[TYPO3-UG US] TYPO3.us Project

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

Michael,

On 9/13/06, Michael Cannon <michael-typo3 at cannonbose.com> wrote:

> Reuven had mentioned getting together at the CMS conference in Las
> Vegas. As I had been asked to be a sponsor the previous year, I'm
> familiar with the event.

By the way, was it worthwhile and are you planning to go this year?
Where and when is it?


> Do we seem to have more Southern, Northern, Western, or Eastern US
> folks interested in a US conference? LIke the example from the Typo3
> folks in Europe a bigger US city, but cheaper on conference events
> would allow folks to attend possibly with sub-thousand dollar budgets.

Let's make a roll call - I am in Atlanta.

Any city that is cheap and easy to fly to will work - Atl, NY, Boston,
Houston, Dallas/Ft.Worh, Vegas. Right now it seems that East Coast is
more realistic (except maybe Vegas where it is cheaper to fly to).


> Before going to the process of setting up a conference, what's the
> purpose of it?

I'd be willing to share our case studies and development plans - in
case anyone is working in the same direction or did something similar.
For several reasons I see no point in posting those on typo3.org or
typo3.us but I'd be more than willing to talk about them at a
professional developer get-together.

My position is that at this point I am not interested in promoting
TYPO3 in the US market (as I currently believe the global TYPO3 team
cares less and less about ease of adoption  globally as well). I
would, however like to stay in touch with other people and companies
already using TYPO3 professionally, and public maillists are not the
best medium for that.

In a lot of ways I think typo3.us project has failed because there was
not enough personal communication among the participants - even simple
conference calls would have helped to ease some tensions, and a real
get together would have been much more beneficial. This is for those
still interested in typo3.us. (Note: there may have been conference
calls but at least I am not aware of them and have never been
invited).

Just thinking out loud.

-- 
Dimitri Tarassenko