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.
Read moreDocumentation Team Sweeping Week
The Documentation Team conducts a sweeping week every month, where we try to touch, address and close issues and PRs.
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.”
TYPO3 Mentorship Program 2021
The aim of the TYPO3 International Mentorship Program is to expand the reach of TYPO3 CMS, to grow the community and market. The coordinating committee conducted a successful pilot program in 2020, supporting young web developers from five countries to make their first steps into the TYPO3 world.
Documentation Screenshots—Puppeteer Makes Life Easy
This year, a special interest group was formed to update screenshots in the official TYPO3 documentation. Updating screenshots manually is tedious and boring. This article explains the really cool automatic solution we have devised, and we’re looking for people to help us make it even better.
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.
The TYPO3 Comparison Cards are Here!
In 2020—we, as the Marketing Team—decided and announced that we wanted to focus on creating a variety of fact and figure-based materials, which should help agencies sell TYPO3 better. Our biggest project was to create the Comparison Cards, comparing TYPO3 to the most popular alternatives on the market.
TYPO3 Wiki (2004–2021)—Long Live the Documentation
The TYPO3 Documentation Team is continuously working on improving the TYPO3 documentation—keeping it up to date, finding new and better ways to document and—equally important—removing outdated information.
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.”