FLOW3, the TYPO3 community’s upcoming PHP framework, will take part in the Plat_Forms 2011 programming competition, taking place January 18th to 19th, 2011 in Nuremberg, Germany. It will compete against Ruby on Rails, Java and Perl, among others.
typo3.org has seen several incarnations and some serious attempts for a relaunch. The last relaunch was stopped due to the fact that more than an optical brush-up was needed. This article gives you some insight in the history of typo3.org.