Application: The TYPO3 Community Podcast

Season 2 Highlights – the highs, the lows, and everything in between

Meet Thomas "Spoony" Löffler, TYPO3 Freelancer and Contributor, Germany

In this episode, we speak with TYPO3 Team Lead Thomas “Spoony” Löffler, a developer and contributor to TYPO3 since 2005. Thomas loves attending TYPO3 events and he also runs his own one-person TYPO3 agency, Spooner Web. We speak about his extensive experience with TYPO3, his love for TYPO3 events, and the support he’s received and given to the TYPO3 community. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Go...

Meet Tymoteusz "Tymek" Motylewski, TYPO3 Core Contributor, Poland

In this episode, we hear from Tymoteusz “Tymek” Motylewski, Co-Founder and CTO of Macopedia and TYPO3 Core contributor. Today, we discuss his introduction to the TYPO3 community in the early 2000s, his favorite features and hidden gems of TYPO3, and his work helping make TYPO3 a powerful and easy to set up headless CMS. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts RSS feed Connect: @TYP...

Meet Susi Moog, TYPO3 GmbH COO, Germany

In this episode, I speak with Susi Moog, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the TYPO3 GmbH. Today we learn about how she first came to know and use TYPO3, what her day-to-day role consists of, and how the TYPO3 GmbH enhances the CMS technology and supports the community, agencies, and professionals within it.  Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts RSS feed Connect: @TYPO3 on Tw...

Meet Petra Hasenau, TYPO3 Association Board Vice President, Germany

In this episode, I speak with Petra Hasenau, the TYPO3 Association Board Vice President and the CEO of cybercraft GmbH. Today, we cover her introduction to TYPO3 and open source, her inclusive approach to community building, and her cooking channel! Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts RSS feed Connect: @TYPO3 on Twitter Meet the TYPO3 Project. Thank you: The TYPO3 Associat...

Meet Jochen Weiland, TYPO3 Teacher, Contributor, Hoster, Germany

In this episode, I speak with Jochen Weiland, who has been involved with TYPO3 since 2002, and now runs a full-service TYPO3 agency, jweiland.net. We talked about his significant contributions to the TYPO3 documentation, how he learned the open source ethos from the TYPO3 founder himself, Kasper Skårhøj, as well as Jochen's favorite aspects of TYPO3. Read the full post and transcript here. Listen and subscribe to the Application Podcast on: iTunes  Spotify Google Podcasts Buzzsprout RS...

Meet Jochen Weiland, TYPO3 Teacher, Contributor, Hoster, Germany

In this episode, I speak with Jochen Weiland, who has been involved with TYPO3 since 2002, and now runs a full-service TYPO3 agency, jweiland.net. We talked about his significant contributions to the TYPO3 documentation, how he learned the open source ethos from the TYPO3 founder himself, Kasper Skårhøj, as well as Jochen's favorite aspects of TYPO3. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podca...

Meet Mathias Bolt Lesniak, TYPO3 Board Member, Norway

In this episode, I speak with Mathias Bolt Lesniak, a TYPO3 Board Member and valued TYPO3 Guidebook contributor who works at toujou. In this episode we speak about Mathias’s favorite TYPO3 features, TYPO3 as a force for democratization in the world, and the give-and-take of open source contribution that characterizes the TYPO3 community. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts RSS fee...

Meet Larry Garfield, TYPO3 Core Developer, Chicago, USA

In this episode, I speak with Larry Garfield, a long-time PHP developer and recent addition to the TYPO3 core development team. We talk about the history of PHP and open source, Larry’s “scorched Earth” campaign against PHP 4 (his words), and what it’s like to be embraced by the TYPO3 community as a newbie. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts RSS feed Connect: @TYPO3 on Twitter...

Meet Stefan Busemann, Multi-talented TYPO3 Contributor, Germany

In this episode I speak with Stefan Busemann. Stefan began TYPO3 in 2005, rapidly became a TYPO3 freelance developer, then a TYPO3 agency founder and owner around 2010. In that time, he has been a huge contributor to the project in many ways, and today, he is still a TYPO3 Association Board member, Supervisory Board Member of TYPO3 GmbH, and a member of the TYPO3.org website team. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: i...

Meet Adrian Zimmermann, TYPO3 OG, Switzerland

Today we speak with Adrian Zimmermann, TYPO3 enthusiast and professional since (practically) the start. We talk about Adrian’s TYPO3 origin story and how his company, Snowflake Productions got its start, his favorite TYPO3 features, the interesting and varied work he’s created with the system, and TYPO3’s abundant community power and spirit … and snowboarding. Listen in to find out more about, “How snowboarding and open source taste so sweet together.” Read the full post and transcript here...

Meet Adrian Zimmermann, TYPO3 OG, Switzerland

Today we speak with Adrian Zimmermann, TYPO3 enthusiast and professional since (practically) the start. We talk about Adrian’s TYPO3 origin story and how his company, Snowflake Productions got its start, his favorite TYPO3 features, the interesting and varied work he’s created with the system, and TYPO3’s abundant community power and spirit … and snowboarding. Listen in to find out more about, “How snowboarding and open source taste so sweet together.” Read the full post and transcript, and...

Meet Daniel Homorodean **Re-Upload** w/ credits and music!

**RE-UPLOAD** Now with full credits and theme music! We recently uploaded a draft version of this conversation and then struck technical difficulties. Here's the final mix ... thanks for your patience! Today we speak with Daniel Homorodean, the Romania-based CEO of web development agency Arxia, and a leader of the TYPO3 Expansion Committee. We talk about Daniel’s 15 years of experience with TYPO3, the most important factors of TYPO3 international expansion, and how TYPO3 helps you tackle mo...

Meet Daniel Homorodean, Leader of TYPO3 Expansion, Romania

Today we speak with Daniel Homorodean, a Romania-based CEO of web development agency Arxia, and a leader of the TYPO3 Expansion Committee. We talk about Daniel’s 15 years of experience with TYPO3, the most important factors of TYPO3 international expansion, and how TYPO3 helps you tackle more advanced projects than you could before. Read the full post and transcript here. Listen and subscribe to the Application Podcast on: iTunes  Spotify Google Podcasts Buzzsprout RSS feed ----------...

Meet Daniel Homorodean, TYPO3 Expansion Lead, Romania

Today we speak with Daniel Homorodean, the Romania-based CEO of web development agency Arxia, and a leader of the TYPO3 Expansion Committee. We talk about Daniel’s 15 years of experience with TYPO3, the most important factors of TYPO3 international expansion, and how TYPO3 helps you tackle more advanced projects than you could before. Read the full post and transcript here. Listen and subscribe to the Application Podcast on: iTunes  Spotify Google Podcasts Buzzsprout RSS feed --------...

Meet Daniel Homorodean, TYPO3 Expansion Lead, Romania (oops episode)

This is an "oopsie" episode, ... We uploaded a cut of it without music or credits ... Feel free to skip to the next episode in our stream to hear the full experience :-) Today we speak with Daniel Homorodean, the Romania-based CEO of web development agency Arxia, and a leader of the TYPO3 Expansion Committee. We talk about Daniel’s 15 years of experience with TYPO3, the most important factors of TYPO3 international expansion, and how TYPO3 helps you tackle more advanced projects than you co...

Meet Daniel Siepmann, TYPO3 Contributor, Friend, and Helper, Germany

Today we speak with Daniel Siepmann, a Germany-based TYPO3 contributor, developer, and integrator, who co-founded his own web agency, Codappix GmbH. Daniel was also a big contributor to the TYPO3 Guidebook. In this episode, Daniel talks about his involvement in the TYPO3 community, becoming a better developer, and his favorite aspects of TYPO3.  Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts ...

Meet Annett Jähnichen, TYPO3 Developer, Germany

Today we speak with Annett Jähnichen, a Germany-based TYPO3 integrator and developer who works at webit!. She is also a powerful force behind the TYPO3 Structured Content Initiative. We talk about her favorite features and aspects of TYPO3, how and why to join TYPO3 Initiatives, and the helpfulness of the TYPO3 community. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts RSS feed Connect: @T...

Season One Wrap-up, Season Two Preview!

On today’s episode of Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast, we bring you a bonus episode where the tables are turned. Our usual host, Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire, is interviewed about how the podcast has been going, how we got where we are, and where Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast is heading next in Season Two! Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts RSS feed Connect: @T...

Thank you TYPO3 Guidebook Contributors!

On today’s brief episode of Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast, I speak with Felicity Brand, a fellow team member at Open Strategy Partners and author of the TYPO3 guidebook, which we've been putting together for the last couple of years here at Open Strategy Partners. It's a real privilege for us to help channel the work of the TYPO3 community, and we feel it's time that more people heard about it. We would like to give an appreciation round for everyone who contributed to the TYPO3 g...

Meet Volker Graubaum (3 of 3), Chief Product Officer of TYPO3, Germany

 In today’s episode, we rejoin my epic conversation with TYPO3 Chief Product Officer, Volker Graubaum, for part three of three. We talk about TYPO3 as a community product, communication as part of product development, and breaking down TYPO3’s theme-based roadmap. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts RSS feed Connect: @TYPO3 on Twitter Meet the TYPO3 Project. Thank you: The...

Meet Volker Graubaum (Part 3), Chief Product Officer of TYPO3, Germany

 In today’s episode, we rejoin my epic conversation with TYPO3 Chief Product Officer, Volker Graubaum, for part three of three. We talk about TYPO3 as a community product, communication as part of product development, and breaking down TYPO3’s theme-based roadmap. Read the full post and transcript here. Listen and subscribe to the Application Podcast on: iTunes  Spotify Google Podcasts Buzzsprout RSS feed --------------------------------------------------------------- LET’S CONNECT  ...

Meet Volker Graubaum (Part 3), Chief Product Officer of TYPO3, Germany

 In today’s episode, we rejoin my epic conversation with TYPO3 Chief Product Officer, Volker Graubaum, for part three of three. We talk about TYPO3 as a community product, communication as part of product development, and breaking down TYPO3’s theme-based roadmap. Read the full post and transcript here. Listen and subscribe to the Application Podcast on: iTunes  Spotify Google Podcasts Buzzsprout RSS feed --------------------------------------------------------------- LET’S CONNECT  ...

Meet Volker Graubaum (2 of 3), TYPO3 Chief Product Officer, Germany

Today’s episode of Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast, is part 2 of 3 episodes featuring Volker Graubaum, the Chief Product Officer of TYPO3. We learn about how TYPO3 was headless before it was cool, Volker’s strategy of “community and market listening”, and how good storytelling can help you break into new markets. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts RSS feed Connect: @T...

Meet Volker Graubaum Pt 2, TYPO3 Chief Product Officer, Germany

Today’s episode of Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast, is part 2 of 3 episodes featuring Volker Graubaum, the Chief Product Officer of TYPO3. We learn about how TYPO3 was headless before it was cool, Volker’s strategy of “community and market listening”, and how good storytelling can help you break into new markets. Read the full post and transcript here. Listen and subscribe to the Application Podcast on: iTunes  Spotify Google Podcasts Buzzsprout RSS feed ---------------------...

Meet Volker Graubaum Pt 2, TYPO3 Chief Product Officer, Germany

Today’s episode of Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast, is part 2 of 3 episodes featuring Volker Graubaum, the Chief Product Officer of TYPO3. We learn about how TYPO3 was headless before it was cool, Volker’s strategy of “community and market listening”, and how good storytelling can help you break into new markets. Read the full post and transcript here. Listen and subscribe to the Application Podcast on: iTunes  Spotify Google Podcasts Buzzsprout RSS feed ---------------------...

Meet Volker Graubaum, TYPO3 Chief Product Officer, Germany

Today’s episode of Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast, features Volker Graubaum, the Chief Product Officer of TYPO3. We dig into the idea of community software and a community product, and his vision for serving the TYPO3 community. Read the full post and transcript here. Listen and subscribe to the Application Podcast on: iTunes  Spotify Google Podcasts Buzzsprout RSS feed --------------------------------------------------------------- LET’S CONNECT  Twitter Facebook Instag...

Meet Volker Graubaum (1 of 3), TYPO3 Chief Product Officer, Germany

Today’s episode of Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast, features Volker Graubaum, the Chief Product Officer of TYPO3. We dig into the idea of community software and a community product, and his vision for serving the TYPO3 community. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts RSS feed Connect: @TYPO3 on Twitter Meet the TYPO3 Project. Thank you: The TYPO3 Association for spo...

Meet Volker Graubaum, TYPO3 Chief Product Officer, Germany

Today’s episode of Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast, features Volker Graubaum, the Chief Product Officer of TYPO3. We dig into the idea of community software and a community product, and his vision for serving the TYPO3 community. Read the full post and transcript here. Listen and subscribe to the Application Podcast on: iTunes  Spotify Google Podcasts Buzzsprout RSS feed --------------------------------------------------------------- LET’S CONNECT  Twitter Facebook Instag...

Meet Sybille Peters, TYPO3 Documentation Contributor, Germany

Today we speak with Sybille Peters, a Germany-based developer who’s responsible for the web presence at the University of Oldenburg. She is also very active on the TYPO3 Community Documentation Team. We talk about the joys of open source contribution and collaboration in the TYPO3 community, and her favorite features TYPO3 has to offer. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts RSS feed...

Meet Andri Steiner, TYPO3 Server Team Lead, Switzerland

By night, Andri Steiner he is the TYPO3 Server Team Lead, where he focuses on hosting and configuring servers, and keeping the community’s digital infrastructure up-(to-date) and running. By day, he’s a CTO and Partner at Ops One, living and working in Zürich, Switzerland. We spoke with Andri about his work and life in tech, 2020 things, and more. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts...

Meet Mathias Schreiber, TYPO3 GmbH CEO, Germany

Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts RSS feed Connect: @TYPO3 on Twitter Meet the TYPO3 Project. Thank you: The TYPO3 Association for sponsoring this podcast b13 and Stefanie Kreuzer for our logo Patrick Gaumond for our wonderful theme music License Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast by the TYPO3 Association, Open Strategy Partners, and Jeffrey A. McGuire is l...

Meet Mathias Schreiber, TYPO3 GmbH CEO, Germany

Meet Benni Mack Part 1, TYPO3 Project Lead, Germany

Benni Mack has been working with TYPO3 since 2007, and he’s currently the TYPO3 Core Development Lead. He also co-founded b13, based in Stuttgart, Germany, which builds web-based solutions for customers around the world using open source technologies like TYPO3. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts RSS feed Connect: @TYPO3 on Twitter Meet the TYPO3 Project. Thank you: The T...

Meet Benni Mack Part 2, TYPO3 Project Lead, Germany

As we cover in Part 1, Benni Mack has been working with TYPO3 since 2007, and he’s currently the TYPO3 Core Development Lead. He also co-founded b13, based in Stuttgart, Germany, which builds web-based solutions for customers around the world using open source technologies like TYPO3. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org. Listen, like, subscribe: iTunes Spotify Google Podcasts RSS feed Connect: @TYPO3 on Twitter Meet the TYPO3 Proje...

Meet Patrick Gaumond, Technical Lead of Québec.ca, Canada

Meet Patrick Gaumond, Technical Lead of Québec.ca, the government website of the French-speaking Canadian province and the entire population’s official source for Covid-19-related information. During the pandemic, the site’s been handling a million or more hits a day with no downtime at all. Patrick has been proudly flying the TYPO3 flag since 2003, and today we talk about why he's chosen to stay with it all this time. Read the full post and transcript on typo3.org: https://typo3.org/podcas...

Meet Patrick Gaumond, Technical Lead of Québec.ca, Canada

Meet Patrick Gaumond, Technical Lead of Québec.ca, the government website of the French-speaking Canadian province and the entire population’s official source for Covid-19-related information. During the pandemic, the site’s been handling a million or more hits a day with no downtime at all. Patrick has been proudly flying the TYPO3 flag since 2003, and today we talk about why he's chosen to stay with it all this time. Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on t...

Meet Felicity Brand: TYPO3 Guidebook Author, Australia

Join Jeffrey A. McGuire as he chats with Felicity Brand about her background in technical writing, how technical writing is a structured creative process and her experience in joining the TYPO3 community.  This is a special edition of the Application podcast: Felicity has spent more than the last year on a project for and with the TYPO3 community creating the TYPO3 guidebook and that's coming out from Apress in January 2021. We get to explore the book, how it came into being and how this le...

Meet Felicity Brand: TYPO3 Guidebook Author, Australia

Join Jeffrey A. McGuire as he chats with Felicity Brand about her background in technical writing, how technical writing is a structured creative process and her experience in joining the TYPO3 community.  This is a special edition of the Application podcast: Felicity has spent more than the last year on a project for and with the TYPO3 community creating the TYPO3 guidebook and that's coming out from Apress in January 2021. We get to explore the book, how it came into being, and how this l...

Meet Luisa Faßbender: Community Marketing, Germany

Join Jeffrey A. McGuire as he chats with Luisa Faßbender about her path from student to intern to agency job to 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. Read...

Meet Luisa Faßbender: Community Marketing, Germany.

Join Jeffrey A. McGuire as he chats with Luisa Faßbender about her path from student to intern to agency job to 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. Read...

Meet Luisa Faßbender: Community Marketing, Germany

Join Jeffrey A. McGuire as he chats with Luisa Faßbender about her path from student to intern to agency job to 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. Read...

Meet Tomas Norre Mikkelsen, Danish Developer in Germany, S1E2

Meet Tomas Norre: Community, Contribution, Crawler Golf! Join Jeffrey A. McGuire as he chats with Tomas Norre Mikkelsen, Developer at AOE in Germany, about his professional life, his open-source life, maintaining the TYPO3 crawler extension and using TYPO3 every day of his life 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.

Meet Tomas Norre Mikkelsen, Danish Developer in Germany

Meet Tomas Norre: Community, Contribution, Crawler Golf! Join Jeffrey A. McGuire as he chats with Tomas Norre Mikkelsen, Developer at AOE in Germany, about his professional life, his open-source life, maintaining the TYPO3 crawler extension and using TYPO3 every day of his life 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. Read the full post and tra...

Meet Tomas Norre Mikkelsen, Danish Developer in Germany.

Meet Tomas Norre: Community, Contribution, Crawler Golf! Join Jeffrey A. McGuire as he chats with Tomas Norre Mikkelsen, Developer at AOE in Germany, about his professional life, his open-source life, maintaining the TYPO3 crawler extension and using TYPO3 every day of his life 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.

Meet Rachel Foucard, TYPO3 Community Lead, France

Join Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire as he chats with Rachel Foucard, TYPO3 Community Lead in France, 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.  Read the full post and transcript, and catch up on all our episodes on typo3.org...

Application: The TYPO3 Community Podcast

Welcome to Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast! Hosted by Jeffrey A. McGuire, this is where we share your stories, your projects, and the difference you make ... in, around, and with TYPO3 CMS.  Application is conversations connecting developers, marketers, consultants, integrators, designers, and end-users with each other and the value we all deliver.  As we meet the community, we will be looking for insights that we can all learn from. We’ll be asking about our guest’s origin storie...