Week ending February 8
T3CON15 Asia (Phnom Penh, August 20-21)
After the success of the first ever TYPO3 conference in Asia (T3CON12 ASIA), the TYPO3 conference will be returning to Asia in 2015! T3CON12 ASIA provided an exotic backdrop for TYPO3 enthusiasts from Australia, Cambodia, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, USA, and Vietnam-- wow! Participants enjoyed the quality of the talks, the intimacy of the TYPO3 community, and the uniqueness of experiencing Cambodia through TYPO3. The conference was inaugurated by the creator of TYPO3, Kasper Skårhøj.TYPO3 CMS now available for Microsoft Azure
The cloud simplifies the fast and easy building of TYPO3 websites and flexibly absorbs peak loads during operation The open source content management system TYPO3 CMS is available for <link http: azure.microsoft.com>Microsoft Azure effective immediately. Azure customers access TYPO3 CMS on the <link http: azure.microsoft.com en-gb marketplace partners bitnami>Azure Web App Gallery for building, managing or quickly adapting complex websites to changing system requirements through autoscaling in next to now time.
dkd Internet Service GmbH takes TYPO3 CMS to the cloud
<link http: www.dkd.de>dkd Internet Service GmbH, a digital agency based in Frankfurt am Main and member of the TYPO3 community, has assumed patronage for the integration of TYPO3 into Microsoft Azure. Olivier Dobberkau, the agency’s managing director, says: “We have deployed TYPO3 to Microsoft Azure to endorse the broad use of CMS and look at the bigger picture. In doing so, we always act in the interest of the community.” There has previously been support for TYPO3 for Windows operating systems to ensure customers work flexibly with TYPO3. “The openness of Microsoft Azure enables us to substantially expand the potential of the solution and continue to develop TYPO3 into a cloud service.”TYPO3 CMS 7.x on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
There is no doubt that cloud technologies are on the rise. In 2014, we have seen hundreds of companies and organisations – big and small – moving their IT infrastructure and software into a cloud environment. Last year was the year of cloud solutions and this trend will continue in 2015.
Internal TYPO3 project communication through Slack
The CMS team has built <link http: forger.typo3.org slack>a form page in Forger to easily request access to Slack, the TYPO3 project's internal communication platform. The access is for everyone that participates and contributes to the TYPO3 project.
Fluid and Extbase cheatsheets
Besides the 'What's New Slides' for TYPO3 CMS, Patrick Lobacher of <link http: www.pluswerk.ag>+Pluswerk has also updated the Fluid and Extbase cheatsheet. lobacher.de provides the <link http: www.lobacher.de files cs extbasefluidcheatsheet_3.02_pluswerk.pdf>latest Fluid and Extbase cheatsheet (3.0.2).
Win a ticket for the Inspiring Conference 2015
The organisation of the <link http: www.inspiring-conference.com>Inspiring Conference allows 'This Week in TYPO3' to give away two tickets for the upcoming Inspiring Conference (March 27-28)! Inspiring Conference is the leading and international TYPO3 Flow and TYPO3 Neos event if the year! Beside inspiring talks and interesting workshops there are a lot of surprises waiting for you.
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Neos documentation improvements
Thomas Hempels initiated a meeting on Neos documentation improvements. Lowering the barriers for participation in documentation is important and vital to the team to allow participation outside of coding. More info can be found <link http: forum.typo3.org index.php t>in a thread on the TYPO3 Neos forum, which also contains a link to a Google Doc, where you can add comments. This might be an excellent opportunity to participate in the Neos project without you being a coder.Free Neos workshop (Cologne, Febr 24)
Patrick Lobacher will do a free workshop on Neos in Cologne. The workshop will be in German.TYPO3camp Venlo (April 17-18)

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- <link http: typo3.org news article typo3camp-venlo>typo3.org/news/article/typo3camp-venlo/
Extension documentation and Sphinx
Xavier Perseguers has written the <link http: typo3.org extensions repository view sphinx>Sphinx Python Documentation Generator and Viewer extension (available on TER). The whole documentation process has gone through a lot of changes over time from docbook to open document to, currently, reST (reStructuredText). Xavier lets us know that not many extension authors are aware yet of the new official format for extension manuals. In order to get a best-looking extension manual rendered on the central documentation platform docs.typo3.org, extension authors should stop using OpenOffice (manual.sxw) and switch to Sphinx. Manuals should now use Sphinx (which is a “glue” for aggregating separate reStructuredText - that is, pure text - files into a single unified manual). The easiest way to start with Sphinx and to convert your existing OpenOffice manual into a Sphinx project is to install the extension “<link http: typo3.org extensions repository view sphinx>sphinx” available in TER and to learn basics of Sphinx and reStructuredText with the <link http: docs.typo3.org typo3cms extensions sphinx writersmanual sphinxrest index.htm>documentation you can find on docs.typo3.org. As a bonus, Sphinx will let you automatically get a professional-looking PDF rendered when you upload your extension to TER. A few extension authors even started to provide their extension manual in other language, in addition to English. And remember: the terrific code and software you are writing deserves proper documentation that is usable by others. By writing good documentation, you too, in turn, inspire people to share!Google Summer of Code 2015
Google has announced Google Summer of Code 2015. Of course the TYPO3 project is applying again this year, possibly making it the sixth time we participate.