This week saw postponement of the Alpha 3 of TYPO3 CMS, GSoC pencils down, TYPO3 distributions, Neos news, TYPO3 girls and CMS garden goodness. As a bonus a small interview with DE-CIX’s Alexander Summa.

For more than 10 years people keep telling me how wonderful and unique the TYPO3 community is, how enthusiastic. Do you know why? I do.

On the TYPO3 Neos team, we often get the question – when will Neos be capable of doing the same as TYPO3 CMS? In other words: Will Neos be competitive from day one? This article aims to answer the question but it also targets another, potentially far more important question to the TYPO3 community surrounding the Neos project.

‘This Week in TYPO3’ was born out of the suggestions by community members for shorter and more timely updates. The monthly overviews were usually too much after the fact and it’s length not appealing to read. Of course we also live in times where we do not focus that long. I also sincerely hope that these timely updates will see contributions by the community and feedback by the community. Participation in getting this weekly update done is encouraged.

In September two technical discussion meetings took place to talk about possible solutions for different Neos development related topics.

A community report about the recent process of talking to expert advisors about the TYPO3 Neos User Experience plan and how that has improved the backend design.

The release of TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS will be postponed by one and a half month. Read more about it in this article.

On August 22nd the TYPO3 Neos Coordination Group had another meeting to talk about general organizational topics regarding TYPO3 Neos and TYPO3 Flow.

Today we had another technical discussion meeting for TYPO3 Flow and Neos. Two topics were discussed: the TypoScript folder as well as the usage of event sourcing in workspaces.

TYPO3 community members will get free admission to the event. Please register before Aug, 29th.