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Re:Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director ... by idoubtit on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @01:40AM (#47243970)
Precise info about the PHP foundation is hard to find. They have an annual budget of ≈500k USD, half of it assigned to developers[^1]. From a 2024 presentation video, they claim that the foundation has a "language impact" of 43% on the PHP core, with 57% for "other developers" ; but the graph does not state the metric used[^2].

But I could not find an answer to the most obvious questions:

What did they do last year? There is no annual public report of their activity.

Do they pay developers to work on whatever they want on the PHP core? Or does the foundation have an internal roadmap and assign tasks to developers?

[^1]: https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation#category-BUDGET

[^2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE4g1Tl6RQw at 06:45

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Re:Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director ... by boogadaboogada on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:52AM (#47244421)
Does this answer your question?

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/12/02/can-we-count-on-yo...

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Re:Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director ... by okanat on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @04:41AM (#47245203)
They are probably asking for a proper annual finances and activities report just like this one for Wikimedia https://wikimediafoundation.org/annualreports/2023-2024-annu... .
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Re:Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director ... by jorams on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @06:29AM (#47246014)
> What did they do last year? There is no annual public report of their activity.

There is[1][2][3], the one for 2025 just isn't out yet.

[1]: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/03/31/transparency-and-i...

[2]: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/02/26/transparency-and-i...

[3]: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2022/11/22/transparency-and-i...

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