Innovation is mistakenly seem as one shot that changes the way people do things. But what happens after the initial change? We will explain how we continued to thrive with our Apache Solr for TYPO3 Integration. We will look at the inner workings and at the numbers behind this great TYPO3 extension.

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Apache Solr for TYPO3:
How continuous cooperative innovation can pay off

2. About me
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Timo Hund
32 years old
@TYPO3 since: 2003
@Apache Solr since: 2009
@dkd since: 2015
Email: timo.hund@dkd.de
Xing: https://www.xing.com/profile/Timo_Hund2
Github: https://github.com/timohund

3. Our team
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Olivier
Dobberkau
Timo
Hund
Ingo
Renner
Markus
Friedrich
Thomas
Janke
Development Development Development Management Management

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Teamwork@dkd

5. Make
Happen
Innovation

6. 6

7. MakeBuilding an ecosystem
Happen
Our daily mission
InnovationOur vision
Agenda

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Building an ecosystem
From idea to an ecosystem

9. How we started
Need for a search in TYPO3 with…
- Support of synonyms
Flugbegleiter <-> Stewardess
- Facetting
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Successful project
Why not share it?

10. Joining forces
Share costs
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Community
Bugfixes, features,
support, …
dkd - Solr Team
Roadmap, T3 compatibility,
bugfixes,
new features, R&D, community
management
Partner
Give money, feedback,
bug reports,
feature requests
Customers
Run & develop project
with our partners
Why?
One search solution instead of many
Complex field

11. What happened since then (EXT:solr)
Over 300 partners (35 in EB 2016)
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28 releases (2,630 code changes)
7 years / 9 person years spent
Development costs 0.5 Mio € (Cocomo method)
25,000 downloads (TER + Packagist)
Powerful search components for TYPO3

12. Everybody can invest
something (e.g. time, money,
know how, motivation)
Joined forces can achieve more
Make
Happen
Innovation

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Our daily mission
What we do for the success of „Apache Solr For TYPO3“

14. We are successful when…
Our partners and we are happy
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We make TYPO3 more attractive
We are in time
We are in budget
We win new partners
We continually innovate search in TYPO3

15. … and what we do to achieve this
Communicate
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Perfection < Pragmatism > Chaos
Focus
Prioritize
Release early & often
Avoid waste

16. Roadmap & release schedule
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Q1/16 Q2/16 Q3/16 Q4/16
Partner survey & roadmap draft
Release / retro / re-priorization
7.6 LTS
EXT:solr 4.0 EXT:solr 5.0
EXT:solrfluid 1.1
Solrfluid
EXT:solr 5.1
EXT:solrfluid 1.2
Codesprint
changes
EXT:solr 6.0
EXT:solrfluid 1.3
Apache Solr 6
& Docker

17. What we achieved last year
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Survey topic Importance Status
Fluid templating 77 % Done
Improved documentation 73 % Done
File indexing with EXT:solrfal 71 % Done
6.2 compatibility 55 % Incremental backports
EXT:solrfal avoid duplicates 54 % Projected 12/2016
Optimize FE performance 47 % Done
Latest Apache Solr version 46 % Projected 12/2016

18. Innovation in action
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TYPO3 as content repository
web-vision GmbH
EXT:solr & solrfluid
DYWIDAG-Systems International

19. TYPO3 as content repository
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TYPO3 Backend
News
Projects
Other
No programming for new filters and page types
TYPO3 Frontend
solrfluid
Re-useable components (atomic design & fluid)
Less maintenance (less extensions)
Fast response
Apache Solr

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23. Can be small or big
Needs responsibility taker
and the goal to deliver
Make
Happen
Innovation

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Our vision
How we see the future of search in TYPO3

25. Solrfluid 2.0
Use as default
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M
Better suggest
GEO search
Grouping

26. TYPO3 search API
Core search API
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XL
TCA2anything (Solr / Elastic / CMIS / …)
Backend
Frontend

27. Optimize search quality
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Google, FB & co form search expectations
We should get closer
e.g. by using:
User profile
User behaviour
We are
somewhere
hereXXL

28. Needs the freedom
to dream
Needs an open culture
Make
Happen
Innovation

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Let’s make it happen
How to get involved?

30. How to get involved?
Join our EB program
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Give your developers time to contribute
to our project
Share and discuss your ideas on slack, mail, …
Support the development with
money, code, motivation
Invite your developers to a codesprint

31. Questions & Answers
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32. Thanks!
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Our Partners in 2016:
Arrabiata Solutions GmbH, Bank CIC AG, Bitmotion GmbH, Citkomm services GmbH, CS2 AG,
Cosmoblonde GmbH, Daniz online markting, datenwerk innovationsagentur gmbh, die_schnittsteller GmbH, E-magineurs,
Fernando Hernáez Lopez, Future Connection AG, Gernot Leitgab, Hirsch & Wölfl GmbH, hs-digital GmbH, IHK Neubrandenburg,
L.N. Schaffrath DigitalMedien GmbH, Libéo, mehrwert intermediale kommunikation GmbH, netlogix GmbH & Co. KG,
Pixel Ink, Pixelpark AG Köln, pixolith GmbH & Co. KG, Q3i GmbH & Co. KG, portrino GmbH, RUAG Corporate Services AG, ST3 Elkartea,
Star Finanz-Software Entwicklung und Vertriebs GmbH, Stefan Galinski Interndienstleistungen, Systime A/S, SYZYGY Deutschland GmbH,
web-vision GmbH, websedit AG - Internetagentur, Webstobe GmbH, werkraum gmbh, WIND Internet
All previous partners can be found here: http://www.typo3-solr.com/en/sponsors/our-sponsors/
Our Contributors:
Dmitry Dulepov, Sascha Egerer, Markus Friedrich, Thomas, Hohn, Markus Kobligk, Peter Kraume, Sascha Löffler, Patrick Oberdorf,
Thomas Scholze, Florian Seirer, Frans Saris, Daniel Siepmann, Gerald Spreer, Hendrik Nadler, Frank Nägler, Sascha Novak,
Ingo Pfennigstorf, Ingo Renner, Steffen Ritter, Marc Bastian Heinrichs, Timo Hund, Mickael Vanclooster,
Credits:
flaticon.com: Gregor Cresnar, Retinaicons, Freepik, Vectors Market, Dave Gandy
flickr.com: Moyan Brenn, Nhidang

33. We are hiring!
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34. Contact me!
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Email: timo.hund@dkd.de
GitHub: https://github.com/timohund
Xing: https://www.xing.com/profile/Timo_Hund2
TYPO3 Solr: http://www.typo3-solr.com
dkd: http://www.dkd.de/