Events
CMSday
The 3rd edition of CMSday was held on Tuesday, June 17 in Cap 15, located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. CMSday featured 32 sessions, 50 speakers and over 1000m ² of meeting places. The emphasis of CMSday is on open source CMS-es.
TYPO3 had a booth between all other open source CMS-es. The French community was represented at the booth by Rachel Foucard from <link http: www.w-seils.com>W-Seils and Maxime Fauquemberg from <link http: www.oblady.com>Oblady. Rachel also presented Neos in a <link http: www.pechakucha.org>Pecha-Kucha style presentation. Her presentation was among the nominated ones for the CMS Award for most innovative CMS. Rachel also participated in a round table discussion on multi-site implementations.
The TYPO3 Association was well represented at CMSday by means of Olivier Dobberkau (president of the T3A), Alain Veuve (treasurer) and yours truly community manager Ben van 't Ende.
Olivier very eloquently participated in the <link https: www.youtube.com>round table about Open Source Business Models. His performance did not go unnoticed and we heard many appreciative comments.
CMSday was important for the TYPO3 project in connecting to the French community. In cooperation with SMILE we hope to announce a TYPO3 meeting in Paris this year.
<link https: www.youtube.com>This small mobile movie on YouTube gives an impression of CMSday.
Developer Days
The TYPO3 developer days were held for the first time in the Netherlands this year in a location, techniekHuys, that was perfectly cut for doing such an event. The building featured split levels that made it perfect for having the hallway conversations and impromptu sessions. Besides the technical workshops that were really developer oriented the developer days also featured other workshops covering softer skills like self-massage for geeks, yoga sessions in the morning and the communication workshops by <link http: oss-watch.ac.uk>OSS Watch. It seems the introduction of these workshops sparked quite some enthusiasm and calls for something similar at coming events.Opening
The first day featured a certification workshop in the morning done by Patrick Lobacher initiated by the <link teams education>Education Committee.
T3buddies for life: Olivier Dobberkau & Carlos Miguelez T3DD14 truly kicked of at 14:00 with the usual 'official' announcements, house rules and guide lines for the event. New this year was the introduction of TYPO3 buddies. It is not always easy for people new to the community or to events to connect. In the opening session 10 community members that have been around for a long time (alte Hasen) were coupled to newcomers as TYPO3 buddies and encouraged to share pics and experiences with the hashtag #t3buddies. As a sign of appreciation and encouragement a towel with the motto 'member of the TYPO3 community' was handed over to the newbies by the 'old' folks. After the opening ceremony everyone spread out over the building ending the first day with an excellent dinner.
General impression
The fact that the rooms for the Neos workshops were not big enough and had to be swapped on some occasions was indicative or the huge interest in our new CMS. The Neos team released Neos 1.1 at a sprint at the Technical Universtity of Eindhoven. This release shows increasing maturity of the product and a consolidation of it's position in the community. The Developer Days show cased further development of TYPO3 CMS in a number of workshops next to the Neos workshops, exchange between the teams gives a solid foundation for the fact that the TYPO3 community is a tightly knit social family sporting different products. The developer days are essential to get face to face and talk about our projects that are untouched at code sprints, that are very focused. I jokingly said more then once that we should do this every month.
In some discussions we talked about the products and their position. The code base of TYPO3 CMS is not always as popular as Neos with new programmers. Neos is harder to sell internally then when TYPO3 CMS was being developed and a CMS was still uncharted territory. Focus on Neos adoption is important and at the same time more difficult, because TYPO3 CMS has proven itself in many environments already.
Even though Neos is not fully production ready in all cases, we need it's adoption to further development of Neos.
Traditionally the Friday featured the coding night and this time we had a special social event on Saturday, preceded by a big BBQ, that featured the soccer match Ghana – Germany. Luckily Germany won, which kept the spirit of T3DD14 running high.
Closing
The closing Sunday is always a shorter day and was closed by a variant of the appreciation towel event T3DD14 started with. This time Gina Steiner, member of the Community Working Group, invited members of the community to give a towel to people they appreciate. After some initial hesitations the crowd really got going and some really heart warming appreciation speeches were held before the 'member of the TYPO3 community' were handed over.
Organisers: Patrick Broens, Andrea Herzog Kienast and Edward Lenssen
Announcing coming official events
To finally close of this edition of the Developer Days 2014 Volker Graubaum reminded us of the <link http: t3con.eu>coming TYPO3 conference in Berlin from October 8 – 10 and Oliver Hader, Thomas Maroschick and Andy Foerthner announced next year's Developer Days (T3DD15), which will be held from June 11 – 14 in Nuremberg, Germany. Save the dates in your agenda! More on T3DD14- <link http: www.sgalinski.de news typo3-developer-days-2014.html>www.arxia.com/blog/2014/06/arxia-at-t3dd14-in-eindhoven/
- <link http: www.sgalinski.de news typo3-developer-days-2014.html>www.sgalinski.de/news/typo3-developer-days-2014.html (German only)
- <link https: www.flickr.com photos typo3>www.flickr.com/photos/typo3/ (Official TYPO3 Flickr account)
Neos 1.1
Code sprint
The Neos team met for another code sprint at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) in the Netherlands leading up to the Developer Days. The three days were spent focussing on finishing the 1.1 release, improving project management, discussing organisational matters, communication and working on upcoming features. The code sprint was attended by 13 people including three first timers, including Visay Keo from Web Essentials and Dominik Stankowski, member of the EAB, joining from Cambodia.
Topics discussed:
Organisational matters – release management, review process, communication, website
Upcoming features – constraints, place holders, localization,
Upcoming code sprints
Release Neos 1.1
Right before the official opening of the Developer Days the team <link http: neos.typo3.org news typo3-neos-1-1-released.html>released Neos 1.1. The focus of this release is on performance and stability.
One of the most important new features of this release is a flexible and speedy content caching solution. This release also prepares for the upcoming multi-lingual support which is part of the content dimensions concept. Content dimensions is a foundation for dealing with content from different perspectives like for instance from localisation, personalisation or device perspective. Content dimensions is considered experimental for now and will not be enabled until there is full localisation support in the interface.
Head over to the Neos website for the <link http: docs.typo3.org neos typo3neosdocumentation appendixes changelogs>release notes over at docs.typo3.org for the full details. The release can be fetched through composer as usual or <link http: neos.typo3.org download.html>downloaded at the Neos website.
Flow
Along with the release of Neos 1.1 the team also released version 2.2.0 of the TYPO3 Flow framework - a natural consequence of Flow being the base for Neos. The new release comes with a number of bug fixes, numerous new features and noticeable speed improvements. Head over to the Flow website for the <link http: flow.typo3.org download release-notes flow-2-2>release notes and check the <link http: docs.typo3.org flow typo3flowdocumentation thedefinitiveguide partv changelogs>change logs over at docs.typo3.org for the full details. The release can be fetched through composer as usual or <link http: flow.typo3.org download>downloaded at the Flow website.TYPO3camps
TYPO3camp Bremen (August 8 – 10)
Ticket sale for <link http: typo3camp-bremen.mixxt.de>TYPO3camp Bremen is open. The camp in Bremen is a kind of replacement for TYPO3camp Hamburg, which is not being organised this year.