Slightly more than a week ago the tenth TYPO3 Snowboardtour took place in the Austrian village of Zell am See. Over 100 TYPO3-geeks met for a week at the 2000 meters high Schmittenhöhe, to board and ski, further develop TYPO3 and to have a lot of fun together. T3n's Jan Tischler was there and reports on the events happening on the mountain.
Anyone that was ever attending the TYPO3 Snowboard Tour before can confirm that no other TYPO3 event conveys the spirit of TYPO3 better than T3BOARD. The community is at the center of T3BOARD, both during the day on the slopes and in the evening in the"nerdroom". Starting in 2002 with a handfull of TYPO3 enthusiasts around project leader Kasper Skårhøj (the only guy that actually attended each and every T3BOARD), TYPO3 nerds meet yearly in the snow.
Pics and Vids on T3BOARD11
This results, of course, in tons of <link http: t3board11.typo3.org fotos-auf-flickr.10.0.html _blank>photos and <link http: t3board11.typo3.org youtube-videos.7.0.html _blank>videos, that are bundled together with tweets and other information on the <link http: t3board11.typo3.org _blank>T3BOARD website. Speaking of videos: In the middle of the week André Westbunk and Christoph Möller recorded a video with a HD camera fixed on a light aircraft Model while all the TYPO3-geeks were on the ground forming a human TYPO3 logo as you can see on the above mentioned video page.
Soccer tournament
A nice tradition is the soccer tournament during the TYPO3 Snowboard Tour. This year, five teams competed for the title. In an exciting finale, "Team Northern Germany" was able to secure the title against "Team International" for the third time in a row.
After the soccer tournament, that took place in the valley of Zell am See, it was off to an open air concert by <link http: www.annaf.com _blank>Anna F. followed by a party. Around 2 o'clock the specially booked gondola took the nerds back to the 2.000 meter high Hotel Schmittenhöhe.
Bug Auction
Bidding for bugs and paying with beer - that's the slightly oblique sounding concept of the TYPO3 bug auction. As in any software, TYPO3 also has some bugs. Several core developers are attending the Snowboard Tour, so this is the best opportunity to fix bugs. To give the whole thing a casual setting some 20 bugs will be auctioned on an evening during the Snowboard Tour. Bidding were not done with money but with beers that were made available after the auction for consumption. An average bug made ??about 80 beers at a price of € 4 each. The winning bidder gets mentioned on typo3.org next to fame and glory. An overview of all auctioned bugs:
Bug Description | Person responsible for fixing | Winner | Number of Beers |
|---|---|---|---|
Inserting youtube URL in media does still not work | Julle | Julle (<link http: mocsystems.com _blank>MOC Systems) | 60 Beers |
Fluid: pagination is fairly simple and not usable in bigger projects | Tobias | Eike (<link http: www.hdnet.de typo3-agentur.html _blank>HDNET TYPO3 Agentur) | 120 Beers |
Sysfolder lacks field General Record Storage Page | Henrik | Rene Haflinger (<link http: www.agentur-frontal.ch _blank>Agentur Frontal) | 100 Beers |
In case of a wrong Database Connection specification (wrong host, wrong socket, credentials, database not existing, ...) the user should get meaningful exception messages. | Karsten | Martin Brüggemann (<link http: t3n.de news t3board11-bier-bug-auktionen-luftaufnahmen-typo3-geeks-304142 _blank>t3n Magazin) | 110 Beers |
Default login (without EXT:felogin) form should be deprecated | Susanne | Ekki (<link http: www.naw.info _blank>naw.info) | 135 Beers |
Check why the Root Node is always marked as modified, i.e. why there are two root nodes per workspace | Robert, Sebastian | Volker Graubaum (<link http: www.e-netconsulting.com _blank>e-netconsulting) | 110 Beers |
PHP Catchable Fatal Error thrown in a Sprite Generator hook | Steffen | Haymo Meran (<link http: www.gentics.com _blank>Gentics) | 80 Beers |
smartContentChange uses "keyIdentifier", not being supported by Firefox. | Haymo | Steffen Röpke (<link http: www.skyfillers.com _blank>Skyfillers) | 75 Beers |
Install tool should by default create database with utf8 charset | Stucki | Kian (<link http: www.aoemedia.de _blank>AOE Media) | 250 Beers |
Fix File Monitoring / Reflection Service. Files which have not changed are detected as "modified", probably related to Doctrine classes. | Robert | <link http: www.wildside.dk _blank>Wildside | 100 Beers |
Create scheduler task to empty recycler folders within fileadmin/ (Giamo T3 Scheduler – Add the name) | Kai Vogel | Guiamo Programming (<link http: www.linkedin.com in yomoguiamo _blank>Yomo Guiamo) | 125 Beers |
Fix functional testing, badly needed | Andi | <link http: www.berghotel-schmitten.at de _blank>Schmittenhöhe Schnaps-Hand-Bar | 75 Beers |
Essential form protection tokens are dropped when beeing logged in for a "long" time | Helmut | Marion (<link http: www.bluechip.at _blank>Bluechip.at) | 75 Beers |
Display current website mode (Browsing, Selection, Editing) as icon in "Content" tab | Sebastian, Jens | Adrian (<link http: snowflake.ch _blank>Snowflake) | 100 Beers |
Create scheduler task for removing old syslog entries (Schnapshans Scheduler Task) | Christian Kuhn | Jochen Weiland (<link http: jweiland.net _blank>jweiland.net) | 100 Beers |
Aloha Bug: Implement Placeholders if content is empty (Julle in the debugging) | Nils | Julle (<link http: mocsystems.com _blank>MOC Systems) | 60 Beers |
Replace shortcut misconfiguration with helpfull error message | Steffen | Volker Graubaum (<link http: www.e-netconsulting.com _blank>e-netconsulting) | 80 Beers |
$GLOBALS ['TYPO3_CONF_VARS'] ['BE'] ['unzip_path'] setting used with and without unzip command | Rasto | Tobias Liebig (<link http: www.networkteam.com _blank>networkteam GmbH) | 60 Beers |
UriBuilder should check if the Controller exists. If not, throw an exception. Furthermore, if no route matches, it should also throw an exception. (TODO: Include name of company in Unit Test) | Bastian | Adrian (<link http: snowflake.ch _blank>Snowflake) | 260 Beers |
Recursion error in typoscript when including typoscript files | Tobias | Kilian Hann (<link http: www.fconnection.com _blank>Future Connection AG Zürich) | 100 Beers |
SUM in Beers | last year: 1781 | 2175 Beers |
Conclusion and outlook
To anyone that did not have the opportunity to participate in a TYPO3 Snowboard Tour, I can only say: You missed something. This yearly week in the snow is a real highlight in our jam-packed event calendar. The mixture of fun, work, and good conversation with like-minded people is simply unbeatable.
Currently a vote is underway to determine where the 2012 TYPO3 Snowboard Tour will take place. In addition to Zell am See, the neighboring town of Kaprun is considered as well as the Swiss ski resort of Laax (venue for T3BOARD08, T3BOARD09 and T3BOARD10).