Author: Mathias Schreiber

Mathias comes from a background in advertising in the music industry. After venturing into musical instrument wholesale he moved to the advertising side of things in the late 90s. His first contact with TYPO3 happened in 2001 when he became part of netfielders and was introduced closely to the TYPO3 community. After being an active member in the TYPO3 Association he took some time off community work to come back in 2013 by raising funds for the 6.2 release and later being sponsored as a full-time product owner in late 2014. In 2016 Mathias got chosen to become CEO of the TYPO3 GmbH in order to further foster the development and visibility of TYPO3 worldwide. In his few hours off TYPO3 a week he tries to master the guitar while living with his wife and dog in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Recap of TYPO3camp Venlo 2017

For the 5th time, the Barcamp in Venlo is a fixed date on our calendar - especially because it’s a nice mix of meeting old friends as well as making new ones.

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Support Possibilities in Open Source Communities

You are thinking about using an Open Source Software but are unsure whether you might get the same support that a paid software would have. In the following sections we’re presenting the different levels of support you can leverage for typical open source projects.

Why You Have to Consider Support Periods When Choosing Software

Choosing software is a difficult process. You need to find a solution that fits your needs, it has to have all the features you need and last but not least it needs to be reasonably priced.

SymfonyCon 2016 Recap

December 2016 began with a cool event in Berlin - SymfonyCon. We want to share our view on the event and most importantly how the PHP ecosystem in general and TYPO3 in particular are affected by this.

Hello World. Welcome to the TYPO3 GmbH.

One of the fundamental problems with doing a lot of stuff: Unless you tell what you are doing, people start to think you are not doing anything. So, we understand that the lack of communication in the past weeks wasn't good. Indeed, and we hope you understand, it was because we did a LOT of things. However, we'd like to say sorry and promise we'll do better in the near future.

Welcome Morton and Jan and kudos to Nicole

We are very happy to introduce two new members to the TYPO3 Active Contributors team as of this week.

Retaining compatibility to TYPO3 CMS 6

Maintaining compatibility between several TYPO3 versions can get tricky. But we have come up with a very simple way to make it easier for you.

The TYPO3 CMS Sprint Hamburg 2014, Germany

Right after the CMS Team meeting in Hannover 17 people met in sunny (*cough, cough*) Hamburg, Germany for another codesprint. Read about the results:

PHP minimum requirements for TYPO3 CMS 7

The next major version of TYPO3 CMS will be called 7 and will have PHP version 5.5 as its minimum PHP version. We consider this step vitally important to our new release strategy for several reasons.