At the end of the year the focus on customer projects is usually high and community activity traditionally a little lower. Activity on Flow and Neos slowed down at the end of 2012, but a major new version of TYPO3 CMS was released at the end of November. There were quite some code sprints, a TYPO3camp and a few other TYPO3 related events. The budget discussions were quite prevalent these last two months and a number of positions in the TYPO3 Association came up for re-election.

As 2012 is coming to its end we would like to send you our best wishes for you and your families!

The event team has created a small online survey to get your feedback for next year's conference.

CMS-GARDEN will be the place where the most relevant Open Source Content Management Systems will present themselves side by side.

The documentation team made some very good progress this year and in particular the past code sprint from December 6-9 in Wiesbaden. Martin Bless gives an overview what has been going on in the documentation team.

We are proud to present two afternoons of TYPO3 Flow and TYPO3 Neos Workshops within the T3BOARD13 at Schmittenhöhe (Zell am See, Austria) with Robert Lemke!

From December 6-9 the fourth codesprint for typo3.org was held in Wiesbaden at the AOEmedia offices. It's main target was streamlining the work done in previous sprints. The sprint started with 190+ issues in Forge and ended up with 50+ issues. Some 140 issues were resolved.

The goal of this article is to give the community a short overview of the current state of the official documentation with regards to the release of TYPO3 CMS 6.0.

Today the next code sprint in a continuing series of sprints starts. This four day sprint will occupy the dev's from today until Sunday

The first German “TYPO3 days for universities” took place on November 21-22 at the Leibniz Universität IT Services, formally known as RRZN, the computer center of Leibniz Universität Hannover.