This month is an extended episode where we sit down and talk with speakers and attendees from the TYPO3 Developer Days conference. Interviews feature Thomas Voldanski and Łukasz Uznański from Macopedia, Abramo Tesoro on the Bootstrap Italia project, and Matthias Bolt Lesniak from the TYPO3 Association Board sharing insights on community engagement and T3CON in October.

This is a half-year report of the Best Practices Team. Read on to find out about our efforts so far, and think about how you can get involved.

The Motivation Research Team now is an official team, has a new name, and is growing.

The version 12.4.5 of the TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System has just been released.

Transform Africa Summit (TAS) is the continent's flagship conference on strategic digital transformation. The event took place in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, in April 2023. TYPO3 was also there, along with heads of state, government ministers, directors of national agencies and many more relevant stakeholders.

The TYPO3 Project is thrilled to announce IONOS as the Patron Sponsor for the upcoming TYPO3 Conference on 12–13 October 2023 at Areal Böhler, Düsseldorf. IONOS is one of the leading web hosting and cloud service providers in Europe and their support and commitment will help ensure the success of the 15th edition of this event. As the main sponsor, IONOS will play a vital role in making this conference unforgettable.

GitLab 15.7 and newer ships with a built-in TYPO3 template for gitlab.com and self-hosted instances. The template is aimed at professionals and includes a deployment workflow using Composer and GitLab CI.

The TYPO3 Community Sprint provides a great opportunity for connecting with other teams from the community and beyond. This can be attributed, in large part, to the TYPO3 GmbH team and their CEO, Daniel Fau, who not only supported a smooth process (lodging, catering, barista coffee, and more), but also actively created opportunities for cooperation.

The 9th e-Governance Conference, held in Tallinn, Estonia, on 30–31 May, 2023 was a landmark event for global digital governance. TYPO3 had a prominent place as a leading content management system (CMS) in the context of digital sovereignty. We emphasized TYPO3’s ability to empower governments and organizations to maintain control over their digital infrastructures.

About the Open Letter to the European Union and FOSS CMS Collaboration. This is the first combined Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, and Wordpress community meeting.