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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

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 https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation#category-BUDGET [^2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE4g1Tl6RQw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE4g1Tl6RQw at 06:45

boogadaboogada 7mo ago
Does this answer your question? https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/12/02/can-we-count-on-you-in-2026/ https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/12/02/can-we-count-on-yo...
- okanat 7mo ago
  They are probably asking for a proper annual finances and activities report just like this one for Wikimedia https://wikimediafoundation.org/annualreports/2023-2024-annual-report/#toc-financial-accountability https://wikimediafoundation.org/annualreports/2023-2024-annu... .
jorams 7mo ago
> 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-impact-report-2024/ https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/03/31/transparency-and-i... [2]: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/02/26/transparency-and-impact-report-2023/ https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/02/26/transparency-and-i... [3]: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2022/11/22/transparency-and-impact-report-2022/ https://thephp.foundation/blog/2022/11/22/transparency-and-i...

boogadaboogada 7mo ago

Does this answer your question? https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/12/02/can-we-count-on-you-in-2026/ https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/12/02/can-we-count-on-yo...

okanat 7mo ago
They are probably asking for a proper annual finances and activities report just like this one for Wikimedia https://wikimediafoundation.org/annualreports/2023-2024-annual-report/#toc-financial-accountability https://wikimediafoundation.org/annualreports/2023-2024-annu... .

jorams 7mo ago

> 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-impact-report-2024/ https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/03/31/transparency-and-i... [2]: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/02/26/transparency-and-impact-report-2023/ https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/02/26/transparency-and-i... [3]: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2022/11/22/transparency-and-impact-report-2022/ https://thephp.foundation/blog/2022/11/22/transparency-and-i...