The "24 Days in December" project has returned this year, sharing opinions and insights from members of the PHP community, one article posted each day. They've been running since December 1st and there's some great content in this year's batch already:

• How to become a good maintainer
• https://24daysindecember.net/2018/12/09/finite-resources-vs-infinite-knowledge/
• Open Source and Squeegee Men
• A love letter to legacy projects
• How a user group can change your live
• PHP and the secrets of emergent architecture

...and many more. Be sure to check out the full list and keep checking until December 24th of this year for more great articles from this year's 24 Days in December project.

The "24 Days in December" project is an effort to share "thoughts from the PHPamily", members of the PHP community from all levels of experience and "age" in the community. For the month of December they've posted several articles, each from a member of the community building up to Christmas. If you haven't been reading along, here's a selection of the posts so far:

• My Year in the PHP Community by Holger Woltersdorf
• Make a Difference by Adam Englander
• Kid Friendly PHP by Elena Kolevska
• My Journey into the PHP Community by Ekin Bayar
• The Power of the Language by * Ramon de la Fuente*

These are just a few of the great articles so far so be sure to check out the full list for perspectives and thoughts from other members of the community.

On the "24 Days in December" advent calendar there's an article posted from Kalle Sommer Nielsen that talks about some ways that you can give back to PHP including documentation updates, contributing to the core code and just helping out the community in general.

PHP has a tremendous community behind it, that community consists of you and me, and millions of others that help promote PHP by continuing to develop awesome applications that power some of the biggest websites in the world, but within this community exists a relatively small community that actively develops PHP, such as making it run on your favorite platform or making your favorite extensions compile and work or even keeps the documentation up-to-date. Today I want to dwell into that community, and perhaps giving you flavor enough to contribute back to PHP with code.

The article suggests several places you can give back including:

• updating and adding changes to the PHP manual documentation
• participating in the various project mailing lists
• reviewing pull requests on the project's GitHub repository
• writing tests for the untested parts of the language

Kalle wraps up the article talking about his own experience with the language over the years and how it ended up that he was the one to remove register_globals from the language one day.