[TYPO3-UG US] Call for Volunteers

[Michelle Heizer]

Hi Dimitri,

On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 20:43 -0400, Dimitri Tarassenko wrote:
> 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.

Wonderful! I will add you as the contact for this project and also email
Zach about coding a custom extension. He is also very experienced in
CSS/XHTML. I'll also work on getting some writers to help out.

> 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.

I guess I took for granted that everyone has heard of Wink. :) It's a
great tool and pretty simple to use.

> 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?

I love this idea, but I have a few concerns. We have to be careful with
using someone else's logo and copy in the installation, demos, etc. I
want to avoid any copyright problems, especially when we redistribute
the package. One idea might be to build the template from the ground up
with a fake logo, release it under GPL, find a nonprofit that would like
to use it and then put their site into it with their logo and colors. If
we document the process, it might show others how to apply the new
template to their own site and we'd have a great case study. 

What do you think?

Michelle