Welcome to the PHP community

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Claims concrete steps: a three-tier plan engage, contribute, give back with exact actions. Practical tips include using Twitter, joining GrUSP/NomadPHP/PHP mentoring, filing reproducible GitHub issues with sample code and system specs, answering Stack Overflow threads, volunteering at conferences, and giving feedback via the “feedback sandwich.” Metrics mentioned: roughly one third of speaking gigs are PHP, one third JavaScript. Personal notes include self-taught PHP since childhood, ~20 years of use, and current day job is nearly 100% JavaScript.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 22:36JOIN OTHER ORGANIZATIONS IN THE PNP COMMUNITY * NomodPHP an online usergroup that values continuous learning * PHP Mentoring a formal, personal, long-term, peer-to-peer mentorship organization
3. 22:58START ADDING THOROUGH TICKETS TO OSS PROJECTS * When you encounter a bug in an open source project, create a GitHub issue and be thorough. Include: What you were trying to do * Somple code demonstrating the bug
4. 24:38GO TO ALL THE CONFERENCES * phpDay is great, but there are hundreds of other excellent tech conferences throughout the year. * You'll truly feel part of the community once you start seeing familiar faces.
5. 28:36SPEAKING AT CONFERENCES * Your viewpoint is unique. Your ideas matter. You matter * Be a visible role model for others. * As an introvert, it actually makes socializing with others easier!
6. 30:47PUBLIC SPEAKING IS AWESOME
7. 33:16CONTRIBUTING TO OPEN SOURCE * Creating a new library is great.. but also consider what's out there already * Many maintainers are burning out and looking for co-maintainers to help * Contributions are not just code!

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