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Academic Committee

The TYPO3 Academic Committee is made up of TYPO3 Association members from universities that use TYPO3-CMS for their homepages.

German Version

Currently, the Committee is focused on German-language regions. The working language is German. Reports are regularly published in English.

Tasks

The Academic Committee’s tasks include:

  • Representing universities’ interests in the TYPO3 Association
  • Providing a central point of contact for the TYPO3 Association
  • Supporting the TYPO3 Association, e.g. with technical resources
  • Introducing a TYPO3 Academic Membership
  • Holding regular university meetings
  • Establishing the TYPO3 University Community Package (T3UP)
  • Strengthening cooperation among universities for new features / extensions and their further development
  • Cooperating with the TYPO3 Association and TYPO3 Core Team in further development of TYPO3
  • Assisting the working groups

Members

The Academic Committee members are:

  • Up to 10 elected, voting members from universities (max. 1 per university). Another person from the same university may stand in for each member.
  • Every university may be an advising member.
  • 1 member of the TYPO3 Association Board as a liaison

Half of the voting members and 2 substitute members are elected at the annual TYPO3 University Day. Universities with TYPO3 membership are eligible to vote. The term of office is 2 years. The TYPO3 Association member is appointed by the Board.

Selection and Tasks of Officers

From among the voting members, the Committee elects one chairperson, a first deputy chairperson, and a second deputy chairperson. The term of office for each is 2 years. The tasks of the chairpersons include:

  • Calling for committee meetings, directing meetings, taking minutes
  • Managing the mailing list

Working Groups

The Committee may establish working groups for specific topics. In each working group, at least one member of the Committee should be represented. The working groups may also include members other than universities (e.g. agencies).

Working Platforms

Mailing list for all university representatives: typo3-universities@lists.univie.ac.atRegister

University Days

TYPO3 University Days is an annual conference for universities and academic institutions that use TYPO3 CMS (or are considering using it). It is organized by the TYPO3 Academic Committee together with a host university.

Happy Hour

Between the T3UD there are always quite big gaps with little exchange. To fill these gaps, the TYPO3 Academic Committee (T3AC) have established a one-hour online meeting that takes place approximately once a quarter, with a short keynote speech on an…

Members

Martina Ahlswede

Leader, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Matthias Greiling

Co-Leader, Bergische Universität Wuppertal

Volker Burggräf

Member, Universität Oldenburg

Christiane Coester

Member, Universität des Saarlandes

Raman Ganguly

Member, Universität Wien

Ulfried Herrmann

Member, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Yvonne Kneip

Member, Hochschule Osnabrück

Martin Schuhmann

Member, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Eric Schümann

Member, Universität Erfurt

Susanne Schwarz

Member, Universität Leipzig

Boris Hinzer

TYPO3 Association Representative