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.

Behind the scences, modifications always take place. From now on Felix Oertel will share the teamlead with Anja Leichsenring. The Extbase team welcomes Anja to that position and looks forward to her support with her expertise and ideas.

The General Assembly approved the online election for the EAB and BCC. The Board welcomes Ric van Westhreenen as new Vice President of the TYPO3 Association.

Neos Robert started the year working on improving TYPO3CR and using its nodes for storing blog posts and comments in a plugin embedded for Neos.…