The Symfony Open-source Community
summary
Symfony claims ~600,000 developers across 120 countries and shows concrete activity: 18.5k GitHub stars, ~32.5k Twitter followers, ~60k Stack Overflow questions and 7 of the top 15 composer packages. Community work includes the code of conduct and care team, a speakership mentorship, and month‑long Oktoberfest drive. Practical entry points are listed: write PHP unit tests, pick issues with the Help Wanted label, do translations, review PRs or manage events — small contributions are welcome and impactful.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:27Community
- 1:01Commonality
- 1:54Human Connection
- 2:40The Community
- 3:15Statistics
- 4:46Contributing to Symphony
- 5:11Pull Requests
- 6:13Oktoberfest
- 8:03Ryan
- 9:31Unit Tests
- 10:28Communication
- 11:48Inclusive Language
- 12:26Learning PHP
- 13:04Reviewing
- 14:14Giving
- 14:58Involvement
- 16:45Open sourcing mental illness
- 17:02Imposter syndrome
- 17:33Dave Lee
- 18:45Burnout
- 19:20Im out
- 19:51Explore
- 21:10Conclusion
