Additionally, we invited an external guest to gain additional insights and inspiration for the future of the Association.
Daily business
As part of the regular meeting, we have worked on a list of daily business topics:- staff changes and upcoming elections (more details will follow in a separate announcement)
- start of the 2013 budget process and budget periods (<link http: typo3.org news article submit-your-2014-budget-application-now>more information)
- improvements of the Association tools and infrastructure
- member concerns and insights
Looking into the future
The additional focus of this meeting was to discuss on how we can improve the TYPO3 Association to support the TYPO3 community as good as possible. To achieve this, we invited <link http: webmink.com>Simon Phipps (president of the<link http: opensource.org> Open Source Initiative) for consulting us. Simon Phipps has a broad know-how of open source affairs. His vast background and very extended experience with various open source projects he accompanied or lead, indicated for us that he is the right person to involve at this point.Insights
During the workshop, we were able to identify four main ideas which should guide us in our work:- Enable development but never directly pay code
- Consult but don’t interfere
- Protect but don’t restrict
- Promote what we have but don’t raise false expectations
Next Steps
It is good to know that we are already going in the right direction. More changes are planned for the next weeks:- publish a survey to reach out for our members
- improve communication and encourage members to join the discussion
- continue to implement what we learned from the insights