Bringing “The PHP Community” together

Yesterday the PHPVerse online-conference was taking place. For reasons unrelated to what I am writing about here I didn’t participate. And let me be 100% clear: This is a personal opinion that is based on observations around the conference, not on the content itself! What is PHPVerse? PHPVerse is an online conference organized by Jetbrains and free to attend for everyone registered. The idea is to connect different parts of the splitted PHP-Community which I endorse! So for this edition there were people from the Symfony-, WordPress-, Laravel- and the Drupal-Community doing sessions along with people vocal on the internals mailinglist, maintaining the PHP package manager and from the PHP Foundation. But this is not about the content that these people brought. What hit me were three fundamental things about “The Community” that in my opinion need to be addressed differently and why I am increasingly weary of such events. 1. The Community What community are we talking about here. Or let…