European Open Source Awards is a new initiative that honors “outstanding achievements to the Open Source community throughout Europe.” The event organizer is the European Open Source Academy, a “part of a new EU-funded initiative celebrating European excellence in open source software and hardware” that has been founded “to shed light on the critical value of open source for Europe’s competitiveness and open strategic autonomy.”

TYPO3 has been invited to be present at the event, as the TYPO3 Association is a bronze sponsor of the next day’s EU Open Source Policy Summit. At the event, you can meet TYPO3 Project Ambassador Mathias Bolt Lesniak.

The EU Open Source Policy Summit calls itself “the world’s largest assembly of policymakers, Open Source businesses, community members, developers, foundations, and experts engaged in diverse digital policy matters”. Even though it takes place in, Brussels, Belgium — in many ways the center of European politics — the conference attracts international representation and is marketed as “the only global conference of its kind”.

OpenForum Europe (OFE) is the event organizer. Founded in 2002, OFE is a Brussels-based not-for-profit, independent think tank, the organization works to “explain the merits of openness in computing to policy makers and communities across Europe”. It works with the European Commission, the European Parliament, and national and local governments.

TYPO3 is joining this event as a bronze sponsor. Open source policy is increasingly important for our free and open-source (FOSS) CMS. TYPO3 Project Ambassador Mathias Bolt Lesniak will be present at the event.

Event participation is free and can be attended online. You can choose to request a spot at the onsite event during registration.

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels, Belgium.

TYPO3 Project Ambassador Mathias Bolt Lesniak and framework merger in the TYPO3 Core Team Oliver Bartsch will attend both days.

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The E-Commerce Kohlfahrt is a German-language event described as a traditional German cabbage tour with a modern twist. It will not only be about eating kale and sausages, but also about networking around e-commerce. The organizers expect “all kinds of people from the e-commerce industry, manufacturers, managers, customers and consultants. A wild mix.”

TYPO3 Business Control Committee member Ingo Schmitt will be present at this event, ready for both e-commerce, TYPO3, and winter vegetables.

CloudFest Hackathon is three days of coding, collaboration, and creativity. The organizers call it “a blend of learning, networking, and impact.” The event takes place in the days preceeding Cloudfest, a major international internet infrastructure event.

TYPO3 Core Team members will join other TYPO3 contributors at this event. Together with developers from other CMSs, they will work on collaborative projects and share knowledge.

CMS Summit 25 calls itself “a vendor-neutral conference focused on CMS.” It is a European version of the North-American conference where TYPO3 has also previously been present. The event is one of multiple annual digital leadership conferences organized by Danish internet entrepreneur Janus Boye and Boye & co. Their focus is on the value of openness, friendliness and honesty in a profession where so much is based on the intangibles of know-how and experience. 

TYPO3 is a member of Boye & co’s CMS Experts group. This is a forum where CMS analysts, thinkers, practitioners, experts, and vendors meet to discuss and share thoughts and ideas. This is a place to meet practitioners and hear case studies with an under-the-hood look at how they think content management.

TYPO3 Core Team lead Benni Mack will take part in the summit.

The e-Governance Conference brings together strategists, decision makers, policy implementers, and donors. This year’s conference title is From Bytes to Benefits, Raising prosperity through digital transformation.

For TYPO3, the events in 2022 and 2023 were a great success. This year, we will continue to promote our CMS and create interest and engagement around our four-pillar model for using a democratic and not-for-profit open-source project to foster sustainable and independent business as outlined in the TYPO3 Association’s report on Open Source Standardization of Government Websites in Rwanda.

TYPO3 will be present for the third time with our own booth.  Daniel Homorodean, leader of the TYPO3 Community Expansion Committee, as well as Mathias Bolt Lesniak, the TYPO3 project ambassador, will participate in the event.

Visit us to learn more about the latest innovations in the world of open source CMS and meet some of our Official Partners who will be joining us at the conference.

Smart Country Convention is a three-day congress and expo with workshops and networking in Berlin, Germany. Calling itself “the leading event for the digital state and public services,” it is the largest of its kind in the country.

For the TYPO3 project, the event’s focus on the public sector, and the closely related topics of digitalization and digital sovereignty, makes it a great platform to promote some of TYPO3 CMS's core features and use cases. For the german government specifically, 2024’s launch of the TYPO3-based Government Site Builder (GSB) has the potential to take the country towards a new level of digital autonomy.

On the expo floor, TYPO3 will be present with a booth, manned with representatives from the TYPO3 Company and their partners.