[TYPO3-UG US] IT Manager's Journal | Dana Farber turns to TYPO3 and Enomaly for cancer-research site

[Jennifer Lynch]

I hope that typo3 never goes in the direction of having "official sponsors".
The nature of open source is that anyone who contributes something
worthwhile to the system, who adds to the depository of extensions, creates
useful services to promote typo3, utilizes it to accomplish good work is
"sponsoring the system".  The open source community is one place that offers
us all a paradigm that isn't legislated by a commercial, narrowly focused
capitalist "me first" view of the world.  And the weird thing is, the
benefits of working from the open source viewpoint are just as solid-- I
think more so-- than those of grubbing along in a competitive, exploitative
let's all be CEOs mode.  It's a communal, cooperative venture where the
rewards are tied to merit and work, not to playing the angles in a
competitive winner take all game.

Do the work, the money comes.  Making it a Monopoly game just limits the
playing field to your own living room.  There's a way more interesting world
out there when you look up from the board.

Jennifer

On 3/6/06 12:27 AM, "Michelle Heizer" <michelle at typo3.us> wrote:

> TYPO3 does not have official sponsors or anything like that and I don't
> foresee this changing anytime soon.
> 
> I don't think people need to call themselves "official sponsors" to do
> the work you describe below. Many volunteers have been doing those
> things for years without the need for any titles. Our reward should be
> getting to use TYPO3 for free. :)
> 
> Michelle
> 
> On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 22:17 -0800, Gregory Remington wrote:
>> Michelle Heizer wrote:
>>> There's no need to take a vote, Greg. There are just no official
>>> sponsors of TYPO3 for any country.
>>> 
>>> Michelle
>> 
>> So then how does one become an "official" sponsor? Case studies?
>> Successful marketing for TYPO3 in general? Donations? Fund raising for
>> core development and the Association? A combination of all the above?
>> 
>> Or maybe "sponsor" is not the word we're looking for ;)
>> 
>> Greg
> 
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