# My first open source contribution: Chronos

I have been involved with open source for a couple of years now. However, my involvement has always revolved around organizing events for the [Montreal WordPress community](http://wpmtl.org). Except for a handful of pull requests and small jQuery plugins, I never created anything I felt would be useful to share. I am slowly trying to change that. While I have a huge respect for Automattic as a company, I can't think of a company that I admire more than GitHub. One of their mantras I always wanted to follow was [open source (almost) everything](http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html). So since I started my current project, I have tried to keep my code as modular as I could so I could open source most of it if I could. I didn't really have a great opportunity till recently when I started needing recurring jobs that I could manage in PHP. I needed something that could manage both crontab like [Whenever](https://github.com/javan/whenever), but also handle recurring jobs programmatically a bit like [wp\_cron](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_cron) does. I looked and couldn't find a library or set of libraries to do this. I felt this was a good opportunity to try to get something out so I made one and I am open sourcing it today as [Chronos](https://github.com/helthe/Chronos). I'll have a followup Symfony2 bundle available in a few days.