[TYPO3-english] Newbie - Some doubts

[Philipp Gampe]

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Becker wrote:

> Those are lots of code  books for those who like to close the book just
> after opening it, Better would be a tutorial section like the wec provides
> it in 1-2-3 step manor with videos and additional links i.e. to those
> "dry" documentations and handbooks.
> 
> The best way learning and understanding TYPO3 is doing something with it.
> working with it and often it starts with "playing" with it.

The getting started aims to do that, although target are more editors then 
developpers.
There are plans to rewrite the modern template building based on the 
indroduction package ... but as always, someone has to do it.

> By the way the WEC Tutorials are very handy as they provide the videos for
> most of their tutorials. With those videos even non english speakers can
> understand lots of what has been talked about in the 1-2-3 step sections
> of the tutorials using Google Translate.

There was a call lately to form a screencast team:
http://news.typo3.org/news/article/teams-screencast-team-needs-members/

So it just needs some active members. T3A will provide the server space on 
T3o (I guess).

> This is our experience with developers in a country where english
> proficiency is bad to worst and no TYPO3 literature beside the one we
> translated meanwhile for internal use and of course the 100% translated
> hints in Thai Backend is available.
> They really appreciate the WEC Tutorial Videos!

There are plans to translate the most basic guides. Some people work on it 
and seems to make some progress. As always a metter of menpower.

> There are so many companies producing Tutorial Videos in German perhaps
> they could think about providing them also here on TER - as most of them
> are meanwhile "OLD" lokking caused by the old backend style but still the
> TS Parts remain the same. It would be a great way of those companies to
> give something back to the community of newbies to TYPO3.

Those cover 4.5 LTS ... so they are recent:
http://typo3.org/documentation/videos/

Best regards
-- 
Philipp Gampe