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Recap Web Camp Venlo 2024

I attend this year's Web Camp Venlo. And usually I don't publish recaps any more. But this year felt special to me and there was so much going on that I need to write that down and share the experience with everyone out there.

History


The Web Camp Venlo started as a TYPO3 Camp back in 2015. I still have the T-shirt, and it was my very first international TYPO3 Camp. I'm living next to the Dutch border and wanted to get in touch with none German people of the community. I learned friendly people from the Netherlands and other countries and even sponsored the camp in the beginning, so it could happen.

But things go on and the camp opened by changing its name, now known as “Web Camp Venlo” instead of “TYPO3 Camp Venlo”.

Humans


Why covering the history you might ask? Well, because the shift from TYPO3 to Web feels very much like what this year's camp felt to me. It was not about TYPO3 or anything specific. It was about something bigger, it was about humans.

The Camp started with the Keynote “Keynote - The human touch in software development” but Carlijn Compen from Canon, the printer company. There was a talk “Defend FOSS: From innovation to world-wide positive change” by Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire and Mathias Bolt Lesniak. As well as a Talk “Domain-Driven Design: The Basics” by Stefan Koopmanschap. I also attended “The latest computer virus is called burnout and only motivated people can get it” from Jeroen Baten and “Community collaboration” by Jaap Van Otterdijk as well as his Talk “Documentation”.

All these talks have one thing in common, they are about humans, about community and therefore social aspects. I am a Backend software developer working with TYPO3 all day, building websites and allowing editors to publish content to the world. I am building websites for visitors and do so by using a free open source software content management system where humans can be creative. They can share there thoughts, just like I am doing right now typing these words into my TYPO3 installation, serving the content to you as a reader.

There were also workshops provided a day before the usual camp days. I attend the workshop “Advanced Application Architecture” by Matthias Noback. Which again was about humans. The technical part as about encapsulation of domain and system architecture. But the concepts behind that were about humans as well.

It is all about Humans, about interactions. Domain Driven Design (=DDD) is about reflecting human beings and their processes and interactions within software code. We write documentation for humans in order to understand and use something, like a CMS, build by humans.

Some might be afraid of meeting people with well known names, but they are all human. They all have been where starters are today. They attend events like this because they share the same passion. We all want to exchange knowledge. We want to become better and gain new ideas and learn from each other.

Also, the camp is organized by a small group of nice people. There are human speakers sharing their ideas, opinions, and experiences to other humans.

Everything we do influences other humans.

I want to thank the Organizers of the camp, the speakers, the sponsors and all the attendees for making events like this web camp happen. I had a great time, as every other year in the past. And I'm looking forward to joining the camp next year.

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