Author: Rachel Foucard
I am currently working as Compliance Officer for the TYPO3 Association, where I focus on ethical and legal compliance, European digital regulation, governance processes, transparency, mediation topics, and long-term sustainability for the TYPO3 ecosystem. I originally started building websites with TYPO3 in 2005 and co-founded W-Seils in 2009, a french TYPO3 agency. From 2020 to 2026, I served on the TYPO3 Association Board with responsibilities covering budgeting, elections, events, governance processes, diversity & inclusion, and ethical and legal compliance. I am leading the TYPO3 UX Team since several years and coordinated the TYPO3 Product Strategy Group between 2024 and 2025. I enjoy connecting technical, organizational, and human topics together, especially when it helps open source projects become more mature, sustainable, and trustworthy. I tend to be direct, pragmatic, collaborative, and optimistic, with a strong focus on consistency, fairness, and teamwork.
Ten Quotes That Captured the Spirit of the UN Open Source Week
What does digital sovereignty really mean? At the UN Open Source Week in New York, one panel tackled that question through a series of memorable insights on collaboration, security, sustainability, and public investment.
Read moreTYPO3 Association Joins the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group
As the Cyber Resilience Act reshapes responsibilities for open source stewards, the TYPO3 Association takes its compliance efforts to the next level by joining a dedicated working group.
Transparency Within, Readability Beyond: Announcing the TYPO3 Compliance Officer Mandate
Compliance doesn't have to mean bureaucracy. Rachel Foucard shares how a structural gap in the 2026 Board election became an opportunity to build something more meaningful: a dedicated framework for trust, governance, and regulatory readiness within the TYPO3 Association.
The Circle of Life: Plan, Do, Check, Act, Repeat for the TYPO3 Project
How do we organize TYPO3 product development to both innovate, improve, and maintain? The Product Strategy Group introduces the Shewhart/Deming cycle for continuous improvement of product and process through community.
Roadmap for TYPO3 v14 — the High-Level Objectives and Strategic Goals
TYPO3 v14 LTS is scheduled for release at the end of April 2026. The Product Strategy Group has plans for ground-breaking changes to our favorite CMS. With your help, it will be the most significant release in years.
TYPO3 Visits AFUP Day 2024 in Poitiers
This year, the TYPO3 France committee is looking to increase its contacts with the French PHP community by taking part in forums, meetups and other events. With this in mind, we decided to pay a visit to our friends, the PHP developers at AFUP Day 2024, in Poitiers.
Annual Report of the TYPO3 UX Team — 2023
The UX Team helps to improve and maintain the TYPO3 User Experience. The main goal of this team is to work on UX improvements for TYPO3 existing features and also to collaborate on building any new feature during the concept process if help is wanted.
The Power of Harmony! — Announcing the Community Mediation Policy
The TYPO3 Community Mediation Policy aims to provide arbitration, mediation, and general help in conflict resolution. Mediation is an effective way to maintain harmony. Read on to find out more about how TYPO3 is working to establish a process for complaint handling and dispute resolution.
The Importance of Trust! — Announcing the Conflict of Interest Management Policy
The TYPO3's Conflict of Interest Policy aims to ensure that the collective interests of the TYPO3 community prevail over personal interests by exercising our responsibilities and making our decisions impartially, objectively, and independently.
UX and TYPO3—the Challenges for the Next Five Years
During the T3DD22, Annett Jähnichen and Rachel Foucard presented the TYPO3 UX Team and its work. With this article we would like to give you an overview of the UX strategy we are building for TYPO3 for the next five years.