Today I spent most of my day gathering opinions and writing some conclusions about a thread going on in the core internal list about branding and strategy related to TYPO3, FLOW3 and the next-generation CMS that is being developed.

One of the things that struck me most was how the TYPO3 Association is viewed from the outside and the inside. Not much is known about how the TYPO3 Association functions and how the budgets are determined or granted. There is a Opens external link in new window"Boarding Please" blog, but nothing much happened there lately. I guess the members are modest in a way and do what they have to do without asking for any credits. I am sure we need to get some communication going there and I am looking at ways to make that work.

We face exiting times ahead of us with the new products. Exciting in the sense of impact in the opensource world and CMS world in particular and for us internally as a challenge to manage that change as a community and keep true to our motto "Inspiring People to Share".

Thanks everyone for following me this week. I hope you got a bit of an insight. It gave me a good overview of what I do as well. I will continu blogging about my work as a community manager, not in the regular interval as I did this week of course. If you have any remarks or suggestions then please add them here. You can also reach me by Opens window for sending emailmail.

Have a great and relaxing weekend

Ben