The roadshow of the TYPO3 Agency Meetups continues and expands over the German border.

On Octrober 1st 2014, the TYPO3 Marketing Team will meet the TYPO3 Agencies of the Netherlands and Belgium area for another interesting day together.

The TYPO3 Association will be present with a booth at the Travel Expo in Cologne from September 23 - 24. Travel Expo is the most important tourism trade fair in Germany.

The TYPO3 Marketing Team is glad to announce that the date for the Agency Meetup Day in Düsseldorf has been set. Join us on September 2nd at the <link&hellip;

The TYPO3 Marketing Team will visit Bayern on August 20th.

With the first half of 2014 coming to an end, I looked back to the progress of the marketing team during the past six months. What I saw was not promising: There have been meetings, discussions, plans and work, but almost no results. Results in the sense of achievements in the market. While every member of the marketing team did what they could, I felt there was far too little output compared to the amount of hours invested. I decided for myself that continuing like this is not an option, neither is stepping down.

Last week the marketing team met for the first time in 2014 for a live meeting. Besides our monthly virtual meetings, the marketing team also meets some four times a year to connect in the real world.

Like in 2013 TYPO3 will engage itself in CMS Garden for the coming year. As a matter of fact CMS Garden has it’s roots in the TYPO3 community as an idea that came up to support Open Source at CeBIT with the decreasing Open Source sponsoring from CeBIT itself.

As you may know there have been several changes to the marketing team in the past few months. Kian Gould, who was marketing leader for several years, resigned and Peter Pröll, Eike Diestelkamp, Frederic Gaus left as well. That means we are now a group of 5 members : Berit Hlubek (Co-Lead), Boris Hinzer, Christian Händel, Ben van ’t Ende and Alain Veuve (Leader).

The TYPO3 Marketing sprint started last Monday with a two day communication workshop, attended by around 16 people. The workshop was organised to gain a better understanding of communication in an Open Source community and to find ways of improving that communication.