スノーフレイク株式会社・snowflake

TYPO3 activities in Japan: July - September (Q3/2011)

It was a long, hot and humid summer this year. During the summer months, the participation at exhibition and conferences were limited. Yet, we all enjoyed summer, including BBQs and cold beer!

Still, we inspired more people to get to know TYPO3 in Japan and were participating in the 2nd biggest open source conference in this country - the Kansai OSC, this time in held in Kyoto.

Open Source Conference Kansai/Kyoto - 15 & 16 July 2011
TYPO3 was present with a small booth. And TUGJ community member Hidefumi Okumura demonstrated the newest version of TYPO3 4.5 LTS with long time support to the audience.

TYPO3 Association in contact with Japan

The TYPO3 Association (T3A) has been publishing regularly activity reports, including updates of the international activities of communities worldwide... namely in Germany, France, Italy, USA, Canada, Romania, Cambodia and Japan. In 2011, these T3A activity reports received a focus of activities only at the association. But the community gets a new and more frequently updated (most probably monthly) news container for publishing and announcing their updates.

I think, it's a good move to bring more attention to the community, the many worldwide activities and also its members.

I've been asked by Ben - TYPO3 Community Manager at T3A - about activities held in Japan. While writing the activity report, I was very happy to see that the TYPO3 Users Group Japan (TUGJ) - and we at snowflake as a part of that - have had a good and active first half-year 2011.

Here an overview of TYPO3 activities in Japan 2011:

English and Chinese corporate website

Last week, I have been traveling to Shanghai for a TYPO3 training. It's for a website project of a newly developed bilingual corporate website, both in English and also Chinese language. The clients web team consists of Swiss staff at the Headquarters in Switzerland and also Chinese marketing communications specialists at their Shanghai office in China. The purpose of my visit was to train the Chinese project team.

Both Swiss and Chinese staff work on the same TYPO3 CMS system, initially installed and managed by the server administrator team at snowflake in Zurich. Certainly a technical highlight of the server setup is its double location in Switzerland and Japan, both servers in sync. Content editors can manage updates on both TYPO3 servers, the changes will be synchronized automatically to both server locations. And European and Asian website visitors will get the best possible performance.

This setup may be also of interest for more clients from Europe, where Asia is already a big and important market having many website visitor access their web presence from Asian countries.

snowflake offers server locations both in Europe (Switzerland) and Asia (Japan).

T3SKI11 and TYPO3 Community Day

This year in February, I co-organized with my colleagues at TUGJ (TYPO3 User Group Japan) the 2nd TYPO3 ski and snowboard event T3SKI11 in Japan.

From the experience of the first event last year, I felt a separate day before the weekend would add a great opportunity to exchange information and knowledge about the TYPO3 CMS. Also for people not able to participate on the socializing weekend, but still interested in knowing more about TYPO3.