September started with the TYPO3camp Munich followed by the Active Contributor Meeting of the TYPO3 CMS team. In the second half of September there was the user experience week in the Harz. The 10th TYPO3 conference took place in Berlin from October 8 - 10. This month ended with the Dutch TYPO3 congress on Tuesday October 28 and I am writing all this from TYPO3 Eastern Europe an international TYPO3 event in the heart of Transylvania. Great to be here for halloween.

The budget applications for 2015 are online. Feedback required from you!

The community working group had a hangout with Ashe Dryden to get some input on how to increase diversity, be inclusive and at the same time spread TYPO3.

The TYPO3 Association wants to improve our way of doing community management. For that we invite everyone, from inside and outside our TYPO3 community to send in ideas, concepts and out-of-the-box solutions of how community management should be for the next 5 years. Consider this an alternative job application, since the best idea will be selected to do the job.

Between 27th of september and 5th of october nearly 30 people met in Denmark at an amazing castle to work on TYPO3 Neos. Participants from the United States, Cambodia, Russia and all over Europe worked on several parts of the content management system with the major goals to improve the user experience, add additional features and fix bugs.

OpenExpo will open its new season with an event on Open Source Content Management Systems that will be held on October 15 in Madrid.

A small house in the middle of the forest. The weather is rainy, fog all around. 30 people in the middle of nowhere with no place to run - no one would hear you scream. What sounds like the plot of a horror movie, turned out to be one of the most productive open source meetups in history of TYPO3.

The last of the TYPO3 Agency Meetups stops for 2014 will be in Mannheim.

The user experience week 2014 is about usability of the backend, themes and distributions. Some 30 participants work for one week in a remote location in the heart of Germany on these topics.

TYPO3 will be present at the Internet Festival in Pisa, between October 9 and October 12.