Publicly announcing the TYPO3 Extbase Codesprint in Duisburg / Germany from February 8 - 10. Are you spontaneous and can you be inspired by the power of Community? Don't hesitate and dive into the deepest seas in TYPO3-Universe.

The upcoming release, TYPO3 CMS 6.1, will be a small increase by going further on the way that 6.0 paved for the future. The base tone for 6.1 is therefore simple called "Improve."

About a week ago we were briefed by the TYPO3 Association's EAB on the 2013 budget for the Neos and Flow project. The budget was reduced by 50% compared to the original application. Although this decision is a sharp break per se, the more difficult implications arise from the conditions and expectations which are bound to the allowed funds.

The developer days were planned to happen in April 2013, and yet we haven't announced a date for it. This caused several discussions as community…

TYPO3 Usergroup Romania Meetup 2012, was a great success with 50 developers participating from all over Romania on December 8-9. The meeting was held in Cluj-Napoca, which is the second most populous city in Romania.

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.