The two major events in June where the North American Conference in San Fransisco and T3UNI Annecy France. Both events are of great significance for making TYPO3 more well known internationally
T3CON11, San Fransisco, United States
The North American conference was held from June 9-11. San Fransisco is an awesome place to be and especially the European visitors enjoyed it to the max. The quality of the presentations was very high, as is expected with any T3CON. Jez Humble was a keynote speaker. His work with Continuous Delivery is changing the way companies approach software deployment. The US TYPO3 community is in its infancy, so it is a challenge to balance experienced developer with introductory material and Jez’s keynote really did that well. The majority of the sessions were geared towards seasoned TYPO3 developers and integrators, and there was also an introductory track dedicated to decision-makers and people interested in getting started with TYPO3. At the end of the conference Patrick Gaumond announced that the next North American conference will be in Quebec, Canada. Quebec has a fairly large TYPO3 community.
<link http: t3con11-sf.typo3.org _blank>t3con11-sf.typo3.org
<link http: news.typo3.org news article san-francisco-days-t3con11sf>news.typo3.org/news/article/san-francisco-days-t3con11sf/
T3UNI, Annecy, France
The French conference was held from June 29- July 1. Annecy is a very special location not far from Switzerland and has a rich cultural heritage. This year a new organisational team, led by Cyril Wolfangel, made some changes for the future of the french TYPO3 event. A team of 2 did the quality control for the event and all money left from the events budget was directly donated back to the TYPO3 Association. The presentations this year were received very well and according to the online vote, the presentations most appreciated were on the subject of Templavoilà Framework and SOLR search. As always the boat trip on Lake Annecy with the Libellule was one of the highlights of the conference.
<link http: t3uni.typo3-fr.org english.html _blank>t3uni.typo3-fr.org/english.html
<link http: news.typo3.org news article t3uni-is-over>news.typo3.org/news/article/t3uni-is-over/
T3CAMP, Berlin, Germany
The first TYPO3camp Berlin was a great success. 160 participants, 39 sessions and a fantastic table football tournament (T3Kicker) were the highlights on the weekend from the 24th to 26nd of June in Berlin. The weekend started with the warm-up meeting on friday evening with lots the participants, nice small talks and beer at the Salz Club.
<link http: news.typo3.org news article typo3camp-berlin>news.typo3.org/news/article/typo3camp-berlin/
typo3.org relaunch
The management team took some steps in the month of June to start phase two of the relaunch project. A relaunch weekend in Wiesbaden is planned for September of this year. The team hopes to achieve significant progress then towards the final relaunch.
<link http: forge.typo3.org projects team-t3o-relaunch-week _blank>forge.typo3.org/projects/team-t3o-relaunch-week
<link http: news.typo3.org news article the-typo3org-relaunch-sprint-weekend>news.typo3.org/news/article/the-typo3org-relaunch-sprint-weekend/
File Abstraction Layer – DAM
There has been quite some activity concerning groundwork for the File Abstraction Layer and DAM. FAL will be developed as part of the BLE project. More information on that will follow next week in a separate article. Along with FAL an new version of DAM will also be developed. Many people are looking forward to this final step for a fully distributable TYPO3.
TYPO3 version 4.6 – Release Team
On June 15th TYPO3 version 4.6 Alpha2 was released. Everything is right on schedule for our rebase release in October 2011. XLIFF language files and usage of the Pootle translation server is the main feature of this release. XLIFF language files (.xlf) are now supported but current locallang.xml files have not yet been converted because we first want to have a stable translation server based on Pootle. Furthermore, translations should be retrieved by Extension Manager as usual and we have to make sure the whole workflow is working smoothly. Many projects are targeted at TYPO3 4.6 and will be included in Core with the next pre-releases until the feature-freeze deadline which will occur on 2th August 2011.
<link http: forge.typo3.org projects typo3v46-projects wiki typo3_460alpha2 _blank>forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v46-projects/wiki/TYPO3_460alpha2
<link http: forge.typo3.org projects typo3v46-projects _blank>forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v46-projects/wiki