TYPO3Camp Rhein-Ruhr 2013

Categories: Community Created by Cynthia Mattingly
A weekend in the Unperfekthaus in Essen with a whole bunch of happy geeks: the second TYPO3Camp Rhein-Ruhr was attended by over 125 people, from developers to project managers to backend users. Slot-car racing at Gapp's Event-Location provided great food and a lot of excitement with the official tournament as a warm-up event Friday evening.
We got rolling Saturday with introductions and then jumped into the session planning.  This year we had four proper rooms for sessions, as well as a room full of couches for discussion groups and a corner by the coffee machine with tables for collaboration while plugged-in. We filled them up pretty well with 25 sessions in 7 session blocks on Saturday and 17 sessions in 5 session blocks on Sunday - it was always a hard choice to decide which session to attend.

Many sessions presented an extension or development in the TYPO3 world, among others we got a view of the current status of NEOS and Andy Grunwald's metrics which give us a fascinating analyse of the TYPO3 code base and its contributors. Other sessions solicited input for the best way to go forward, for example how themes can be integrated in future, discussions of improved backend usability, and the general theme of improved communication and community involvement. Yet other sessions were not directly linked to TYPO3, such as sessions about Jira, Kanban, and Scrum for the project managers, or logfile management, Gitflow, and Varnish for the system administrators.

Overall the weekend had a great can-do atmosphere, drawing participants from as far away as Bremen, Hannover and Ravensburg as well as a few Dutch visitors! Thanks to all the sponsors and attendees who made this event possible. See you next year, we hope!