlands LaraconEU, DevDiscussions, TDD, backup-manager Taylor Otwell Arkansas Mr Laravel Tim Bezhashvyly Berlin, Germany magekarma, Truth of Magento Magento EE Xinchen Hui China PHP Core, yaf Yitzchok Willroth Remote from Lakewood, NJ Wisdom as a Service Zeev Suraski Israel zend, PHP Core

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As a technology provider we have to have an eye on future trends. So we are monitoring what's going on in the open source PHP world. It's fun watching all those interesting projects out there. But it's not about technology only. You'll need to know about the people driving the projects to understand what's going on. What are the visible, vocal & visionary PHPeople up to?

To better keep track of everything we would like to see a kind of open PHP resources database. Probably a GitHub-hosted curated website merging own data with various other sources. One meta place to get up-to-date informations on podcasts, books, user groups, conferences, blogs — linking PHPeople to PHProjects. We have some rough ideas and already collected a little bit of data for such project. But currently, we don't have the resources.

Wanna help and take over? [UPDATED 2015-05-05]: There is a GitHub repo now with not more than a readme and some links to initial research.