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title: Knowledge Unit
url: "https://typo3.community/contribute/units/knowledge"
image: "https://typo3.community/_assets/d1e01514e4c4a5b3147940fa2ec50682/Images/og-image-community.jpg"
date: 2026-11-05
modified: 2026-11-10
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# Knowledge Unit

Knowledge Unit
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The unit promotes the adoption, learning, and best-practice use of the TYPO3 product by collecting, documenting, managing, maintaining, and disseminating knowledge about it, its application, APIs, and practical use by editors, developers, integrators, consultants, and any other user types it chooses to define. It also promotes trust in the product and its users by defining the types, criteria, processes, courses, and tests by which TYPO3 users can achieve official verification of their knowledge and the documentation thereof (official certificates, diplomas, etc).

Responsibility Domain
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The Unit’s responsibilities are:

1. Support the adoption, learning, and best-practice use of the TYPO3 product.
2. Collecting, documenting, managing, maintaining, and disseminating knowledge about the TYPO3 product, its application, APIs, best practices, and practical use by editors, developers, integrators, consultants, and any other user types it chooses to define.
3. Defining the types, criteria, processes, courses, and tests by which TYPO3 users can achieve official verification of their knowledge.
4. Defining the official attestation of official verified knowledge of the TYPO3 product, such as official certificates, diplomas, etc.
5. Processes and requirements for proctors and proctoring of the above-mentioned verification.
6. Creation and prioritization of product roadmap and ecosystem proposals furthering the goals and responsibilities defined above, to be submitted to the Unit Cooperation Panel.
7. Defining standards for what constitutes an official TYPO3 training program.

Members
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#####  [ Sarah McCarthy ](https://my.typo3.org/u/sarahmccarthy123)

Unit Coordinator

 [ ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c0ead433744229cb3b295c5102310615?s=60) ](https://my.typo3.org/u/sarahmccarthy123)

#####  [ Tom Warwick ](https://my.typo3.org/u/tom.warwick)

Unit Deputy Coordinator

 [ ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/341a5b17a929916074e9f3c424ab8a13?s=60) ](https://my.typo3.org/u/tom.warwick)

#####  [ Andreas Wolf ](https://my.typo3.org/u/andreaswolf)

Unit Member

 [ ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/bf62b26a8da8622e1b4263b299b0e43f?s=60) ](https://my.typo3.org/u/andreaswolf)

#####  [ Ines Willenbrock ](https://my.typo3.org/u/icybaer)

Unit Member

 [ ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/eb1dea60e58af109516866ea4fe01a62?s=60) ](https://my.typo3.org/u/icybaer)

#####  [ Marc Willmann ](https://my.typo3.org/u/willmann)

Unit Member

 [ ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d0c4ae4f0d47d099b8107bcfa1e419a9?s=60) ](https://my.typo3.org/u/willmann)

#####  [ Sandra Erbel ](https://my.typo3.org/u/serbelanalog)

Unit Member

 [ ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/74ae33fc8b762b3e2db14db193f26817?s=60) ](https://my.typo3.org/u/serbelanalog)

#####  [ Stefan Frömken ](https://my.typo3.org/u/sfroemken@jweiland.net)

Unit Member

 [ ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/019b86c372b864022a8a3c67cf83f177?s=60) ](https://my.typo3.org/u/sfroemken@jweiland.net)