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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:26:52 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding a donate link to the PHP website
From: jimw@trainedmonkey.com ("Jim Winstead")

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, at 12:39 AM, James Titcumb wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 at 07:28, Andreas Heigl <andreas@heigl.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I would even support an RFC that goes one step beyond that and not only
> > officially recognize the PHPFoundation as a sponsoring organization but
> > also transfers the Copyright on PHP from the ominous "PHP Group" to the
> > PHP Foundation.
> >
> 
> I'm tending to agree with you here. The PHP Foundation has proven itself as
> a valuable organisation. As long as it doesn't go the way of PHP-FIG with
> so much bureaucracy, rules, and processes, I would support this movement.

Just to put my marker down, one of my longer-term goals here is to see the PHP Group become a group with a process for evolving its membership, and if folding it into the PHP Foundation is the best alternative we find for that (which seems the most likely to me), I would support it. There's some history to why it never quite got there before, but I think it's long past time to try again to correct that.

Jim