We're happy to announce this years edition of the TYPO3 Developer Days. The fifth edition of this international TYPO3 community event, also known as T3DD, will take place from Thursday 1st to Sunday 4th July, 2010. The location for the event will once more be the Nordakademie Elmshorn, near Hamburg in Germany.

At the annual meeting of the TYPO3 Association Jürgen Egeling has taken over the chairmanship previously held by Kasper Skårhøj. Juergen Egeling is the CEO of a Karlsruhe-based TYPO3 Agency, that has supported the TYPO3 project for years now, including the organization of the annual TYPO3 conference T3CON. Jan Christe of <link www.t3n.de>t3n Magazine asked the new chairman of the TYPO3 Association a few questions about his plans and the biggest challenges facing the TYPO3 project.

Friday, March 26 marked the return of the Bug Days after several months of winter sleep. It was a very successful rebirth.

This last week the projects for GSoC 2010 were announced and TYPO3's application for Google Summer of Code was amongst the accepted projects. We are again participating and have already determined ways on how to improve the experience of working with the TYPO3 community. We already got quite a number of student applications, but are keen on also having you on board.

During this year's TYPO3 Snowboard Tour in Laax (Switzerland) the third episode of the bug auction was held in which people had the possibility to bid for their favourite bugs to be solved.

The Bug Days went dormant for a couple of months, but they're not dead! Join us on Friday, March 26th.

You might have heard of last years' TYPO3 coding week "TYPO3 User eXperience Week" where 30 TYPO3 enthusiasts met in a castle to bring TYPO3 closer to the user. This meant that these coders, designers and managers worked on all the things the user is confronted with in the TYPO3 4.x Backend. Thus, the main goal was to increase the user experience for the every-day user.

The TYPO3 community was amazed when the project was selected to participate in Google Summer of Code 2009 – TYPO3's first Summer of Code ever. TYPO3 is an enterprise class Content Management System with its origin in Denmark with a 10 year history of growing success, being especially popular in Europe and now also gaining ground in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. In 2009 the first U.S. TYPO3 conference was held in Dallas, TX.

We invite you to T3CON10-Dallas, the 2nd annual North American TYPO3 conference on May 20-22nd. This will be a great time to learn more about the powerful system we use everyday and to connect with other developers and TYPO3 users from both North America, Europe and around the world. Several internationally-known leaders of the TYPO3 community will be attending and presenting.