How to Connect with Amazing TYPO3 Community?

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In my one decade of experience with the TYPO3 Community, One thing is very clear that if you stay in touch with the community will definitely improve yourself.

By connecting with TYPO3 Community members, Your learning curves, and knowledge will extremely improve, You can explore and get experience from the TYPO3 core guys and experts.

Benefits to connect with the community’s list is long, but here are some of them;

• Improve your TYPO3 technical skills
• Getting industrial standards TYPO3 solution (for your particular problem)
• Keep up-to-date with latest TYPO3
• Meet with the TYPO3 core team
• Better social-networking and communication skills
• Get together and fun with awesome TYPO3 Community

Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic crises, there will be very few TYPO3 events in 2020. In the world, the upcoming time is going to change how people connect, most chances there the people will connect on digital platforms.

Notice from TYPO3 Association
As of today 2nd June 2020, No Physical TYPO3 Association Meetings. Due to the Covid-19 (Corona) virus crisis, the TYPO3 Association Board advises the organization’s officials and team leaders to stop physical meetings in the Association’s name until further notice. Read more

Take a good cup of coffee, and get ready to see how many ways you can connect digitally and fact-to-face get together with TYPO3 Community members.

First of all, I suggest you become a TYPO3 Community member from by little give back to the community 7.92 EUR (of course, it’s not compulsory), You will be part of the TYPO3 association.

Join TYPO3 Community Membership and Get the following benefits.

• Participate in the yearly T3A General Assembly
• Participate at official votings (EAB, BCC)
• See and discuss the yearly budgets.
• Use the membership logo at your website

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Personally, One of my favorite of TYPO3 events and one of the longest TYPO3 official events. If you are a TYPO3 developer or integrator, You should join at least once (then, you will be regularly part of it ;) Here are some quick highlights.

• Four days TYPO3 event each year (generally arranged in the month of July or Aug)
• Number of TYPO3 Talks, Sessions, and Workshops
• Meet and get to know with a TYPO3 core team
• Share and gain knowledge and experience
• Explore New ideas and problem-solving
• Explore new culture
• Enjoy Food and Fun

Each year, there is an official T3DD dedicated website eg., https://t3dd19.typo3.com/ Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, This year T3DD20 has been canceled keeping everyone’s health and safety. Keep the following T3DD on Twitter

Team T3Planet attended The Journey of NITSAN at T3DD18 and This year at TYPO3 Developer Days - the speechless experience, Hoping to attend and make it part of a yearly ritual.

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TYPO3 International Conference, an especially well-designed and organized event for TYPO3 business people. Here are some quick highlights.

• Two days TYPO3 conference each year (IMHO, would be nice to have 3/4 days)
• Business Talks
• Meet with team TYPO3 GmbH
• The awesome TYPO3 Award event

As same as T3DD, T3CON year-wise dedicated website eg., https://t3con19.typo3.com/ Due to COVID-19, still the decision is pending to organize T3CON20. Keep following  T3CON on Twitter for updates.

Our business executives attended the TYPO3 Conference 2018 and TYPO3 Conference 2019, Netherlands.

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One of the oldest TYPO3 events blended with sports like snowboarding and skiing, and in the evening there are amazing talks about TYPO3. Take a look at the official website of T3BOARD at https://t3board.typo3.org/

The teams and committees of the TYPO3 Community take on tasks within specific areas, such as core development, education, communication and security.

Join the TYPO3 Team

Take a look at TYPO3 teams https://typo3.org/community/teams like TYPO3 core team, marketing team, education team, security team etc.,

Connect at TYPO3 Sprints

Each TYPO3 team organizes sprints on a monthly basis withs specific work and goals, so you can personally meet with them. Last year, We had TYPO3 code sprints at our office, You will love to see Glimpse to the first ever TYPO3 Code Sprint, India/Asia. We wish & hope to organise this year too.

TYPO3 Initiatives

An “initiative” consists of people with a common interest to make long-term improvements in a specific area of TYPO3 including strategic plans, goals, task-breakdown and monitoring of progress. Join your favorite TYPO3 Initiatives

Now let’s list and talk about how can you be part of digital platforms of TYPO3.

Fact is that, due to COVID-19 crisis, The world is going to bit change, more and more people will prefer to connect and work remotely on digital platforms.

Official TYPO3 social media channels

• TYPO3 Official Twitter
• TYPO3 Association Twitter
• TYPO3 GmbH Facebook
• TYPO3.Press

Un-Official TYPO3 Groups

• TYPO3 Facebook Group
• TYPO3 Facebook German Language Group
• TYPO3 Users Group at LinkedIn
• TYPO3 Developer Group at LinkedIn
• TYPO3 Group at Xing

Live chat with TYPO3 + Slack

To connect with any person, team or group, the TYPO3 Community highly recommends using Slack for TYPO3.

Some of the popular TYPO3 slack channels like;

• #announcements: the TYPO3 project announcement channel - you will automatically join this channel, but you can not post there.
• #typo3-cms: TYPO3 CMS Support-Channel
• #typo3-cms-coredev: TYPO3 CMS core development channel
• #random: have fun, share anything you like

Reach personally and in-groups to ask your questions, idea, help, or support.

Stackoverflow for TYPO3 Questions and Answers

Although Slack is a good channel, I personally highly recommend using Stackoverflow for TYPO3 for help, questions, and answers.

In that way, Other guys can get benefits from your already asked questions and answers.

Idea or Issue for TYPO3 Core CMS

Do you have any ideas or questions for the TYPO3 core? You can always explore and contribute to TYPO3 core at TYPO3 Forge Read more at TYPO3 Contribution Guide.

TYPO3 Forums

At the early stage of TYPO3 use a mailing list for help and support, and still, some of the channels are active.

• Mailing List (join the particular your Mailing list)
• Forum
• German Forum
• German Forum

TYPO3 Blog

Many TYPO3 friends are writing good blog articles, You can keep in touch with them by asking your questions into comments or requesting them to write your question’s article.

Here are some of the popular TYPO3 blog:

• Official TYPO3 Blogs
• TYPO3worx
• Use TYPO3
• TYPO3 Manual
• NITSAN
• Reelworx
• Daniel Siepmann
• Doc Core Insight
• Scripting Base
• Blogs by Torben Hansen
• Blogs by Richard Haeser
• Blogs by Sebastian Klein

Also, We are continuously writing TYPO3 blog, so we recommend to subscribe our TYPO3 Newsletter at https://t3planet.com/subscribe-typo3-newsletter/ to regularly receive top reads of TYPO3 straight to your mailbox.

TYPO3 Discussion & Decisions

Decision.TYPO3.org platform is meant for discussions and votings on strategic topics of greater impact for the TYPO3 Core Development.

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