Being TYPO3 at SymfonyCon Disneyland, Paris

Symfony Docs

I, being the TYPO3 Documentation Team co-lead, was especially interested in meeting the Symfony Documentation Team. I had an inspiring conversation with Ryan Weaver, their Documentation Team Lead.

Free and Paid Documentation

I especially liked their combination of free and paid documentation content. On SymfonyCasts.com they offer a large number of high quality documentation videos. You can watch the first minutes of each video for free and then decide if you need to buy the video. 

The code-snippets and test questions and additional texts are available to everyone for free, financed by those who are willing to pay for high quality video content. It seems like a good concept to me.

“Coming from the Symfony documentation team, we wanted to add high-quality videos, but still make our work available to the entire community. We’ve been very lucky that the community supports us and we can then make the code and scripts free for everyone.”
—Ryan Weaver

Sharing Knowledge

Regarding the technology behind rendering and generating the documentation, it seems like both sides can learn from each other. We will definitely stay in contact.

“The world of documentors can be a lonely one! Being able to meet another team from a similar technology and compare strategies for code blocks, examples and maintenance is priceless.”
—Ryan Weaver

Tech Conferences - Great Opportunities to Learn

I attended several presentations at the conference of general interest. I heard a great talk about advanced Git tricks, one on general cyber security, and especially one about how attackers use social engineering to manipulate employees: “People don’t fall for these tricks because they are stupid but because they are human”.

I think that there is much that the Symfony project and TYPO3 can learn from each other!