[Typo3] Is TYPO3 used in amarica at all

[Gabriel Anast]

Yeah, a big news article is a great idea, but a better idea is to issue 
regular (as in weekly/monthly digest) press releases that get 
distributed to all the big computer media outlets. The idea of the press 
release is lost on most businesses and almost all Open Source projects. 
(hint: http://www.publicityinsider.com/release.asp) If the Typo3 
Association is interested in press releases, I am a "getting there" Copy 
Writer and can transform any Typo3 news into press releases. I just need 
a Typo3 "news person" and a Typo3 press-release target list. The news 
person (or maybe an "auto-news/announce" list?) needs to get the 
original info together each week: extension updates, core code news, T3 
event news, geek Socialite news and commentary on/from the Who's Who of 
Typo3, posts from other Typo3 people's blogs. Then I can squeeze that 
info into a "fresh," newsy release that a surprising number of outlets 
will pick up and publish.

Thinking... OK, if extension writers could submit an "announce item" 
each time they create a significant extension version that includes "why 
you should use" copy and a "where you can see this in action" link along 
with the regular "what this does," the usual change-log, and maybe a 
short "compared to" for other similar extensions, that would be great. 
T3 events info is readily available, but photos, stories-from, and video 
clips would really be nice. News on new typo3 sites would be important, 
so it would be nice if developers would submit a "new site report" 
including extensions used, and whatnot. Social stuff would be SOOO COOL. 
The only thing we ever hear about Theo de Raadt is that he pissed off a 
large segment of humanity... or about Linus Torvaalds is that he made an 
incisive comment about F/OSS... real social news has *so much more* 
appeal. Marriages, babies, parties, who went were, who bought a new MG 
Mini, who published a book/magazine... it sounds stupid, but it really 
sells product. I mean... how many adds really promote a product? None of 
the good ones do... Good ads either promote beautiful women/men, a 
stable community/family, or a sense of control/power. We need to do that 
with Typo3 news as well.

Another idea is to make a really great blogging extension with about 25 
cool themes that is easy to set up and use (read: a special packaged 
version of tt_news with templates, thanks Rupert... you absolutely 
rock!). If Typo3 became a big blogging platform... well, every blogger 
talks about the platform they use... and blogging is a world-wide 
phenomenon that seems to include A LOT of Canadians & Americans... not 
to mention South Americans, Asians of every nationality, Indians, 
Persians, uh... right. Everybody blogs. Think of how many bloggers 
use(d) Moveable Type... what a dinosaur. That thing made setting up 
Typo3 look like child's play...

--gabe

>Considering history, it looks like TYPO3 had an article in a german 
>magazine (iX) in 2001 and that was the starting point of the love story 
>of TYPO3 with germans. Do you think that an article in a Ziff-Davis 
>publication would give the same effect ?
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>What could be done to help spread the word in USA ?
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