FOSS Backstage is dedicated to everything related to FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) governance and open collaboration. As the conference website explains, the topics include “open source project leadership best practices, community management, open source project metrics, open source strategy for enterprise, adopting open source collaboration in corporations, legal matters when dealing with open source and many more.”

TYPO3, as a free and open source CMS, is keenly interested in these topics. For us, this is an opportunity to meet and network with old and new friends from the FOSS community, learn from others, and share experiences from our own activities.

Mathias Bolt Lesniak, TYPO3 project ambassador, will be present at the event and speak about How to Explain the Impact of Your Open Source Work with Jeffrey A. “jam” McGuire.

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.

TYPO3 is a PHP-based open-source CMS, just like Drupal. The structure and backend experience differs, but, under the hood, our two communities solve web publishing and content management with similar tools and third-party dependencies. DrupalCon is a place to meet, exchange ideas, and discuss solutions to the challenges faced by open source software today.

DrupalCon Atlanta bills itself “the biggest open-source event in North America.” The conference features many tracks and numerous sessions over four days.

The Drupal Association is the event organizer, and the event will be an opportunity to strengthen the collaboration in the Open Website Alliance, where the TYPO3 Association is also a member.

Mathias Bolt Lesniak, TYPO3's project ambassador, will be present during the three final days of the conference.

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.