The upcoming release, TYPO3 CMS 6.1, will be a small increase by going further on the way that 6.0 paved for the future. The base tone for 6.1 is therefore simple called "Improve."

About a week ago we were briefed by the TYPO3 Association's EAB on the 2013 budget for the Neos and Flow project. The budget was reduced by 50% compared to the original application. Although this decision is a sharp break per se, the more difficult implications arise from the conditions and expectations which are bound to the allowed funds.

The developer days were planned to happen in April 2013, and yet we haven't announced a date for it. This caused several discussions as community…

In this article we are going to explain how the budgets have been assigned for 2013 and the reasons that made us decide like this.

TYPO3 Usergroup Romania Meetup 2012, was a great success with 50 developers participating from all over Romania on December 8-9. The meeting was held in Cluj-Napoca, which is the second most populous city in Romania.

Dear Members, I'd like to announce the next elections. At the 18th of January 2013 (evening) we will send out the voting tokens for EAB and BCC elections. Please check in your membership profile (at association.typo3.org), if your email address is up to date. Also check your spam filter for your voting tokens.

At the end of the year the focus on customer projects is usually high and community activity traditionally a little lower. Activity on Flow and Neos slowed down at the end of 2012, but a major new version of TYPO3 CMS was released at the end of November. There were quite some code sprints, a TYPO3camp and a few other TYPO3 related events. The budget discussions were quite prevalent these last two months and a number of positions in the TYPO3 Association came up for re-election.

The review day we had planned for beginning of December was undermined by server issues and not being able to log in to Forge and Gerrit - still, TYPO3 Neos 1.0 alpha 2 and Flow 2.0 beta 1 were released before Christmas. We hope you enjoyed the presents!

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.

As of 2013 you will be able to take TYPO3 certification exams all around the globe whenever you want to.