TYPO3 Camp Munich 2026: A Barcamp That Still Delights a Regular

TYPO3 Camp Munich is a barcamp run by the local user group, TYPO3 User Group München e.V., and held in German.

I've been in and out of the TYPO3 community for the better part of 20 years. These days I try to catch most TYPO3 camps every year, and this was my third TYPO3 Camp Munich in a row.

What I see at these camps is a regular influx of first-timers alongside the regulars. For me, that's an encouraging sign of new people streaming in, and a good signal of community health.

I'm not local to Munich. From Northern Germany it's about six hours by train so I came a day early for in2code's LUX User eXperience Day, a smaller satellite event on the Friday.

Like last year, this year's camp took place at the PUC cultural center. It’s cozy and just the right size for the event. You spend the day there and stay for the evening social event, without traveling halfway across the city.

At a TYPO3 Camp, you never know what you're going to get. Each day starts with planning. The organizers first ask who would like to hear about something specific. For example, if you're new to TYPO3 and have no idea how Fluid works, you can stand up and ask, and a developer might offer to hold a session on it.

Then attendees can pitch their own sessions. People like to show off things they've built, give demos, kick off discussions, or repeat talks delivered at other events like the TYPO3 Developer Days.

I gave two: RAG with TYPO3 on Saturday and Infrastructure as Code on Sunday. In the first one, I explained how to build a chatbot for your TYPO3 site using a Solr search index and Symfony AI, whereas the second session was more about infrastructure automation.

Many people are under the misapprehension that TYPO3 camps are exclusively targeted at developers. Yes, there are plenty of developers, but this year’s program, as usual, was a mix of tech, development, business, creativity, and design.

There was, of course, tons of AI. Developers are asking how AI changes the way they work, and agencies are asking how it changes their business. The session plan shows how far it went, from agentic coding to MCP to making money with AI.

The sustainability of community events got its own three-part series, led by Niklas Bruhn: a roundtable, a workshop, and a results discussion. How can teams organizing local TYPO3 camps work together? How do you find sponsors, advertise your event, and attract participants? Every local camp faces the same marketing questions, so it’s great to see organizers sharing what works instead of figuring it out alone.