It was started in the end of 2014 both to serve as the place to get news about Yii in convenient way and as an educational project. Education-wise project is very far from being perfect. Improvements are welcome.
It is open sourced at GitHub under BSD license. You've very welcome to contribute in form of issue reports and pull requests.
Initially the project was created by Alexander Makarov and Cvigun Vadim.
In 2017 new design was proposed by Anna Bezborodova and implemented by Nikola Trifunović.
Currently YiiFeed is maintained and hosted by Alexander. You can check all contributors at GitHub.
Alexander is currently seeking for patronage to work on OpenSource fulltime so if you like this project and Yii in general, consider sponsorship.