[Typo3-dev] braindump: TYPO3 foundation

[Jan Wischnat]

Hello Dan, hello list,

In an earlier post, Robert L. asked:

>    - Why would you want a TYPO3company / -foundation / -organisation ?

(many gov) users need an organisation that could collect money from many
(gov) users and forward it to the right agencies/devs/users. This
"moneycollecting -keeping and -forwarding" needs to be transparent! This is
why *i* would want a foundation/-organisation.

Take accessibility for example. German authorities have to have w3c/wai
compliant websites. I work for a german authority. I (and all other
authorities) need tableless layouts / TemplaVoilà / alttexts etc... So
gov-users could collect money and make sure css_styled_imgtext, TemplaVoilà,
dmc_alttext (for 3.6.0) get finished/spomsored quickly.

>    - What role should play such an organisation in the field of
>      agencies, the community, developers etc.? What jobs should be done
>      by the members of such an organisation?

(among many others:)
- collecting money / bookkeeping / accounting, managing trust-funds
(Treuhand)
- informing about development and sponsoring status
- planning TYPO3-Day

>    - Who should be part of such an organisation? (Possibly don't put
>      names here, but rather describe the role of those people)

I could imagine to act like an interface between the TYPO3-Community and
german gov-users. I was contacted quite a few times when it was coming to
co-financing extensions for gov-users  and when it came to solve problems
that gov-users/authorities have in common.
I am offering help.

Thanks and a nice monday

Jan

P.S.: "My" accessible way until TemplaVoilà is finished and documented
http://www.schwangau.de/fileadmin/gov/TYPO3_accessibility_2004.pdf

Preview: http://www.schwangau.de/834.0.html
(this will be finished during june and published in July)