TYPO3 talk with Georg Ringer: TYPO3 needs more people!

I have been around TYPO3 since 2005 and mostly known for my extensions which started with the prefix “rg” like rgsmoothgallery. The most used extension is for sure “news”.

I supported a nonprofit organization of my mother and after using Frontpage and Dreamweaver, I searched for a CMS as a replacement and ended up with TYPO3

Besides being part of the core team as a framework merger I invest a lot of time into creating extensions and maintaining those.
Since Summer 2020 I also teach at the FH-Oberösterreich (https://www.fh-ooe.at)
My employer strongly believes in Open-Source and sponsors quite some hours as well.

Do what you can do best vs learning new things. While I am definitely a so-called backend developer I currently spend some time learning the current frontend techniques.
Special tip: Be an active part of the community which enables you to easily stay in contact with top developers to learn from and to ask if you got some problems to solve.

Feeling very lucky to be able to shape the future and to benefit from the sucess. Not only TYPO3 has evolved but the web in overall

TYPO3 should not only be the best tool for enterprise websites but also for smaller sites or landing pages. We constantly try to remove entry barriers and make it easier for everybody.

State of the art frontend template

TYPO3 users are not used to paying for extensions or services. Maybe this is related to the missing Shop or something else?

The requirements for websites are so diverse and amount of customers so high, there is simply no need to keep developed extensions or knowledge behind closed doors - just the opposite - not required to develop something again what others already did enables developers and agencies to concentrate on other, new and exciting stuff.

Developing the 10th version of tt_address also means that this extension has to be maintained by you alone. Also, every feature needs to be done by yourself and nobody helps you with bug fixing.

Reaching more people and helping those to reach their goals in an easier way is always good. TYPO3 needs more people getting involved - in every manner.

I haven’t used this Shop yet but as a typical backend developer, I will give it a try for sure to avoid writing any CSS code ;) It’s great that there are so many templates available already!

Very important as PHP can just be copied to the server and it runs.

The page tree and the page module.

Benni Mack, Sebastian Schreiber, Oliver Bartsch, Benjamin Franzke, Helmut Hummel, Michael Telgkamp

github.com/b13

More people caring about TYPO3 is certainly a good thing.

Finish the features TYPO3 is good at and invest in a good frontend default template

Currently looking into Laravel

Biking, Running, and now as my kids get older starting with hiking