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 Daniel Siepmann, Germany (Application Podcast S2E02)
Daniel Siepmann is a TYPO3 developer, integrator, and co-founder of his own web agency, Codappix GmbH, who is also very involved in the TYPO3 community. We have him to thank for his many contributions to the TYPO3 Guidebook. Today we talk about Daniel’s involvement in the TYPO3 community, his advice for becoming a better developer, and his favorite aspects of TYPO3.
Read moreMeet Annett Jähnichen, Germany (Application Podcast S2E01)
Annett Jähnichen is a TYPO3 integrator and developer at webit!, a web agency in Dresden, Germany. Annett has 11 years of experience with TYPO3, and in her daily work, she transports the HTML and CSS from the front end department into TYPO3 templates, in addition to developing applications for customers. She is also a powerful force behind the TYPO3 structured content initiative, which we talk more about in this episode.
Application Podcast: Season One Wrap-Up, Season Two Preview!
In this episode, Carl Richards comes out from behind the production equipment at Open Strategy Partners, and interviews Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire about how the podcast started, the goals it’s reached toward in the first season, what’s coming up for the second season, and the podcast becoming part of the official TYPO3 media family.
Meet Volker Graubaum (Part 3), Chief Product Officer, TYPO3, Germany (Application Podcast S1E13)
In today’s episode, we rejoin my epic conversation with TYPO3 Chief Product Officer, Volker Graubaum, for part three of three. We talk about TYPO3 as a community product, communication as part of product development, and breaking down TYPO3’s theme-based roadmap. If you haven’t heard the first two parts, you can find them wherever you’re listening to me now.
Meet Volker Graubaum (Part 2), Chief Product Officer, TYPO3, Germany (Application Podcast S1E12)
In today’s exciting episode of Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast, you’ll hear the second part of a conversation I had with Volker Graubaum. We learn about TYPO3’s ability to be headless before it was cool, how Volker uses “community and market listening” to guide TYPO3, and how good storytelling can help you break into new markets.
Meet Volker Graubaum (part 1 of 3!), Chief Product Officer of TYPO3, Germany (Application Podcast S1E11)
Today’s episode of Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast, features Volker Graubaum, the Chief Product Officer of TYPO3. Volker sees his role as CPO as being responsible for, as he puts it, “the product TYPO3.” We get into the idea of community software and a community product, his vision for serving the TYPO3 community, and how he is working with Benni Mack (and all of us) as a market tester and solution promoter, “to bring focus to further development.”
Meet Sybille Peters, Germany (Application Podcast S1E10)
Today we speak with Sybille Peters, a Germany-based developer who’s responsible for the web presence at the University of Oldenburg. She is also very active on the TYPO3 Community Documentation Team. We talk about the joys of open source community, contribution, and collaboration in the TYPO3 community, her favorite features TYPO3 has to offer, and improvements for developers in the future. Please note, there are small sound quality issues in this episode that we apologize for.
Meet Andri Steiner, TYPO3 Server Team Lead, Switzerland (Application Podcast S1E9)
By night, Andri Steiner is the TYPO3 Server Team Lead, where he focuses on hosting and configuring servers, and keeping the community’s digital infrastructure up-(to-date) and running. By day, he’s a CTO and Partner at Ops One, living and working in Zürich, Switzerland, where, he says, “We do our own web applications, like backends for mobile apps, or usual websites or whatever our customers want us for.”
Meet Mathias Schreiber, TYPO3 GmbH CEO, Germany (Application Podcast S1E8)
Mathias Schreiber’s journey to become the CEO of the TYPO3 GmbH was not especially purposeful, but that’s part of what makes it so fascinating. He talks about how he first became aware of TYPO3, participating in the open source community, his abrupt transition to CEO, and the values that guide the TYPO3 GmbH today.
Meet Benni Mack, Part 2: TYPO3 Core Project Lead, Germany (Application Podcast S1E7)
As we cover in Part 1, Benni Mack has been working with TYPO3 since 2007, and he’s currently the TYPO3 Core Development Lead. He also co-founded b13, based in Stuttgart, Germany, which builds web-based solutions for customers around the world using open source technologies like TYPO3.