[TYPO3-english] THEMES - the tool for Designers, Template Builders and Content Creators

[JoH asenau]

Am 13.06.2013 12:32, schrieb Andreas Becker:

I think that many will agree that having packages and themes will help 
improving the user base of TYPO3 CMS. So I won't comment on that part.

Nevertheless there is one thing I would like to avoid: Replacing one 
"golden hammer" with another. That said, I still highly appreciate what 
is going on with fluidcontent, themes and gridelements. But please don't 
make the same mistakes that have been done when TemplaVoila was 
introduced as "futuristic template building", since this will raise 
expectations that we might not be able to fulfill later on.

Now lets get to the facts:

> TVFW started to build up a Skin Repository in TER with standardized
> exchangable skins. In front of customers it is possible to flip nice
> designs and the content flips into the right position. As TemplaVoila is
> unfortunately an dead end in its current state, the question for
> alternatives came up. Claus Due build Fedext and Joe Gridelements. The one
> is storing the Backend data in the Backend which makes it a bit more
> difficult to exchange it,

Gridelements can do both, save structures to the DB as well as put them 
into TSconfig, so it's up to the user to decide about the way to go.

> It has all those extended features of Claus Dues Fluid Content and Fluid
> Pages as it is build on it and it can work with grid elements soon.

This is something that I have discussed with Kay already and we will be 
working on that task soon. Currently my major task is to provide the 
extended manuals and the tutorial DVD that we promised our sponsors 
during the crowd funding phase of Gridelements.

They will already make use of some nice examples for a first so called 
"Grid Package" based on twitter bootstrap, so people will get a notion 
of the things to come when the official "Grid Packages" will be released.

We will have a workshop called "Kickstarting Grid Packages" at the 
Developer Days in Hamburg. So I expect a first roadmap and some concepts 
for the packages to be available in July.

Since the last crowd funding campaign was quite successful, we are 
planning to have another one especially for "Grid Packages". Kay 
Strobach and Arno Dudek already joined our team on startnext and we are 
going to start the new project soon.

It will collect money for certain packages and each sponsoring will 
count as a vote for the package it is related to. This way we will 
produce only those packages that people really want to use. People can 
do requests for packages as well.

Each of these will just be the base for the upcoming themes that will 
build upon it.
So the goal is i.e. to get a standardized twitter bootstrap package, 
that will enable you to make use of almost any theme based on that 
framework. Same of course for other frameworks, but the people will 
decide which one we will create.

The collected money will then be used to have developers and designers 
focused on the packages they decide to work on.

A rough timeline that I already discussed with Kay is connected to the 
release of TYPO3 CMS 6.2. LTS in October. We expect to release those 
theme packages until the end of 2013 as well, so the can be a reliable 
base for TYPO3 CMS beginners for the following 3 years.

Let's do it!

Cheers

Joey

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