What TYPO3 gives you and how can give back

1. TYPO3 & You
What TYPO3 gives you and how you can give back

2. Agenda
● About me
● What is this all about?
● TYPO3
● You
● Contribution and involvement
● Questions and answers

3. About me

4. About me
● Olivier Dobberkau, 48
● President of the TYPO3 Association
● TYPO3 since version 3.2
● Founder of dkd Internet Service GmbH, Germany
● Head of Research & Development
● Twitter: @T3RevNeverEnd
● E-Mail: olivier.dobberkau@typo3.org

5. What is this all
about?

6. What is this all about?
● You and TYPO3, TYPO3 and You
● Joining an open source community is difficult
● Lots of hidden doors
● Not everyone can contribute to the code base
● Give and take
● Inspiring to Share
● Community of interests
● Understanding motivation
● Find your spot and thrive on!

7. TYPO3

8. TYPO3
● Open Source Enterprise Content Management System
○ Web server, PHP & MySQL
● Existing since more the 15 years. Many releases
● Zillions of websites made with it
● Very much used in DACH area. Good usage in Europe
● 62,324,032 $ of worth man hours
● Initially invented and released by Kasper Skaarhoj
● Developed by a great community (over 50.000 typo3.org users)
● Under the patronage of the TYPO3 Association
○ Trademarks, financial and legal support
○ Events, information, education & certification

9. TYPO3 in numbers
● 3,833,548 lines of code
● 1133 person-years of effort
● Coding Languages
○ PHP 64%
○ Javascript 21%
○ XML 5%
○ CSS 5%
○ HTML 1,6%
● 95.6863 commits by 588 contributors
● 62,324,032 $ of worth man hours
● Source: https://www.openhub.net/p/typo3

10. The Y in TYPO is for
You

11. You
● Who are you?
○ TYPO3 Agency providing TYPO3 Services
○ TYPO3 Client searching for or using TYPO3 Services
○ Hosting Company
○ Open source coder
○ ???

12. Contribution &
Involvement

13. Contribution and Involvement
● How can you be active in the TYPO3 community?
○ Contribute to the code base
○ Join a team
■ Core Team
■ Marketing Team
■ T3ORG
■ Security
■ Documentation
○ Go to a TYPO3 event
■ Conference, barcamp, user group, meet TYPO3
■ Internet day Italy i.e.
○ Write a blog post
○ Ask questions on the forums, mailing lists, slack or stackoverflow

14. Contribution and Involvement
● Donate to TYPO3
● Join the TYPO3 Association
● Support a crowdfunding activity
● Go to a TYPO3 Event
● Join a Committee
● Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Youtube
○ @TYPO3,
● Post your thoughts with #TYPO3
● Show your TYPO3 project to the world!

15. More than a favour
● How can you return the favour of getting TYPO3 for free?
○ Place a link to typo3.org on your website
○ Use the right TYPO3 logo and link to typo3.org
○ Write a blog post about your TYPO3 usage
■ How you did stuff
○ Invite other Web Agencies for a TYPO3 demonstration
● Write a small thank you e-mail to the extension author
● Looks for someone amazon wishlist
● Send a gift or voucher to someone that you see doing stuff
● Sponsor the travel of somebody else contributing
● Send Sweets for a code sprint

16. Your todo list
● Create an account on typo3.org
○ https://typo3.org/my-account/sign-up/
● Join the TYPO3 slack
○ https://forger.typo3.org/slack
● Identify a project you can contribute to
○ https://typo3.org/teams-committees/
● Request a personal mentor
○ https://typo3.org/community/mentorship/
● Look out for a TYPO3 event
○ https://typo3.org/events/
● Join as a member of the TYPO3 Association
○ https://typo3.org/association/membership/levels/

17. Grazie!
Thank you!

18. Questions and answers

19. How to contact me
Olivier Dobberkau
President of the TYPO3 Association
TYPO3 Association, Sihlbruggstrasse 105, CH-6340 Baar, Switzerland
Support the TYPO3 project by joining the TYPO3 Association as a member:
http://typo3.org/join
E-Mail olivier.dobberkau@typo3.org
Web http://typo3.org/association/