Talk about TYPO3 at universities at the official TYPO3 Conference in Berlin 2014 from Doris Leonhardt (TU München) and Martin Huber (in2code GmbH). Marketshare of TYPO3 at universities, what needs TYPO3 matches, look into the futures for universities with TYPO3.
2. Technische Universität München
About me:
Martin Huber
# Webdeveloper
# TYPO3 Integrator
# UX lover
# freerider
# proud father
# loves his job at www.in2code.de
3. Technische Universität München
About us:
# 20 experts – one location
# focused on TYPO3
# TYPO3 Platinum Member
# many TYPO3 projects for
universities
4. Technische Universität München
About me:
Doris Leonhardt
# TYPO3 team leader at
Technische Universität München
# web based application development
6. Technische Universität München
TUM. some facts:
# founded 1868 by King Ludwig
II
# 13 departments (faculties)
# 3 Integrative Research Centers
# 6 Corporate Research Centers
# 501 Professors
# 9,869 staff members
# 35,979 Students
33% Female Students
20% Internat‘l Students
# 411 buildings
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TYPO3
Website
TYPO3
(multidomain)
Websites
…..
TYPO3
Websites
TYPO3
(multitree)
Websites
• 332 Satellites
(virt. Server)
• 409 Websites
symlink to the
templates
„TYPO3-
latest“
symlin symlinks
k
to the
latest
core
Virt. Server:
• TYPO3-core
• Templates
• Extensions (as global extensions)
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Our Provider: The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
LRZ (Leibniz Rechenzentrum) provides the
following services to the scientific and academic
communities in Munich:
• general IT services for more than 100,000
university customers in Munich and for the
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
(BAdW),
• a powerful communications infrastructure
called the Munich Scientific Network (Münchner
Wissenschaftsnetz, MWN), and a competence
centre for data communication networks,
• archiving and backup of large amounts of data
on extensive disk and automated magnetic tape
storage,
• a technical and scientific high performance
Supercomputing Centre for all German
universities
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Support for
Internet / Intranet / Extranet
✔ Large scalable rights and role management
✔ Multilanguage support with several options
✔ Usable as multitree system with different domains and access
rights
✔ Accessibility with full markup control (a distribution is also
available)
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Support for
centralized user management
✔ TYPO3 is able to connect directly to an LDAP server
✔ Authentification with Shibboleth
both for backend and frontend user login!
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Cost control
✔ Free software – no licence fees
✔ TYPO3 only needs LAMP
✔ Long Term Support for minimized migration and update costs
✔ Einsatz minimaler Anzahl an Extensions sparen Kosten
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Support for a
great deal of content
✔ Multiple ways to structure content
✔ Ultra flexible menues possible
✔ Many editors with different access rights
✔ Reusability for content
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Support for
permanent availability
✔ TYPO3 has a own Security Team – less hacks means less downtime
✔ Fast core updates for security issues
✔ Caretaker is an explicit and flexible tool for TYPO3 monitoring
✔ Other monitoring tools (e.g. Icinga, Monit) are also supported
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Large knowledge
and support base
✔ Knowlegde sharing between universities due to big market share
✔ Many well known professional agencies in Europe
✔ Big and helpful community
✔ Huge amount of extensions available to extend TYPO3
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Challanges to accept
for universities
✔ Smaller budget – good cost control with TYPO3
✔ More services over web – scalable with extensions
✔ Informationsarchitektur permanent verbessern – CMS oder auch
Neos
✔ Contents should easily maintain by editors
Hi, welcome to our talk about TYPO3 for universities
Hi,
I'm working for in2code, a company located south of munich. Today we'ld like to talk about using typo3 at universities. We would like to give you a short overview of the typo3 marketshare and a look into the future of universities using typo3.
A few words about the company im working for: we are a young team working only with typo3. We have a mix of clients, e.g. small and medium business, but also enterprise companies and of course universities.
Hi i'm working for TU in München. I would like to show you how we use typo3 in a large enviroment with a tiny team.
I'm working in a central departement called IT Service Center an in the service center is a TYPO3 team
Before i continue:
It's good to know, that TYPO3 is forcing UTF-8 now and in the future.
Some facts about the university:
Founded: King Ludwig II was the bavarian king who build Schloss Neuschwanstein
He was very interessted in technology – actually he was a nerd
- his castle were steel constructions with central heating, electric power station (the first in the world), elevators and some more technical stuff.
… now the university hast 13 departements....
Here is a glance at the three campus of the university.
- Campus Weihenstephan (TUM school of life sciences) in the north of munich (with the oldest brewery in the world) – the focus on this campus is research in the life sciences (maybe we should call this campus „science of good life“).
- Campus Garching in the north of munich (constitutes the center of natural science and technology at TUM; it is the largest of all TUM locations)
- Campus Munich City is devided among three important sites: downtown campus, Olympic Park (the olympic park from 1972) and the university hospitals
Some facts about Universities in general and TYPO3 in Germany
Germany has round about 425 universities with about two-point-five million students overall
Let's have a look at how the different content mangement systems are spread over the university landscape.
Here are the results of our own research regarding typo3 at german universities
We selected 180 of the biggest universities because there are more than 90% of all students in germany
As you can see, more than half of these universities are using typo3!
Another interesting point is that if you count the marketshare of the cms positioned on nr. two, three and four the amount is only 15% usage.
For other 15% of the universities we couldn't find out what system they are using.
As you can see, TYPO3 is spread in the university landscape.
Now lets have a look at the use case of typo3 at TUM.
A few words about our service we provide for departments, chairs and research center:
- we started with this service about five years ago with one person show.
- the aim was to support the different organisation units with their websites – providing and administrating a website and their job should be taking care of content.
- the first try was with Joomla! But we realized very soon, that this CMS is not the right system to handle the requirements
- the next try was TYPO3 and we still use TYPO3 now
- in order to be able to handle an unknown amount of websites we decided to implement a scaleable solution which we call Satellite-System
On the left is a virtual machine (LAMP) with the TYPO3 Core, the templates and all the stuff we need for the website layout and the TYPO3 extensions we offer (as global extensions).
On the right: we have virtual machines providing a lot of TYPO3 websites as single sites, multidomain sites and multitree sites – these are the so called „satellites“.
With this setup we are able to generate a complete new website within 30 minutes which meets the TUM requirements, regarding for e.g. corporate design
Any layout changes, extension or core-updates can be handled by working on only one machine and on one fileset.
Until now we have round about 400 websites on more than 330 TYPO3 installations handled with this system. And only with 3 people in the T3 team.
But: i didn't say anything about the virtual machines and the administration of these machines.
We have a provider for all our websites, which is the LRZ – the university has no own computing centre.
The LRZ is the computing centre for all universities in Munich (there are three of them).
They are supporting us by providing the virtual machines and doing all the work around the servers. Backup, database, system updates, server security
Überleitung:
What are the needs of the universities regarding TYPO3?
Universities have various requirements.
Lets see for what needs TYPO3 is the best choice.
Universities would like to publish websites for internet, intranet and extranet
Regarding the different usage universities needs a large scaleable rights and role management system. They need to provide many sites with many editors and different access rights. Typo3 is able to provide this with ACL, Permissions and Visibility by configuration. All these settings could be combined and used in different cases on different parts of the pagetree.
Also important is the support for multilanguage websites. Due to the high flexiblity of TYPO3, the universities are able to meet their own needs. Different languages could be solved with an multi- or one-tree system. In addition settings for default language and the language overlays gives more possibilities find the perfect solution.The advantage of this continous concept is that it works for different elements. For pages, content elements and also Extensions.
You can configure a TYPO3 website as an multiple tree website, as an single tree website, multiple domain website and also combining these possibilities. In addition to that, you can also set up different access rights.
Accessibility is an important requirement! With TYPO3 you are able to control the full HTML markup. Also many extensions are supporting accessibility. German universities have to follow the rules of accessibility by law. Accesibility is a voluntary extra task for agencies and also for the editors. Editors should be trained to do this right.
Universities often use more than one system!
T3 uses a authentification service, which can be extend with own services. With this service it is possible to use a centralized user management, it is possible to connect to an LDAP server or authentificate the users with Shibboleth.
For those who do not know Shibboleth: its an open-source project that provides Single Sing-on
In our opinion it would be usefull that typo3 serves an API, for example REST, which helps third-party-applications to integrate TYPO3 services.
capabilities and allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner – source: shibboleth.net).
It's possible to use these authentification methods for the editors, called Backend-users, but also for the website-users, called frontend users.
Universities – as well as companies - would like to have an overview over their budget.
One advantage of TYPO3 is, that is for free. You don't have to pay any licence fees. TYPO3 is open source software.
TYPO3 does not need expensive hosting! A simple LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) server is enough.
Another advantage for cost control is the Long Term Support Version. Over a period of three years you have a low cost support regarding TYPO3: only little updates and no migrations to newer versions
To safe costs you only should use the extensions you're REALLY need. Extensions are useful only to show or safe structured content. And: take care on quality of the used extensions. Some hints to detect good extensions: modern technology used (eg Fluid/Extbase), an existing manual, also an extension-icon (shows love from the programmer), check Code-Quality from TER, an existing Forge-Page and for sure the number of downloads
Content is king! And universities have in general a lot of content!
TYPO3 gives the possibility to structure content in different ways. E.g. as normal content elements or data sets to publish these contents on more sites with different settings or layouts.
TYPO3 makes it possible to publish content very flexible: with start- and/or endtime; visible for certain users or groups and different layouts;
Even regarding the menus, TYPO3 is a very flexible system and makes it very interesting for universities.
One of the most important features is security! Not only for administrators or developers, also for editors and of course for the website users!
As far as I know TYPO3 is the only cms with an own security team! The security team is taking care for the core of TYPO3 CMS but also for third-party extensions in the repository.
A helpful tool is Caretaker. This is a tool espacially for monitoring TYPO3 and it's features.
Based on the architecture of TYPO3 it's also possible to use other well known monitoring tools like Icinga or Monit.
The high marketshare of TYPO3 at universities makes it possible to share knowlegde. Universities can work together and learn from each other. For example the new powermail university package is a project of 9 universities who initiated and sponsored some additional features.
External help is also provided. There are many well known professionals in Europe already working with universities.
Another possibility to get help and support is the big community behind TYPO3. There are many events and user groups everyone could join.
Also extending TYPO3 is easy: many extensions for different usages are available for free in the typo3-repository at www.typo3.org
So, lets take a look into the future of universities.
Requirements for universities are changing. Lets take a look at the challanges for universities.
Universities may reduce the budget for the web – a good cost control with typo3 could be helpful
Today many services have to be webbased – TYPO3 offers the possibility to create own extensions for a bunch of requirements. So TYPO3 is a very interesting system for universities. For example the Technical University in Munich has own TYPO3 Extensions connecting and grabbing data from other non-TYPO3 systems.
With all of these features and possibilities of TYPO3 universities could get more students as a result of providing better content and services.