[TYPO3-UG US] Call for Volunteers

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

Michelle,

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

> > 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?

I think we could start negotiating with prospective non-profits with
the point that they agree to release any copy and images for the
website provided by them under GPL and take care of this problem from
the very beginning.

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Dimitri Tarassenko