Community Corner Podcast: elePHPants with Damien Seguy

In this episode, Scott talks with Damien Seguy about the history of the elePHPant, from Vincent Pontier’s logo doodle to 6,054 plush toys in Damien’s home, how the community trades them through the Community Postal Service, and what it takes to create your own. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:52 How the PHP logo became an elephant 03:53 Turning the logo into a plush toy 05:29 elePHPants for user groups, companies and conferences 07:56 Trading and the Community Postal Service 10:25 The chocolate factory handoff 15:55 How to create your own elePHPant 19:17 Colors, nails and accessories 24:33 Scratchy: elePHPants for small user groups 27:39 Exakat and the PHP onboarding book Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Mentioned in this episode: Exakat static analysis engine – https://www.exakat.io/ PHP onboarding book (feedback welcome) – https://thephpbook.readthedocs.io/en/latest Damien’s Links: Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/dseguy.bsky.social Mastodon – https://phpc.social/@dseguy GitHub – https://github.com/dseguy Scott’s Links: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/scottkeckwarren.bsky.social LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-keck-warren-91689810/ Mastodon – https://phpc.social/@scottkeckwarren PHP Architect Social Media: X: https://x.com/phparch Mastodon: https://phparch.social/@phparch Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/phparch.com Discord: https://discord.phparch.com Subscribe to our magazine: https://www.phparch.com/subscribe/ Partners This podcast is made a little better thanks to our partners. OurCVEs Your security posture, on autopilot with OurCVEs CodeRabbit Cut code review time & bugs in half instantly with CodeRabbit. PHP Architect Consulting Your PHP codebase deserves a partner, not a contractor PHP Architect provides long-term technical partnerships for organizations that need senior-level PHP expertise that you can depend on https://www.phparch.com/consulting/ Music provided by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ The post Community Corner Podcast: elePHPants with Damien Seguy appeared first on PHP Architect.