On his site today Fabien Potencier shares some wonderful news for the Symfony community - Sensio has raised 5 million Euros to help boost the Symfony project and its ecosystem.

Fund raising in the PHP world does not happen that often, and that makes me sad. Of course, PHP has big players like Automattic, Acquia, or Zend, but the PHP world has so many great solutions, great products, and a large community of very talented developers. They deserve more exposure and I hope that our fund raising is one small step into that direction.

As far as their plans on what to do with the funds, they're talking about a few options - improvement of the whole ecosystem around the framework, hiring developers dedicated to the work SensioLabs does for the framework and things like SensioLabs Insight.