Hello from the neighboring island of TYPO3 CMS!

Co-presented with Benni Mack, technical lead for TYPO3 CMS.

There's been a recent uptick in talks about "getting off the island," cross-community collaboration with WordPress in Nashville, and interest building in Darmstadt among Drupal developers trying out a totally different CMS using the contribution tools to quickly set up a test site with TYPO3 CMS. We're innately curious folks, us open-source community members; we like trying new things and hearing about what others are up to! 

For the last six months (by the time DC Seattle happens!) I have been engaged with the TYPO3 CMS community learning how to work with their project, writing about it for publication, and connecting with the contributors who build it. Essentially, I've crammed the experience of onboarding into a wild new CMS world into a few months when I spent years getting to know Drupal! This intensive experience has brought many opportunities to interview key community members about their work, experience, and the culture surrounding TYPO3 CMS.

Now I would like to bring some of these stories back to the Drupal community particularly to inform our own contribution models going forward. The Drupal Core mentoring team, Drupal Association, and many Drupal community members have recently been focused on surfacing issues in our documentation and our contribution culture that inhibit many users' ability to join and contribute. When information and the time are difficult to come by people get discouraged. Thanks to some monumental efforts we've already made progress and are able to offer more Drupal users a path to becoming Drupal contributors.

By explaining in detail how the TYPO3 CMS community is structured, supported, and funded to drive unique and innovative architectural choices in the project I will show how the Drupal community can continue to improve our own processes.

This session will demonstrate how the way a community is supported can lead to really cool technical things being accomplished. Attendees may have intermediate or advanced technical knowledge or curiosity or may be any Drupal user interested in open source contribution. We'll go through methods and successes and have time to discuss, brainstorm, and create a plan to implement improvements to Drupal's contribution landscape.