[TYPO3-UG US] Status of TYPO3.us

[Alex Heizer]

I guess the point is, with the Learning TYPO3 project, to help new users 
learn the foundation of how T3 works: what TS is and how it works, how 
to organize a site, using templates, extensions, and all that.

Not everything that should be covered will be exciting and popular, and 
not all the exciting stuff will be covered. But the entire project needs 
to be targeted directly at the new user to help them learn a solid 
foundation of TYPO3. That's all, just learn from the ground up, and 
learn the time-saving features after you know the basics. So, 
conceptually, if a feature is basic to TYPO3, and T3 wouldn't be T3 
without it, then it belongs. If you can remove it and T3 is still T3 and 
your site is up and running, then it doesn't belong in the foundation. 
If it is cool and fun, and is one of the interesting or different things 
that makes TYPO3 stand out above everyone else, then it belongs in the 
project, but in a place that can highlight why it makes T3 cooler than 
the other CMSes out there. TV is cool, so it needs to be in there. But 
what it does is make it easier for someone to manipulate the fundamental 
TS that TYPO3 needs anyway. Let's put it where we can highlight it the 
best: once you know how T3 works, TV seems so much cooler that you can 
do what it does so easily, compared to the traditional way.

There's a lot of cool stuff that T3 can do, but most of it is actually 
pretty advanced, and to us, who know the fundamentals it's really cool! 
But to a new user who is still trying to grasp what 'styles.content.get' 
means, all that cool stuff is totally lost and gets in the way of 
understanding. All the cool stuff deserves to always be "cool stuff" 
instead of just something that gets in the way.

:)

Alex