[TYPO3-dam] Any new news?

[Fabien Udriot]

Thank's for the news.

Just before you post your message, I wanted to ask in the mailing list 
about René's news. As we could not read anything about him since March, 
I was wondering if he had health problems or something worse.

With your info, I am glad to hear he's still alive. :)

Thank you René for what you did for us :)


Ekkehard Gümbel a écrit :
> Michiel Roos [netcreators] schrieb:
>> Andreas Balzer wrote:
>>> Fabien Udriot schrieb:
>>>> I am also waiting for some news...
>>>>
>>>> - UTF-8 support in the "filename", that's an issue I met too.
>>>
>>> Is there anyone who might be able to patch some bugs until we get any 
>>> news from the official extension author?
>>>
>>> Andreas
>> Oh wait . . .
>>
>> Here's some news for you: http://typo3lab.colorcube.de/Home.55.0.html
>>
>> Is it time for a fork? Or a project manager with more time?
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> we have had the present discussion several times and came to different 
> conclusions, that I would like to inform you about:
> 
> a) We definitely need better maintenance and in this project (and this 
> includes enhancements, too). Agreed.
> 
> b) We believe that it is important to keep René involved, since it is 
> his "baby" and he still has veery amazing knowledge in TYPO3 and 
> surroundings. We have to respect the fact that for personal reasons, his 
> availabilty is currently rather low, and that he is not going to do too 
> much voluntary work on the project since he did really much in the past 
> which didn't "pay off" (not only in the monetary meaning).
> 
> c) So what we did is try to figure out a "DAM Support Model" that is 
> aimed to
> - ensure a good and permanent maintenance
> - boost the DAM support in core + 3rd-party extensions
>   (e.g. by good support for ext developers)
> - bring DAM to the future (interaction with TYPO3 v5)
> - make sure that extra features people want (and are willing to pay for)
>   get implemented short-term (if it makes any sense)
> 
> d) This model has to include a second developer who is getting educated 
> on DAM-internals by René, and who is able to smoothly co-operate with 
> him. And can unburden René from the every-day (or at least -week) 
> maintenance and communication work, including those times where René is 
> not available at all.
> This second maintainer is (as you may have noticed) Sven Gähle.
> 
> e) Both René and Sven will receive a monthly funding (though on 
> different levels) that allows them to follow the targets named above. 
> They will be able work together at Sven's office (close to René), or 
> other places.
> 
> f) The money required needs to be collected from a number of interested 
> companies, on a low but regular base. By now, the TYPO3partner member 
> companies plus a small number of others have agreed to chip in, but to 
> really move forward we will have to double that number.
> 
> g) The whole thing has already started but is basically still in 
> education mode, and also not with "full power" since we do not yet have 
> the full funding.
> 
> h) Of course, the entire concept is non-commercial, i.e. all money goes 
> 100% to the developers, while the extra fame goes to all of the sponsors.
> 
> These things have first been announced at the CeBIT, see 
> http://www.typo3partner.net/news/newsdetails/artikel/dam-support-by-typo3partner.html 
> - but a real presentation of the concept to the public has yet to come. 
> An information on typo3.org will be ready by the end of this month. 
> (sorry I know we're slow here, but there are internal questions that 
> need to be sorted out.) Whoever likes to get in touch quicker, for now 
> please use http://www.typo3partner.net/kontakt.html. (For those who 
> wonder: The DAM Support Model will be a _non_-TYPO3partner project from 
> the moment it goes public.)
> 
> 
> I strongly believe this is very good news - at least the concept was 
> designed with the best intentions by companies that are as much 
> interested in (and have been suffering from) DAM as probably all of you :-)
> 
> greets
> /Ekki
> 
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