Guidelines for News Articles
Foreword
A lot of the news on the TYPO3 websites is community-created. This helps create a homebase for our community. The content should be neutral and offer reliable and useful information.
We accept articles about TYPO3 CMS, the TYPO3 community, web technologies, Best practices for web development and other open source-related topics. Your content must hold certain licenses to be publishable on the site.
Guidelines
Attention
These guidelines may be updated at any time and without prior notice.
Language
The main language of the TYPO3 community is English. Therefore all articles must be written in English. Translations of an article to additional languages can be offered by the author.
Audience
The readers of our websites are technical and non-technical. Many are users of TYPO3 CMS and part of the TYPO3 community or interested in getting a part of it. They come from many different backgrounds and fields of study. We welcome all to learn more about TYPO3.
Images
Please take care that you use only license free images. Our recommendation is Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0. In any case, we need to know the source / author and concrete license type. This information has to be included in the metadata of this file. If you are depicting people within your pictures, you have to have the consent of depicted people.
Advertising
Generally, it is not permitted to place any advertisements in your article. The content should deliver technical information, best practices, release information, community news.
External Links
Links to external sites are permitted, if they create a concrete benefit for the reader. Links to companies are permitted as an acknowledgement for contribution to the product development or contribution to an official team.
Other cases may count as advertising and are not permitted.
Follow the code of conduct
Authors must respect the values of the TYPO3 community. Details see typo3.org/coc.
Respecting trademarks, copyrights, and project names
The use of trademarks or other projects as the sole or initial term is prohibited unless proof of legal ownership/representation can be confirmed.
Enforcing these guidelines
Our intent is to enforce these guidelines with as much fairness as humanly possible. However, we reserve the right to:
- Update these guidelines at any time.
- Disable or remove any article from the site, even for reasons not explicitly covered by the guidelines.
- Make changes to an article, without the author's consent, particularly in the interest of public safety.