[TYPO3-dev] [TYPO3] Will Bill Gates sponsor TYPO3 microformats (CRS) development?

[Bas van de Wiel]

LOL April fool's day anyone?

Elmar Hinz wrote:

>Hello typoniks,
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>great things are going on between traditional software commerce and open source. During MIX06 in March
>in Las Vags Bill Gates invited Tim O'Reilly on stage to have a conversation.
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>http://microformats.org/blog/2006/03/20/bill-gates-at-mix06-we-need-microformats/
>http://mix06.com/
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>While discussing "Web 2.0", Tim just said:
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>    …the semantic web is really taking off with the use of microformats.
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>And in response, Bill said:
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>    We need microformats and to get people to agree on them. It is going to bootstrap exchanging data on the Web…
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>    …we need them for things like contact cards, events, directions…
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>ECT (Extension Coordination Team) and the CRG (Content Rendering Group) are doing a joint effort at the moment
>to get some new out-of-the-box templates into TYPO3. For this purpose some standard id and class schemes for the
>HTML output have to be drawn up. Content Rendering Schemes (CRS) are a kind of TYPO3 specific implementation
>of microformats.
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>http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Content_Rendering_Schemes
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>Still not official but there are hints that Bill and Tim have agreed to support TYPO3 CRS development as a first
>test case for the implementation of microformats. Also due to the fact that the term CRS disguises the term
>MICROformats during experimental phase.
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>Rumours abound that Bill visits Kasper today in Denmark to exchange ideas while the go fishing in common.
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>Regards
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>Elmar
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