Germany is spending €108 million to move its federal websites onto a TYPO3-based platform. The European Commission runs 770 sites on Drupal. Around 300,000 German federal users work on Nextcloud. All PHP.

Across Europe, when governments say "digital sovereignty," what they're describing is very often a PHP application. In our latest blog post, Sebastian Bergmann looks at where PHP runs in the public sector, why so little of that support reaches the maintainers underneath it, and three practical changes to procurement that could fix it.

As Roman Pronskiy's term on The PHP Foundation Board comes to an end, he is replaced by the wonderful Brent Roose, from a unanimous vote. Welcome Brent! 🚀 And thank you for your years of dedication and commitment to The PHP Foundation, Roman! ❤️🐘

Join us for The PHP Foundation Community Hour, an interactive podcast that helps you understand how you can contribute to the PHP ecosystem! Shout-out to PHP Architect for providing the infrastructure, platform, and technical support to enable us to host these episodes. 🧡