introduction to PHP evangelism

Hi all, Thanks for James to introduce the PHP evangelism to all the new PHP evangelism site. This will be the introductory text, and you'll see again most of ideas that when thrown in during today's messages. Yes, they are also our goal, and you are welcomed to participate. The PHP evangelism group has for main goal to provide information, figures and studies to help the adoption of PHP as a professional language. We believe that PHP is an industrial-strength web programming language, that only lacks some visibility to IT managers. There are several area where PHP visibility may be improved : * About PHP itself, it's use and recognition has to be shown. This can be achieved by business case, case study, testimonials and industry statistics. * For PHP related companies, a place for them to show their providing professional tools and applications (both for doing and using PHP). * Path the way for PHP future, and provide visibility for the next 5 years. There are hundreds of companies using PHP right now. 6 out of 10 biggest French Websites use PHP. PHP is ask in 15% of job offers, second to java only. PHP is present on 40 to 50% of all websites in the world (best score for Mauritius). All those are hard figures, and will be available for download to everyone who is pushing PHP solution into his company or association. Our goal is to give back to PHP it's seat as best web language. Everyone will be able to learn how PHP can suits their need.