Author: Jeffrey A. McGuire
In demand as a global keynote speaker and communications expert, "Jam" has built a strong following at the intersection of open source software, business, and culture. Over the last decade, while helping Acquia grow from 18 to 800 employees, he created value-multiplying connections between people, companies, and projects in the open source, government, and business worlds. His unique approach to content marketing–making human stories out of complex technology solutions and celebrating the expertise and success of their creators–left its mark on the company and the open source communities around it.
Meet Thomas “Spoony” Löffler, TYPO3 Freelancer and Contributor, Germany (Application Podcast S02E13)
In this episode, we speak with TYPO3 Team Lead Thomas “Spoony” Löffler, a developer and contributor to TYPO3 since 2005. Thomas loves attending TYPO3 events, and he also runs his own one-person TYPO3 agency, Spooner Web. We speak about his extensive experience with TYPO3, his love for TYPO3 events, and the support he’s received and given to the TYPO3 community.
Read moreMeet Tymoteusz Motylewski, TYPO3 Core Contributor, Poland (Application Podcast S02E12)
In this episode, we hear from Tymoteusz “Tymek” Motylewski, Co-Founder and CTO of Macopedia and TYPO3 Core contributor. Today, we discuss his introduction to the TYPO3 community in the early 2000s, his favorite features and hidden gems of TYPO3, and his work helping make TYPO3 a powerful and easy to set up headless CMS.
Meet Susi Moog, TYPO3 GmbH COO, Germany (Application Podcast S02E11)
In this episode, we hear from Susi Moog, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the TYPO3 GmbH. Today we learn about how she first came to know and use TYPO3, what her day-to-day role consists of, and how the TYPO3 GmbH enhances the CMS technology and supports the community, agencies, and professionals within it.
Meet Petra Hasenau, TYPO3 Association Board Vice-President, Germany (Application Podcast S02E10)
In this episode, I speak with Petra Hasenau, the TYPO3 Association Board Vice President and the CEO of cybercraft GmbH. Today, we cover her introduction to TYPO3 and open source, her inclusive approach to community building, and her cooking channel!
Meet Jochen Weiland, TYPO3 Teacher, Contributor, Hoster, Germany (Application Podcast S02E09)
In this episode, I speak with Jochen Weiland, who has been involved with TYPO3 since 2002 and runs a full-service TYPO3 agency, jweiland.net. We talked about his significant contributions to the TYPO3 documentation, how he learned the open source ethos from the TYPO3 founder himself, Kasper Skårhøj, as well as Jochen's favorite aspects of TYPO3.
Meet Mathias Bolt Lesniak, TYPO3 Board Member, Norway (Application Podcast S02E07)
In this episode, I speak with Mathias Bolt Lesniak, a TYPO3 Board Member and valued TYPO3 Guidebook contributor who also works at the Scandinavian agency, Pixelant. In this episode we speak about Mathias’s favorite TYPO3 features, TYPO3 as a force for democratization in the world, and the give-and-take of open source contribution that characterizes the TYPO3 community.
Meet Larry Garfield, TYPO3 Core Developer, Chicago (Application Podcast S02E07)
In this episode, I speak with Larry Garfield, a long-time PHP developer who has joined the TYPO3 core development team in 2021. We talk about the history of PHP and open source, Larry’s “scorched Earth” campaign against PHP 4 (his words), and what it’s like to be embraced by the TYPO3 community as a newbie.
Meet Stefan Busemann, Multi-talented TYPO3 Contributor, Germany (Application Podcast S02E06)
In this episode, I speak with Stefan Busemann. Stefan began TYPO3 in 2005, rapidly became a TYPO3 freelance developer, then a TYPO3 agency founder and owner around 2010. In that time, he has been a huge contributor to the project in many ways. He was a TYPO3 Association Board member for many years. Today, he is still Supervisory Board Member of TYPO3 GmbH and a member of the TYPO3.org website team.
Meet Adrian Zimmermann, TYPO3 OG, Switzerland (Application Podcast S02E05)
Today we speak with Adrian Zimmermann, TYPO3 enthusiast and professional since (practically) the start. We talk about Adrian’s TYPO3 origin story and how his company, Snowflake Productions got its start, his favorite TYPO3 features, the interesting and varied work he’s created with the system, and TYPO3’s abundant community power and spirit … and snowboarding. Listen in to find out more about, “How snowboarding and open source taste so sweet together.”
Meet Daniel Homorodean, TYPO3 Expansion Leader, Romania (Application Podcast S2E03)
Today we speak with Daniel Homorodean, a Romania-based CEO of web development agency Arxia, and a leader of the TYPO3 Expansion Committee. Talk about Daniel’s 15 years of experience with TYPO3, the most important factors of TYPO3 international expansion, and how TYPO3 helps you tackle more advanced projects than you could before.