Even though we are now a classical agency delivering development hours for several clients, we’re staying committed to the open source. It’s not always easy to find enough time to contribute but we’re doing our best in a few parallels:

1. Core Team Leadership. We’re holding regular monthly Sylius Core Team meetings, lead discussions and currently designing the new Sylius payment processing architecture. Our company hires 4 out of 12 Core Team Members, meaning we have at least a 25% stake in the direction of core Sylius development.

2. Plugins development. Once per month, we organise internal open-source “real life” hackathons. During these meetings, every CW member can tackle whatever task they want as long as it’s not our billable work, and it somehow contributes to the Sylius ecosystem. One of the key results of this initiative is the creation of the Saferpay Plugin Besides. Also Bought Plugin and Back in Stock Plugin. More in the making.

3. Evangelism via meetups & conferences. In the first year of our company’s existence, we were present at nearly 30 industry events. We organised part of them, we spoke from the stage at most of them, and if not - we were always there to share our Sylius experience during networking moments and social time. From 2023 we've been co-organising the PHPers Summit - the largest PHP conference in Poland. We've developed the event website and ticketing system, built and coordinated the international agenda, arranged the official chill zone, and taken care of many other minor tasks. All this has been mainly non-profit work.

4. Education via YouTube. We’ve already made some baby steps to become industry influencers. ;) Check out our channel and list of videos we are part of here. Mainly, you’ll find their recordings from conference speeches, and video casts with our partners like the “Good Craft” (orig. “Dobry Craft”) series where we talk software craftsmanship with SYZYGY Warsaw or “Unleash This” led by our US allies from Unleashed Technologies. PS. We’re working on our first paid video course. Stay tuned!

We'd like to dedicate even more time to community work, mainly through creating online courses. Our plans are:

1. Sylius Mastery - the freshest and most advanced Sylius learning program on the market based on the modules described below, and most importantly - a thorough and careful process of gathering requirements of a specific dev team. It covers 10 years of our experience as core maintainers and architects of the solution:

• Updates with current and upcoming versions of Sylius (1.13-2.0), incl. Symfony 6/7^, PHP 8^, and API Platform 2/3^
• Complex customizations, foundations of we will code within a few hours, together
• Integration with a selected (by you!) 3rd party app (if only it has API endpoints) or other Symfony-based systems often being connected when implementing Sylius - i.e. Sulu CMS
• Deep understanding of the test suite used in Sylius and how those tools could be used for every Sylius- and Symfony-based project

2. OOP / Best practices / PHP - as software craftsmanship practitioners we are eager to share with you all our secret tips & tricks that make us write any Sylius & Symfony code better and faster than most developers. Get the essentials to develop with PHP like a superhero!

• Clean-code practices, shown in real examples
• Refactoring techniques that help you improve your code and make it more reliable
• SOLID, DRY, KISS, YAGNI - and other fancy acronyms used for real and stunning effects
• Theory and practice of testing, together with the Test-Driven Development approach
• Introduction to Behavior-Driven Development, its philosophy, value it brings into the project, as well as practical implementations
• Use of static code analysis tools that help your application stay in shape

3. Software Testing Masterclass (STM) - we’ve begun working on the online course in the specialty of the house, crème de la crème of our rare experience in designing and maintaining the architecture of open-source software used by thousands of developers around the world - TESTING:

• Introduction to the world of testing, with an explanation of various test types and what benefits they give in your project
• Most important testing methodologies: BDD, TDD, etc.
• Popular testing tools and apps: PHPUnit, PHPSpec, etc.
• Advanced solutions allowing you to grow stronger bonds between business and technical people during the development process: Behat
• Static analysis tools: PHPStan, Psalm, PHP-CS-Fixer
• More!

If all this sounds interesting, donate or contact us for more information. ;)