A special year comes to an end. The typo3.org Team can look back on a good year, as many projects and tasks were completed, even though there was only one in-person Team Sprint.

TYPO3 Association members were asked to rate submitted budget ideas for the “Innovation, Education and Events” pool in the annual budget poll. The Board of the TYPO3 Association decided to distribute the funds as widely as possible.

Meet Felicity Brand, TYPO3 Guidebook author on this special episode of Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast. We chat about her background in technical writing, how technical writing is a structured creative process, and her experience in joining the TYPO3 community. Felicity has spent more than the last year on a project for and with the TYPO3 community creating the TYPO3 Guidebook. In this podcast, we get to explore the book, how it came into being, and how this caused Felicity to “fall for the TYPO3 community.”

Let’s not beat around the bush: 2020 was—mildly speaking—a tough year. The reasons which made the current year so terrible are evident. However, we don’t want to linger on the negative but instead focus on the positive things that these rather exceptional circumstances created.

What was your New Year’s resolution for 2021? I propose one: Involve more people in TYPO3 contribution. Here are eight reasons why agencies should also encourage non-developers to join the fun.

Join me chatting with Luisa Faßbender on episode three of Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast. We find out about her path from student to intern to an agency position, to her current role of TYPO3 Community Marketing Lead, and how the pandemic of 2020 helped kick off her master's degree. We discuss helping clients, making good decisions and building trust, the cycle of inspiration, and Luisa's favorite thing about TYPO3. Hint, it's all about the structure for her. I hope you enjoy this episode at least as much as I enjoyed speaking with Luisa to put it together.

Meet Tomas Norre Mikkelsen, Developer at AOE in Germany, on episode two of Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast! We chat about his open-source life, maintaining the TYPO3 crawler extension and using TYPO3 every day since 2004! Tomas is also a very active contributor within the TYPO3 community and one of the maintainers of the TYPO3 Crawler. Tomas also has a passion for Continuous Delivery and DevOps, which can only be matched by his passion for golf!

Meet Rachel Foucard, TYPO3 Community Lead in France, on episode one of Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast. We talk about building relationships with clients and the agency sales cycle today, selling solutions rather than tools, and being part of the international TYPO3 community. Rachel is also the UX lead in the TYPO3 Structured Content Initiative, a member of the TYPO3 Association Board, and CTO of the W-Seils agency in Nantes.

Welcome to Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast! This is where we celebrate the TYPO3 community, sharing your stories, talking about your projects, and the difference you make in ... around ... and with TYPO3 CMS.