The 3rd day of users for TYPO3 and open source convinced atmosphere through interesting lectures, relaxed atmosphere and positive participant reaction with interesting lectures, looser and the third user tagging positive response of the participants in the sold-out atrium of the Industrie und Handelskammer Frankfurt/Main successfully to end. Participants and organisers could draw a positive balance. Already for the third time the users for TYPO3 and open source took place and attracted this year after Frankfurt am Main back around 100 interested Web developers, IT professionals, project managers and users from the whole Federal territory. Under the umbrella of the host, the IHK Frankfurt, the participants experienced a total of ten lectures from the trenches of TYPO3. After a greeting by Reinhard Frohlich (Director corporate communications IHK Frankfurt), a colorful series of lectures on the topics of open source and law, e-Government, expected participants intranet, accessibility, search engine optimization, TYPO3 and SAP, tourism and e-commerce to the use of TYPO3 for global players such as CiscoWebex. A themed mix which go down well with the public and provided for numerous suggestions and insights.
“That open source software has already crossed the threshold to the growth path, made Frank p. Salyne of the open source business foundation in his keynote address clearly: we assume that about 15% of the total stock of software open source is still the embeded top open source”, which is integrated into many operating systems and applications and constitutes a proportion of 50-60 percent. Open source is omnipresent and long no fringes more.” In addition to numerous old acquaintance”many new participants have found their way to the user day to get an impression of the current state of development of TYPO3 and giving new impetus to get suggestions and approaches for their own work. Between the lectures, the opportunity for discussion and for the sharing of experience – an essential feature of the TYPO3 user day, offered here in a relaxed atmosphere which has been intensively used also in Frankfurt. Also for the organizers of this year’s day of the users was a success, so that now the sequel is planned in the coming year: with the user day this year we could put back a new benchmark in relation to number of visitors, participants and quality of the presentations after the successful events of the last two years. In addition to our media partners especially the economic development of Frankfurt as well as the Industrial Chamber of Commerce and as host were us a valuable partner”, so the Organizer Thomas Fleck, Managing Director of Netresearch GmbH & co. KG.