BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Meetup//Meetup Calendar 1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH NAME:AmsterdamPHP X-WR-CALNAME:AmsterdamPHP BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_313285180@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20260304T221024Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260319T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260319T220000 SUMMARY:AmsterdamPHP Monthly Meeting March 2026 DESCRIPTION:AmsterdamPHP\nIt's been a while but FINALLY it's time for anot her AmsterdamPHP. Based on the amount of messages I received you all can't wait for another meetup!\nThis time we're hosted by **MyWheels** \\- than ks MyWheels for sponsoring our meetup\\!\n\n**Program**\n\n* **19:00** Doo rs open\n* **19:30** Opening\n* **19:35** Venue introduction\n* **19:40** *Main talk:* **Pauline Vos -** No OSS\, No Users: Why Investing in Open So urce Matters\n* **20:30** Raffles & announcements\n* **20:45** Food & soci alizing\n\n**No OSS\, No Users: Why Investing in Open Source Matters**\nPa uline is a software engineer and tech conference speaker based in Amsterda m. She works across the stack with a few different languages. Her favorite is Rust\, but PHP has her heart 4ever <3.\nShe likes contributing to open source and doing hacky stuff like CTFs.\n\n*Pauline about her talk:*\nAt MongoDB\, I help maintain the open-source tools that help PHP developers u se our product. Without active\, stable OSS\, we shrimply wouldn't have an y users.\nIn this session\, I'll share why open source is essential to you r product's success\, and how to get involved in the ecosystems that suppo rt it. Through real-world examples\, you'll learn strategies for contribut ing effectively\, the value of community trust\, and getting leadership bu y-in to invest engineering time in OSS.\nYou'll leave with practical ways to strengthen your product by strengthening its open-source foundations.\n \n**Location**\nMyWheels / Zandkasteel Amsterdam\, Bijlmerplein 888\, Amst erdam URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/amsterdamphp/events/313285180/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260209T210259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260209T210259Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.meetup.com/AmsterdamPHP/events/ical/ X-WR-CALNAME:AmsterdamPHP END:VCALENDAR