Mathias comes from a background in advertising in the music industry. After venturing into musical instrument wholesale he moved to the advertising side of things in the late 90s.
His first contact with TYPO3 happened in 2001 when he became part of netfielders and was introduced closely to the TYPO3 community. After being an active member in the TYPO3 Association he took some time off community work to come back in 2013 by raising funds for the 6.2 release and later being sponsored as a full-time product owner in late 2014.
In 2016 Mathias got chosen to become CEO of the TYPO3 GmbH in order to further foster the development and visibility of TYPO3 worldwide.
In his few hours off TYPO3 a week he tries to master the guitar while living with his wife and dog in Düsseldorf, Germany.
There are still lots of people who mistakenly believe that open-source software is just about saving money. It’s not. The move to open-source technology is a much more fundamental shift.
For the 5th time, the Barcamp in Venlo is a fixed date on our calendar - especially because it’s a nice mix of meeting old friends as well as making new ones.
We spent the last months designing the new Partner Program for the TYPO3 ecosystem.
Our goal was to build a framework that allows everyone who is building solutions with TYPO3 to shine in their respective fields, rather than just a simple buy-in with a membership.
You are thinking about using an Open Source Software but are unsure whether you might get the same support that a paid software would have. In the following sections we’re presenting the different levels of support you can leverage for typical open source projects.
Choosing software is a difficult process. You need to find a solution that fits your needs, it has to have all the features you need and last but not least it needs to be reasonably priced.
December 2016 began with a cool event in Berlin - SymfonyCon.
We want to share our view on the event and most importantly how the PHP ecosystem in general and TYPO3 in particular are affected by this.
One of the fundamental problems with doing a lot of stuff: Unless you tell what you are doing, people start to think you are not doing anything.
So, we understand that the lack of communication in the past weeks wasn't good. Indeed, and we hope you understand, it was because we did a LOT of things. However, we'd like to say sorry and promise we'll do better in the near future.