Later than usual we announce the TYPO3 Developer Days for this year. Fetch your calendars as they will be held from July 4th to July 7th in Hamburg. The concept for the TYPO3 Developer Days is going towards tutorials in combination with workshops and we are looking forward to “get things done”.

The final dates are set to go forward with some hard-core-coding for the next TYPO3 CMS Release: The upcoming code sprints for TYPO3 6.1.

At the beginning of 2013 the Expert Advisory Board decided about the budget and gave an explanation about the allocation of the budgets for 2013. The budget allocation for the Neos project was re-discussed after initially being rejected by the team. A solution was found by allocating budget to work-packages that will drive the development of TYPO3 Neos.

For the past week some 70 TYPO3 enthusiasts met in Zell am See in Austria for the TYPO3 Snowboard tour. On the 2000 meter high Schmittenhöhe there was plenty of snow accompanied by some exciting presentations. Jan Christe of T3N magazine gives some insights into the community event.

For almost a whole week the Neos core team met in Lübeck for planning the next steps toward the 1.0 release of Neos and implementing some features right away. With, at times, 17 people, this was an intensive sprint with some great results.

Kolkata (India), 20th February 2013: The TYPO3-Services Provider netzrezepte Technologies India is now supporting the TYPO3 Association as a Platinum Member. netzrezepte is the ninth company worldwide holding this highest level of Membership and the first one outside of Europe.

The first code sprint of the TYPO3 CMS project for this year took place last weekend in Duisburg and was hosted by the friendly folks of Rheinschafe GmbH. The Extbase Team met, discussed, worked on issues and got rid of lots of gremlins in that weekend. The timing of tis code sprint leaves enough time to initiate and finalise topics prior to the feature freeze of TYPO3 CMS 6.1 end of March 2013.

Christian Müller tagged the release of TYPO3 Neos 1.0 alpha 3 earlier today.

The TYPO3 Community announces versions 4.5.23, 4.6.16, 4.7.8 and 6.0.2 of the TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System.