[TYPO3-UG US] TYPO3.us Project

[Chris Duffy]

Hello, All!

I am a full time online course developer for a community college 
district. And part-time web developer for a side business of my own. 
I want to learn typo3 thoroughly so that I can quit my day job. I see 
great potential there. But I am having difficulty learning it. Our 
community college [5 colleges with up to 85,000 students] may have 
used Typo3 instead of Estrada, which cost a LOT of money, had there 
been better documentation. Our office was using Typo3, until forced 
into conformity recently.

I would love to help with the effort here, if I knew more. I am 
struggling to learn as I go. But I am afraid to set too many clients 
up with Typo3, because I cannot afford to pay one of the experts out 
there to help me fix it if I break something. Many thanks to Greg 
Remmington and the other folks who have replied to my questions along the way.

If you need a newbie to tell you if something you've written is 
clear, I'd be happy to help.

Any plans to have a US conference in the near future? Anyone want to 
do a small thing in Houston? I would be willing to help set something 
up if Houston would be a good location?

Regards,
Chris Duffy



At 07:52 PM 9/12/2006, you wrote:
>Michelle Heizer wrote:
> > I apologize for the lack of communication the past few months. My mother
> > recently passed away, which has left me with very little time to volunteer.
> >
> > I am very concerned with certain aspects of the TYPO3.us project and
> > would like to share my observations. This project was meant to be a
> > full-scale attempt to increase TYPO3's visibility in the United States.
> > TYPO3 faces numerous challenges in the US market: location of its
> > development; lack of focus on solutions-based installations; a
> > developer/consultancy-centric community; too few T3 consultancies in the
> > US; concerns over security and open source/gpl in general;
> > outdated/nonexistent documentation and demo site package; confusion over
> > such simple things as template-building; and the general consensus that
> > TYPO3 has too steep a learning curve. This site was meant to address
> > each one of these concerns. Unfortunately, this is not what happened.
> >
>
>It's my experience that when one person takes on most of the
>responsibility, others in the group have no motivation to do anything.
>
>Why don't we create a wiki and place in it an outline of the content
>that is required. When there is enough of the right content, convert it
>into a website.
>
>
>
>
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