Hello, everyone! I was nominated by Larry for the Core Committee, based on long-running collaboration between the two of us. Many of you may have seen my activity both within FIG and within the PHP community, but I'm also quite aware that I've been not hugely visible the last couple years, so I'll give some background.
I've been programming in PHP since 2000, starting with version 3 releases, and quickly switching to PHP 4. I have been programming PHP in a professional capacity essentially since I first discovered the language, with a few gaps when I was between gigs in the early 2000s. I first became involved with the PHP community via the php-general mailing list, and then blogging, which, in the early 2000s, was a small but active group of developers. It was through these activities that I came to the attention of somebody at Zend, and I was hired in 2005 by them to work in their then-nascent "eBiz" group. One stipulation was that I was to "dogfood" code from a then-secret project, Zend Framework. I later was tasked with forming a working group to finalize the MVC layer for version 1, and, following the version 1 release in 2007, pulled in full-time to the team. I've been project lead since 2009. Since 2007, I've been speaking regularly at conferences (except the past 2 years!), participating in podcasts, and writing articles for my own and others blogs. While I often speak on ZF-related topics, I tend to aim for more general PHP topics, as I'd like to ensure that the PHP community as a whole is well informed, not just the niches formed by frameworks. I was one of the founding members of FIG during the meeting at php|tek in 2009. The big topic we all agreed upon at the meeting was that autoloading was an area we could all agree to work on together. I took point, and am the author of record for PSR-0, our first specification. I turned the ZF vote over to a community member in February 2013, as, at that point, I was unsure about whether or not shared interfaces were going to be a good collaboration and standardization point (they are!), and was frustrated with the level of bikeshedding (still am!). However, I returned in September 2014 due to my enthusiasm for PSR-7. My timing was rather interesting, as the editor (Mike Dowling) had just indicated he was no longer willing to push it forward. I took it on with his permission, and pushed it to acceptance. Since then, I have also acted as coordinator on PSR-13 (Links); I am currently coordinator on PSR-11 (Containers); and I am actively involved with PSR-15 (HTTP middleware) and PSR-17 (HTTP Message factories). My goal in each role is always to: - ensure internal consistency within the specification - attempt some consistency with existing specifications - consider implications for existing libraries and frameworks - produce a specification that improves the ecosystem, rather than directly mirrors it If chosen to a CC role, these will also be my guidelines. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [email protected] https://mwop.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PHP Framework Interoperability Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/php-fig/CAJp_myU3UvU2UPP8%3DSFMOFBzRzjqn5Ys6S-W%3Dth3KC3cm6ULUA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
