TYPO3 Academic Committee 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 interesting topic followed by time for questions and discussion.
Chatbots in practice (VBG & University of Erfurt)
Date: Friday, 5 December 2025, at 10:30
Speaker: André Richter (queonext) and Eric Schümann (Uni Erfurt)
Online meeting: BBB room, University of Oldenburg
Language: German
- André Richter (queonext) will show us the VBG chatbot, based on MS Copilot. He will not only provide technical details on its implementation, but also exciting statistics on its use and an outlook on its further development.
- Eric Schümann (University of Erfurt) will present the university chatbot. This uses its own Python stack (LangChain, Mistral). You will learn how its own crawler keeps the data up to date and what hurdles need to be overcome with regard to dates and bilingual content.
Two approaches that pursue the same goal: better service for website users!
Structured data — Make Google Happy
Date: Friday, 20 Juni 2025, at 10:30
Speakers: Eric Schümann (Uni Erfurt)
Language: German
Online meeting: BBB room Uni Oldenburg
More visibility, better user experience: practical knowledge from the University of Erfurt
How do you make content understandable for search engines and users alike? In this presentation, you will learn how structured data helps to make websites more visible and accessible. Using specific examples from the University of Erfurt, we will show you which markup formats have proven successful, what has already been implemented and what improvements are imminent.
A compact insight with practical benefits — from the basics to test procedures and tools.
The aim is to provide the information on our websites as systematically as possible so that search engines, for example, can analyze this information in the best possible way, which in turn increases our findability and the quality of search hits. At schema.org there are many ‘schemas’, i.e. defined formats for different types of information. We can also use these for ourselves.
This is also an important question for non-technical people: What kind of information can or should be provided in a ‘structured’ way, and how does this work in practice? What can be done, if anything, to better position your own offering here?
Publish Publication lists
Date: Friday, 28 March 2025, at 10:30
Speakers: Volker Burggräf (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg) and others
Language: German
Online meeting: BBB room Uni Oldenburg
We will look at different ways to output publication lists in TYPO3 pages. We will discuss ORCID connection, BibTeX files, the TYPO3 extension ‘publications’ and possibly more.
Powermail Cleaner
Date: Friday, 06 December 2024, at 10:30
Speakers: Ulfried Herrmann (Bauhaus University Weimar)
Language: German
Online meeting: BBB room Uni Oldenburg
The new add-on extension for Powermail, with which you can automatically delete stored form data from the TYPO3 database in compliance with GDPR, has been ready for 14 days!
The development of Powermail Cleaner was made possible by joint funding from several universities and is now freely available.
What can Powermail Cleaner do? How easy or complicated is it to work with? Ulfried Herrmann from the Bauhaus University Weimar will give us an input with a practical demonstration and of course we will have the opportunity to ask questions afterwards.
The TYPO3 dashboard
Date: Friday, 28 June 2024, at 10:30
Speakers: TYPO3 team of the TU Braunschweig
Language: German
Online meeting: BBB room Uni Oldenburg
Since TYPO3 10 there is the dashboard, which can be activated as an additional view. "Widgets" can be placed there, which can contain various information to provide orientation about current to-dos or similar. The TYPO3 team at TU Braunschweig has kindly agreed to give us a practical demonstration of this and show us how the dashboard can be put to good use in everyday life! As always, there will also be time for questions and suggestions.
Link verification with the brofix extension
Date: Friday, 1 March 2023, at 10:30
Speakers: Sybille Peters and Volker Burggräf (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg)
Language: German
Online meeting: BBB room Uni Oldenburg
There are many hyperlinks to internal or external websites or to download documents on our university websites - and thus unfortunately also broken links from time to time when there are changes to the link destinations. The brofix extension helps to find and correct broken links. It can be found in the TER and is compatible with TYPO3 v9 to v12. We are particularly pleased that the developer of brofix will be presenting the extension in person at our T3AC Happy Hour! Various functionalities will be demonstrated, which have already been developed over a long period of time in practice and for practice.
Job advertisements
Date: Friday, 17 November 2023, at 10:30
Language: German
Speaker: Volker Burggräf (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg) and everyone who wants to present their solution
We want to discuss procedures for the presentation of job advertisements with TYPO3
Emergency website for universities and colleges
Date: Friday, 16 June 2023, at 10:30
Speaker: Alex Kellner (in2code), Klaus Fumy (Universität Ulm)
Language: German
in2code presents a concept for an emergency website in case of a hack. The Uni Ulm is a customer of in2code and reports on the setup.
Automatic translations with DeepL in TYPO3 (extension wv_deepltranslate)
Date: Friday, 24 February 2023, at 10:30
Speaker: Volker Burggräf (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg)
The extension wv_deepltranslate will be demonstrated. With the financial participation of several universities, it has now been extended to include the ability to include one's own translation glossaries.