Week ending February 28

TYPO3 CMS

The TYPO3 CMS crew has been working hard on the major topics this week with a focus on performance, stability and adding the last bits of the puzzle with regards to file and package handling, enabling TYPO3 CMS to use Composer-based packages out-of-the-box. The possibility to install distributions as pre-packaged flavours of the core packages has been introduced with the latest beta, released two weeks ago.

Themes

Last week we wrote about T3DUST and Themes. The 'Theme Packages - Basis for TYPO3 CMS Design-Themes' fund raiser is running until March 6 and can still use your support. Read all about it on the page and consider your support.

Release parties

If anything the release of the upcoming Long Term Support version needs to be celebrated. The TYPO3 CMS crew chose 'Here To stay' as the motto for the upcoming release and a WIKI page to find or add your favourite party has already received several entries.

A release party can be anything from an informal get together in the bar to a full blown party with pizza, beer and fireworks. As long as the topic it is TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS. Don't be shy and add your release party.

Victoria Haag from mit überblick has prepared a package with banners (zip download) you can use to announce your release party.

TYPO3 Flow and Neos

TYPO3blogger

Peter Kraume let us know that they have two tickets available for the coming Inspiring conference. As a media partner of the conference they have the pleasure to give away 2 tickets for the conference worth 320 Euros each! If your write or have written a blog post or article about any topic related to TYPO3 Flow or TYPO3 Neos (e.g. coding examples, tutorials, showcases, planned features) you to can win a ticket.

You can find the details of how to win a ticket in the article: Write about TYPO3 Flow or Neos and win a ticket for Inspiring Conference

Google Summer of Code

GsoC admin Christian Müller lets us know that the TYPO3 project has been selected for the fifth time for Google Summer of Code 2014! How awesome it that to participate again amongst all those other Open Source projects again.

There is a WIKI page available where you can find the current ideas and you can add yours.

Please take a look at the Timeline for more information on deadlines. The TYPO3 GSoC team is busy setting things up. If you have any questions you can reach us at [email protected] or on IRC in #typo3-gsoc on Freenode.

Contribute to Fedext

The nameless coder and author of the Fedext, Fluid Powered TYPO3, Claus Due, lets us know on Twitter that Fedir RYKHTIK has written on how to contribute to the TYPO3 Fedext project.

Events

Internet World

With a number of enthusiastic volunteers we were at the CMS Garden booth at Internet World in Munich this past Tuesday and Wednesday. It was a good opportunity to meet up with the Munich TYPO3 crowd. Many people were very interested in TYPO3 Neos.

Thank you: Stefan Busemann, Patrick Lobacher, Sandra Hofmann and Guido Haase for representing TYPO3!

TYPO3camp Italy

From March 14 – 15 the TYPO3camp Italy will take place in Milan, effectively making it the first TYPO3camp of the year (not TYPO3camp Venlo as stated in a previous This Week).

Meet Magento and CMS Africa

Strange as it may sound I will visit Meet Magento in Madrid on Tuesday and Wednesday. Many Magento shops use TYPO3 and it is a good opportunity to have a first connection in Spain. The Spanish language area is big and we do not have to much activity there yet. Besides that fact the Meet Magento events are organised by Netresearch's Thomas Fleck, who sponsored a few TYPO3 conference video's. Together with Thomas I will be travelling to CMS Africa Summit.

CMS Africa Summit

will take place from March 7 – 8 in Nairobi, Kenya. The event wishes to bridge this gap by organizing conferences across the African continent that will bring experts from different leading CMS-es to offer workshops, lectures and hands-on on different issues ranging from installation, customizations, updates, security enhancements, backups, extensions, modules, and other related issues.

I will do a presentation about how the TYPO3 project evolved into a family of products in order to respond to change. My speaker profile gives some more info on this. The marketing team also decided to sponsor this event.

CMS Garden at CeBIT

From March 10 -14 CeBIT will take place again. CeBIT is the world’s leading business IT event. In 2014 CeBIT is all about business and will take place from March 10 - 14 in Hannover, Germany.

CMS Garden is an initiative where you will find all the relevant open source CMS-es in one place. You can compare, evaluate and decide. CMS Garden is a community driven event where attendants are not shy to share ideas and help each other out.

 

We have a good representation of people for the event in our 120 m2 area. Nevertheless we would like to see ore of the TYPO3 community represented at the CMS Garden booth. If you are willing to join in, for let's say a few hours or half a day, we welcome you to the booth and will provide you with a ticket for the CeBIT.

Send me a mail with some details about yourself and the day you are planning to come and I will get back to you with the details on how to participate.

 

Check out the events calendar for a user group meeting, code sprint or other event near you: http://typo3.org/events/. Do not hesitate to share you TYPO3 activities in 'This Week in TYPO3'. Just let me (@benvantende) know what you are up to.