--- title: Welcome Morton and Jan and kudos to Nicole url: "https://news.typo3.com/article/welcome-morton-and-jan-and-kudos-to-nicole" description: We are very happy to introduce two new members to the TYPO3 Active Contributors team as of this week. image: "https://news.typo3.com/_assets/d1e01514e4c4a5b3147940fa2ec50682/Images/og-image-news.jpg" date: 2026-06-11 modified: 2026-06-11 categories: - "Developer & Technology" - "Showcase & Success" --- # Welcome Morton and Jan and kudos to Nicole - [Showcase & Success](https://news.typo3.com/article/category/showcase-success) - [Developer & Technology](https://news.typo3.com/article/category/developer-technology) Welcome Morton and Jan and kudos to Nicole ========================================== 17 September 2015 We are very happy to introduce two new members to the TYPO3 Active Contributors team as of this week. - ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/4c0b48d8963f7234e3fd91fc89e3c05c.jpeg)[Mathias Schreiber](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/mathias-schreiber) ![](https://news.typo3.com/uploads/RTEmagicC_nikolaifleet.jpg.jpg) ### Jan Helke Jan Helke has been very active, especially during codesprints where he spends a lot of time onboarding people new to the TYPO3 universe. If you don’t know him yet, you definitely should attend one of the events where Jan is present. You’ll love his calm and empathic style of communication while still being highly focussed and professional when it comes to code. What’s truly remarkable about Jan is that he is neither a Freelancer nor working in a web-agency but is part of the internal TYPO3 team of Kuehne + Nagel, one of the biggest logistics companies on the planet. ###   ### Morton Jonuschat ![](https://news.typo3.com/uploads/RTEmagicC_Morton_Jonuschat.jpg.jpg)Morton Jonuschat shines because of his incredible eye for details and is the driving force behind the initiative to make TYPO3 work with more database systems. Next to putting a lot of effort and passion into TYPO3 you can find him on a lot of TYPO3 events. Just like Jan he is just as funny as he is clever, making a night out with him an evening to remember. Both Jan and Morton are willing to take over all responsibilities of an Active Contributor to the TYPO3 project and we all are proud they want to be part of our team. ### Nicole Cordes ![](https://news.typo3.com/uploads/RTEmagicC_nicole_t3dd12_500x500_360.jpg.jpg)Another person we would like to put a focus on is Nicole Cordes. In every open source project you have a couple of people who run kind of under the radar. Although Nicole attends almost every codesprint we think not everybody in the outside world is really aware of how much she is actually contributing. Did you know what Nicole is heavily involved in fixing those nasty security issues? Or that she takes care of a lot of backports into the 4.5 and 6.2 branches? Or that she works hard for making TYPO3 run on windows environments? Or that most of the PSR-7 handling in the backend code went over her desk? Point is that Nicole deserves a lot more appreciation than she gets and we’d like to take the chance to say “Thank you” for her brilliant work - mostly in the parts of the core only few dare to touch. There are a lot more people working in TYPO3 than you might think so you can expect more infos on these “unsung heroes”. Stay tuned. ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/6c423a6b1ef756e8f43713af49170e71.jpeg) About the Author [Mathias Schreiber](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/mathias-schreiber) Düsseldorf, Germany [Website](https://typo3.com)[Twitter](https://twitter.com/mattLefaux)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathias-schreiber-5487b659)[Xing](https://www.xing.com/profile/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. [More posts by this author](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/mathias-schreiber)