First Call for Community Budget Ideas in 2026

The first call for community budget ideas for 2026 is open. Submit your idea before 31 December 2025. Decisions will be announced at the end of January 2026.

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The budget idea process has been updated to better support contributors and ensure meaningful project delivery. These are the key changes:

Starting in 2026, we move from four quarterly cycles to three cycles per year: 

• February to April
• May to August
• September to November

This gives idea owners more time to work on their projects while still keeping the process flexible and accessible.

Each cycle now consists of two parallel tracks, each accounting for 50% of the available funding:

1. Community-Submitted Ideas (50%) — Anyone in the TYPO3 community can propose an idea. The community votes — and the top two community ideas will be funded.
2. Official Team Ideas (50%) — TYPO3 committees and official teams can submit project ideas. Community members may then apply to work on these initiatives. TYPO3 Association members vote on these applications, and the top two team ideas will be funded.

This means up to four funded initiatives per cycle — two from the community, two from the official teams.

The €1,500 option has been removed.

You can now apply for one of the following fixed funding amounts:

• €3,000
• €5,000
• €7,500
• €10,000

A company may participate only once per cycle, which means a maximum of three ideas per year. The submission form now requires you to specify the company that will later issue the invoice.

With the upcoming release of TYPO3 v14 LTS, we aim to avoid placing additional workload on the core development team. Therefore, in the first funding round, we will not accept any submissions that propose changes or enhancements to the TYPO3 core.

The recipient must finish the project within the mentioned time frame. The Business Control Committee (BCC) will review the outcome of the idea and if the goal of the idea is reached, the budget will be paid out to the recipient.

The BCC will assign one mentor from the BCC Team to each budget recipient to help on topics like budgeting, project planning, communication, and connections inside the TYPO3 Community. Our goal is to support you to finish your idea with the best possible outcome for the TYPO3 Community.

After submitting your idea, we will encourage the community and all applicants to discuss the idea in the Community Budget Ideas 2026 Round One category at talk.typo3.org. You can review the idea with the community and get support for it in order to fine tune the idea before the submission.

• The results of the idea must be publicly available.
• The results of the idea should foster and benefit the TYPO3 community and/or TYPO3 project.
• The idea should not directly generate funds for the applicant nor enable the applicant to generate earnings from it.
• Per applicant, only one budget per round will be granted.
• The idea and deliverables can not be changed once the member voting has started.

The BCC will review the applications. If the idea requires collaboration with a team or another community member, we will get in contact with all parties and discuss how it can be achieved in the best possible way. The same applies to similar ideas.

Before submitting your idea, we encourage all applicants to discuss the idea in the Community Budget Ideas Q1/2026 category at talk.typo3.org. You can review the idea with the community and get support for it in order to fine tune the idea before the submission.

We kick off the process for the idea submissions for 2026 with the call for community budget ideas. We ask the community to submit their ideas they wish to work on within the next 20 days. The BCC will check and publish the ideas. The TYPO3 members can vote for the ideas. The top four ideas will be granted for implementation within the first time frame of 2026.

We have a total of € 40,000 available for the ideas. You can apply for funding in each round. Individuals and teams can also apply.

• 11 December 2025 — Announcement — Call for budget First Round in 2026
• 31 December 2025 — Deadline for submission of budget ideas
• 6 January 2026 — Ideas will be published and voting process starts
• 20 January 2026 — Voting process ends
• 23 Januar 2026 — Budgets granted
• 1 February 2026 — Work on idea projects start
• 30 April 2026 — Work on idea projects end

Use the Idea Submission — T3A Budget 2026 — First Round form to submit your idea. We will read your submission carefully and come back with questions and suggestions on how to proceed to get your idea up and running in Q1/2026.

Submissions are open until 31 December 2025.

The member poll on the ideas will be held in January 2026, and decisions announced at the end of January 2026.

If you have any questions in the meantime, feel free to leave a comment or use the channel #t3a-budget-committee on TYPO3 Slack.

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