EVENT Committee
TYPO3 Developer Days
The TYPO3
Developer Days will take place from Friday 11th till Sunday 13th of
August 2006 in the vicinity of Zurich, Switzerland. Many core
developers will attend the meeting, planning to kick off the software
design process for version 5.0, also expecting to find new
contributors. Details will be announced shortly on typo3.org.
T3CON (formerly known as TYCON3)
The second
worldwide TYPO3 conference will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany from
Thursday 5th till Sunday 8th of October 2006. Currently, speakers are
welcome to suggest their topic in reaction to the committee’s call
for papers. Find out more at http://t3con06.typo3.org/
T3BOARD07
The planning
for the snowboard tour 2007 is underway: the team is searching for a
suitable location to accommodate the growing crowd the snowboard tour
is drawing. Any help would be most welcome – please subsribe to the
event Team mailing list to join (see below).
Questions
regarding the aforementioned events should be posted to the event
committee’s mailing list at t3a-events@lists. association.typo3.org.
R&D Committee – Release 4.5 and
Roadmap 5.0
The R&D
Committee has announced the becoming of a new Human Computer
Interface Team (HCI) headed by Kasper Skårhøj. This team
will collect and compile input from scientific research and
developers‘ ideas for creating the user experience version 4.5 is
planned to provide.
For version 5.0 to become reality,
Robert Lemke and Daniel Hinderink have been elaborating on the
Association’s plans at this year’s LinuxTag during a speech titled
"Can Open Source Systems Re-invent Themselves?". An article
summarizing the speech will be published on typo3.org soon.
Communication Committee
The
Communication Committee has been rebuilt with the help of new members
in order to cover the many communication channels of TYPO3 as a
project and as a brand. Currently, the team consists of the following
people:
- Daniel
Hinderink – Committee Leader - Robert
Lemke – typo3.org responsible and member of the board of the T3A - Rasmus
Skjoldan – Design team manager and CI expert - Michelle
Heizer – Press relations - Patrick
Gaumond – Documentation and general communications watchdog - Daniel
Haneberg – Will work on a brand book which is supposed to become the
manual for TYPO3 brand communications (more on that later). - Thomas
Hempel – News team leader - Andreas
Lenz – Coordination with the TYPO3 news magazine
More members
will be added to complete the team, the next steps being establishing
operations, completing the style guide and starting work on the brand
book.
