KEYNOTE PANEL | Open Source in Action
summary
Panelists name PHP as having 10–15 core committers for the engine while hundreds more touch tooling; one contribution is an SSH library that gets pulled into curl and ends up on “every machine,” another is a WordPress plugin still emailing users, and an Exoth OAuth engine lands inside apps like Instagram. Advice is concrete: license with BSD/MIT/Apache, expect legal friction when open-sourcing corporate code, use GitHub forks and pull requests, prioritize design for consumer success, and treat open source as a social activity—share, iterate, and accept critique.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Open source contributions
- 4:02Biggest contributions
- 8:35Why communities succeed or fail
- 13:49Dictatorship vs democracy in open source
- 18:43What PHP does right
- 22:55Diversity challenges
- 27:07Licensing from work
- 29:57Advice for contributors
- 33:11Closing remarks
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