One of the goals of the TYPO3 Association is to safeguard our brand, TYPO3. We run an active program to advise community members about the usage of our brand, and take action when we see misuse of the trademark.

The aim of the TYPO3 International Mentorship Program is to expand the reach of TYPO3 CMS, to grow the community and market. The coordinating committee conducted a successful pilot program in 2020, supporting young web developers from five countries to make their first steps into the TYPO3 world.

This year, a special interest group was formed to update screenshots in the official TYPO3 documentation. Updating screenshots manually is tedious and boring. This article explains the really cool automatic solution we have devised, and we’re looking for people to help us make it even better.

Today we speak with Sybille Peters, a Germany-based developer who’s responsible for the web presence at the University of Oldenburg. She is also very active on the TYPO3 Community Documentation Team. We talk about the joys of open source community, contribution, and collaboration in the TYPO3 community, her favorite features TYPO3 has to offer, and improvements for developers in the future. Please note, there are small sound quality issues in this episode that we apologize for.

In 2020—we, as the Marketing Team—decided and announced that we wanted to focus on creating a variety of fact and figure-based materials, which should help agencies sell TYPO3 better. Our biggest project was to create the Comparison Cards, comparing TYPO3 to the most popular alternatives on the market.

The TYPO3 Documentation Team is continuously working on improving the TYPO3 documentation—keeping it up to date, finding new and better ways to document and—equally important—removing outdated information.

By night, Andri Steiner is the TYPO3 Server Team Lead, where he focuses on hosting and configuring servers, and keeping the community’s digital infrastructure up-(to-date) and running. By day, he’s a CTO and Partner at Ops One, living and working in Zürich, Switzerland, where, he says, “We do our own web applications, like backends for mobile apps, or usual websites or whatever our customers want us for.”

Be part of an important moment in the democratic life of the TYPO3 project. The next TYPO3 General Assembly will be held on 13 April, 2021. Due to the Corona situation, this year again the General Assembly will be a full online event.

Open source CMS communities like TYPO3 are working with the eco Association to improve security for commercial and private websites.

Mathias Schreiber’s journey to become the CEO of the TYPO3 GmbH was not especially purposeful, but that’s part of what makes it so fascinating. He talks about how he first became aware of TYPO3, participating in the open source community, his abrupt transition to CEO, and the values that guide the TYPO3 GmbH today.