Last Friday and Saturday the first Neos Conference took place. It was as in previous years at the inspiring conference, an awesome one with many good talks, interesting discussions and good food.
The venue was the Hotel Gastwerk in Hamburg, the former gas factory linked from the design to the last year’s venue of the Inspiring Conference and offered the perfect setting for this great event.
The Talks
Let’s get to the talks: These were once again high-profile. There was something for the beginners, as well as for advanced participants. Also the Lightning Talks on the second day were a great format with short but informative presentations.
There was even, for all who could not attend, a live stream on Youtube.
Talks on the first day
Welcome Keynote
The conference was opened by the founder of the open source project Neos, Robert Lemke. Tobias Gruber also had a brief appearance in the keynote.
A round trip through your presentation layer in Neos
This talk by Dmitri Pisarev and Dominique Feyer focuses, as the title suggests, the presentation layer of Neos. Why it is useful to have clear templates and to relocate the logic from Fluid templates to Fusion.
Integrating with 3rd parties
Bastian Waidelich talked in his presentation about the integration of Neos with 3rd parties and shows possibilities and concepts.
A practical introduction to event sourcing and CQRS
A major topic of the conference was event sourcing and CQRS. Robert Lemke presented an introduction to this interesting topic.
Neos & Flow Showcases
In the slot for the Neos & Flow Showcases three Neos and flow projects were presented. The first project, a Neos online shop (https://www.roemerturm.de/), was presented by Christian Müller. The second showcase, the t3n universe (Flow & Neos projects) was presented by Johannes Steu. And the last but not least project was presented by Matthis Radke, the “1&1 Partnerportal”.
» Youtube-Video (Neos as a Shop)
» Youtube-Video (Two stack CMS - Neos in an enterprise setup)
» Youtube-Video (Neos and Flow with Event Sourcing)
Atomic.Fusion and a living style guide for Neos
Martin Ficzel and Wilhelm Behncke presented their idea of Atomic. Fusion and how a living style guide is created, almost by itself.
Search as main navigation
Can a search replace the main navigation? Daniel Lienert and Sebastian Helzle say yes and show how to implement it with Neos.
Keynote - Messages over Structure
The last talk of the first day was held by Mathias Verraes. It was again about the subject of event sourcing and CQRS. His recommendation in the planning of projects is that one should rather talk about messages rather than structures.
Talks on the second day
Keynote - Behind the Scenes of Maintaining an Open Source Project
The second conference day began with a keynote by Jordi Boggiano, author of Composer and packagist.org. He talked about the maintenance of open source projects, the positive as well as the negative aspects came into the language.
No more “Lorem Ipsum” - wireframing and content first with Neos CMS
David Spiola presented his solution for wireframing projects directly in Neos. He showed, how he designed new projects directly with the customer in Neos with real content.
The Neos React UI
There are great times on Neos, the development of the new backend React UI is going into the hot phase. Sebastian Kurfürst presented the status quo and the first beta was released.
Lightning Talks
In contrast to the longer talks, there was a session with Lightning Talks. 7 talks with 5 minutes each. There were kept short but nevertheless very interesting presentations.
» Slides (Asset Meta Data Management With Neos CMS)
Passcreator: our journey to the cloud
Is flow scalable and how can you do it? David Sporer showed his solution for Passcreator based on docker.
Neos and SEO
Neos and SEO is not a contradiction, Sebastian Helzle presented what possibilities of SEO optimization with Neos exist.
From the Labs
The last talk went into the depths again. Christopher Hlubek and Bernhard Schmitt once again presented the benefits of event sourcing and CQRS and what that could mean for the future of Neos.
The Neos Award
For the second time in history, the Neos Award was presented.
The winners in the category “Excellence” are:
- H-Hotels.com (https://www.h-hotels.com/)
- Swisscom Mailer (https://www.swisscom.ch)
- Silberregion Karwendel (https://www.silberregion-karwendel.com/)
The bronze winner:
Meister (https://www.meister.com/)
The silver winner:
Passcreator (http://www.passcreator.com/)
The gold winner:
1&1 Partner-Portal
And the community friendly ghost award went to Dmitri Pisarev.
Conclusion
My personal conclusion is extremely positive. It was a great Neos conference, it’s a great community and a great project. I hope it goes in the future Neos continue steeply uphill and I am looking forward to the next Neos event.