[TYPO3-UG US] Call for Volunteers

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

Michelle,

On 10/15/05, Michelle Heizer <michelle at typo3.us> wrote:

> Support Section on TYPO3.us
> Subgroup 3: "Learning TYPO3"
> A new "Getting Started" Package based on a non-profit business with
> tutorials (Since Flash is available on all platforms, I'm inclined to
> use this one. It's the standard of hosting tutorials as well. Wink also
> makes it easy to use. We could always make videos in addition to
> Flash.), a set of extensions (with a custom extension), a section on the
> forum dedicated to questions about the package. Ultimately, this will be
> refined and offered back to the T3 community
>
> We need designers, coders and people familiar with Wink and Video. This
> group should work with the documentation team to provide written
> documentation as well.

I'd like to participate in this. I can look into technical aspects of
packaging the final results, as well as pretty much any part of the
production process except writing copy and proofreading.

I agree that Wink is the way to go, I did not know something like this
was available as a free product. It certainly would work better. I
thought you meant manually creating flash presentations.

As an idea - what if we take a REAL non-profit we would all feel
comfortable contributing our efforts to and create a website for them?
There are plenty of non-profits that are start-ups or looking to
redesign their website and most of them would gladly accept volunteer
help and cooperate. We could benefit from the fact that we don't have
to come up and invent the copy and that the sample would be as close
to real life as possible. This would also make a great case study.
What do you all think?

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Dimitri Tarassenko