AmsterdamPHP Monthly Meeting March 2026

It's been a while but FINALLY it's time for another AmsterdamPHP. Based on the amount of messages I received you all can't wait for another meetup!
This time we're hosted by MyWheels - thanks MyWheels for sponsoring our meetup!

Program

• 19:00 Doors open
• 19:30 Opening
• 19:35 Venue introduction
• 19:40 Main talk: Pauline Vos - No OSS, No Users: Why Investing in Open Source Matters
• 20:30 Raffles & announcements
• 20:45 Food & socializing

No OSS, No Users: Why Investing in Open Source Matters
Pauline is a software engineer and tech conference speaker based in Amsterdam. She works across the stack with a few different languages. Her favorite is Rust, but PHP has her heart 4ever <3.
She likes contributing to open source and doing hacky stuff like CTFs.

Pauline about her talk:
At MongoDB, I help maintain the open-source tools that help PHP developers use our product. Without active, stable OSS, we shrimply wouldn't have any users.
In this session, I'll share why open source is essential to your product's success, and how to get involved in the ecosystems that support it. Through real-world examples, you'll learn strategies for contributing effectively, the value of community trust, and getting leadership buy-in to invest engineering time in OSS.
You'll leave with practical ways to strengthen your product by strengthening its open-source foundations.

Location
MyWheels / Zandkasteel Amsterdam, Bijlmerplein 888, Amsterdam