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.

As 2012 is coming to its end we would like to send you our best wishes for you and your families!

The event team has created a small online survey to get your feedback for next year's conference.

Shortly after the release of TYPO3 Flow 2.0 beta 1 we have the pleasure to present the second alpha of Neos.

CMS-GARDEN will be the place where the most relevant Open Source Content Management Systems will present themselves side by side.

The priority poll for the budget applications for budgets for 2013 is online now. Members of the TYPO3 Association are asked to give their opinion on the budget applications for 2013.