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.

Yesterday the marketing team had a real life meeting in Wiesbaden. The major goal was to plan the different days of the upcoming marketing sprint which will take place between the 18th and 24th of November 2013.

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.

The content management system TYPO3 has evolved in recent years from a one-man show to a global community project. Meanwhile, TYPO3 has virtually…

The marketing team meets 'live' 3 to 4 times a year besides the regular monthly meetings we have online.

The marketing team has stepped up activity in 2012 and has regular online meetings and 2 or 3 live meetings a year. The main achievement of this year was the relaunch of typo3.org on april 2nd of this year.

The marketing team has requested a large budget for the coming year, 2013. On Forge this budget request has been discussed and the marketing team would like to expand on the budget request itself as the original budget request was not to detailed.