[TYPO3-ect] Official voting for Extension Award 2005

[Elmar Hinz]

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Michelle Heizer schrieb:
> After looking over your reasons for voting, I'm actually confused about
> the purpose of this award. I thought it was to give an award to
> developers who have created high quality extensions and who have given
> above average support and documentation. It shouldn't be based on
> whether you like forums, Rich Text Editors, blogs or wikis (that's what
> proposals are for), but on the basis of the quality of the programming,
> support, number of upgrades, documentation, interoperability between
> other extensions, etc. (BTW, much of this was taken from the email Elmar
> originally sent out.)
> 
> In other words, your vote needs to be based on the skills and the amount
> of time given by the developer(s) and not on your preference of the
> extension. Since the developers have donated a lot of hard work over the
> years to these projects, I think they deserve more consideration.
> 
> Or am I wrong?
> 
> Michelle
> 

Hi Michelle, hi Joey,

I am sure that there are several members of the jury already at the terminal but
still to shy to step onto the stage with their personal estimation. Well, I
still need to test some of the proposals myself.

It is always good if someone has the courage to do the first step. If he does it
in a provoking way, the better. That activates others to answer. In this you
both do a good job. Remember that every member of the jury can still alter his
voting until the deadline.

Well if Joes argumentations is rather personal, I think his voting is completely
OK.

Accessibilty has been a big theme in the last year through german/european laws.
Modifications of css_styled_imagetext made it possible for TYPO3 sites to take
part in the supernational Biene Award: http://www.biene-award.de/award/

Three of the winning sites were already made with TYPO3.

The implementation of cron_cssstyledimgtext into the core will garantee that
TYPO3 is ready to take part in public invitations to tender in future. We can't
estimate this highly enough. It will give TYPO3 a completly new position amoung
competing CMS.

Michells arguments for chc_forum as an outstanding example for extension
coordiantion and documentation count as much. They can stand for the spirit and
idea of the Extension Coordination Team.

I would not bet for any of the candidates at this early state. Let us see, how
the rest of the jury will vote.


Regards

Elmar



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