TYPO3 Community January 2013

TYPO3 CMS 6.1 - Improve

After the major release of TYPO3 CMS 6.0 and hard work that was done for the release the release team geared down a bit. Benni Mack took over the position of release manager from Helmut Hummel. The base tone for the 6.1 release will be ‘Improve’. The goal will be to improve in any kind of way, not just code-wise. Improve the communication, improve the contributions, improve the product. Starting this year the team picked up on the weekly release team meetings again and is working towards the release of TYPO3 CMS 6.1 on April 30.

News-item: https://typo3.org/news/article/typo3-cms-61-improve/
Project page: http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v61/wiki/Wiki

Flow and Neos

Robert Lemke worked on a blog plugin for Neos and this now powers his blog. As Robert mentions in his blog entry this plug-in shows the powerful rendering mechanism of TypoScript 2 and Fluid to work. As more websites get Neos powered, documentation is also coming your way. Documentation for Flow and Neos is evolving with great support from the documentation team. Work on a Neos Integrator Guide has started. You will be able to find all Neos and Flow related documents on docs.typo3.org.

Work for Flow comprised custom configuration files, a uniqueness validator, CDN support for Rackspace and of course the usual bugfixing.

News-item: https://typo3.org/news/article/typo3-neos-and-flow-january-2013/

Explanation of the T3A 2013 budget

2013 is the first year that the Expert Advisory Board deals with the budget. This time the process was fully transparent and the budgets were published and discussed online. The members of the TYPO3 Association also had the chance to vote on the budgets in a poll. 204 of the roughly 800 members (25%) took part in the poll. Based on the input of these TYPO3 Associations members the EAB discussed each budget application in detail on the 8th and 9th of January 2013. The EAB contacted some of the budget applicants to clarify questions and discuss alternatives. The result of the budget allocation is a balance between continuity and renewment.

News-item: http://typo3.org/news/article/explanation-of-the-t3a-2013-budget/

Google Summer of Code preparations

GSoC is a program by Google to fund OpenSource projects, like TYPO3, by enabling student developers to contribute to OpenSource projects over a three month period.

The GSoC team is currently collecting ideas for projects from the community. A wiki page has been set  up to collect these ideas.  There is a pretty good collection of ideas for TYPO3 CMS, but we still need some entries for Flow and Neos. The application period for projects to GSoC will start at 18th of March. The closing date is March 29.

If you have an idea for Google Summer of Code then head over to the GSoC Ideas page and submit your idea.

Website: http://wiki.typo3.org/Gsoc2013
News-item: http://typo3.org/news/article/ideas-for-google-summer-of-code-2013/

Coming events

CMS Garden @ CeBIT (March 5-9, Hannover)

CMS-GARDEN will be the place where the most relevant Open Source Content Management Systems will present themselves side by side. TYPO3 together with the most relevant Open Source Content Management Systems, like Contao, Drupal, Joomla, OpenCMS and Plone will be present itself in the CMS-GARDEN at CeBIT 2013. A group of people from these Open Source CMS communities will be working together to bring the event to life.

Website: http://cms-garden.org/
CeBIT page TYPO3: http://www.cebit.de/aussteller/typo3/Q286978

TYPO3camp Netherlands (March 9-10, Venlo)

The first TYPO3camp in the Netherlands will be held in Venlo on the campus of the University of Applied Sciences. Venlo is a stone's throw away from the German border, so this event will have international flavor, where the Dutch, German and international community can and should meet.

Website: http://www.typo3campvenlo.nl/en/

typo3.org code sprint (March 21-23, Wiesbaden)

The fifth typo3.org code sprint will be held from Thu March 21 - Sun March 24 in Wiesbaden. It will be a combined sprint again together with other teams. The agenda for the meeting will be set in the maintenance meeting end of January. If you are interested to join or sponsor the code sprint then send a mail to info@typo3.org clearly stating “typo3.org code sprint” in the subject line.

Inspiring Flow (April 19-24, Kolbermoor)

For the second time a conference dedicated to TYPO3 Flow, TYPO3 PHP framework, will be held in Kolbermoor, Germany. Inspiring Flow will have a fabulous line-up of high profile speakers. Several members of the Flow Core Team will offer talks as well as well known members of communities relevant for Flow such as Composer and Doctrine.

Website: http://inspiring-flow.com/

5th Annual North American TYPO3 Conference (May 30-31, San Francisco)

The Fifth North American TYPO3 Conference (T3CON NA) will take place from May 30-31, 2013 in San Francisco, California. Held at the Golden Gate Club in The Presidio of San Francisco, this year's conference will allow TYPO3 experts and those interested in TYPO3 to share all aspects of the current state of development and implementations of this worldwide market-leading Content Management System (CMS).

Website: http://t3con-na.typo3.org/

Community Manager Corner

I have just recently created a page in the community section of typo3.org with info on what I do for the TYPO3 project and how to contact me. The page provides information on how and where to reach me. If you have any question and/or remarks regarding the TYPO3 community, then check out the community pages.  If you have any further questions please contact me. You will get an answer!

Page: http://typo3.org/community/community-manager-corner/

Check out the events section on the typo3.org homepage to find an event in your area.