[TYPO3-UG US] TYPO3.us Project

[Michael Cannon]

Dimitri,

I didn't attend the Las Vegas CMS conference, sponsoring an event is  
big cash, $ 28K. Maybe next year, it might be a possibility.

I'm in Portsmouth, New Hampshire which is an hour north of Boston. I  
can readily travel in the US and out. Though right now my passport in  
the hands of Russian Embassy awaiting a new visa.

I'm on the lookout to establish more professional Typo3 relationships  
in the US, Canada, and Latin American markets. I've got some good  
size projects and retainers along with the typical smaller ones that  
most folks are used to. I keep a team of 12 busy and am looking to  
bring a couple more folks onto the sales team as the development team  
gets better situated. With our distributed sales, network,  
development, and support teams, we run off of a customer and project  
management system from midnight till 8 PM Eastern.

Cannonbose seems to be doing a good chunk of serious heavy lifting  
projects instead of the typical small business websites. I've got  
clients pushing the limits with online magazines, business process  
markets, sponsor systems, Hollywood marketing and advertising, CRM,  
geo-location content delivery, and upcoming ERP. As such, Cannonbose  
seems to fit best into behind the scenes work for higher profile  
marketing agencies that can sale away while not having to stress  
about delivering what they sold.

On the server side, I'm bringing a new CPU box with a disk array  
online with 1.2 TB of disk space via RAID 50 and hot spares. Data  
will be quite well protected before even needing to touch the rolling  
7-day backups. With this new monster box, one of my current boxes  
with become a fall-back server thereby though not a true fail-over  
soution. Through the new network, I've got total redundancy on  
network, servers, data, DNS, email, database etc.

Typo3 is open source software and when we don't like something, we  
can change it. As such, we can make the system better suited to our  
American market. The idea of a true quick install system such as the  
wireframe concept that Reuven introduced on Enomaly.net comes to mind.

I think the idea of an American Typo3 coalition is solid. If nothing  
else, it could just be a group of folks that gather around a video  
conference with beer in hand and gripe, groan, suggest, tease,  
illuminate, and generally have fun while getting some occasional  
tidbits of work and passing of professional advice along.

I know that I offered to help with Typo3.us marketing regarding  
customer contacting, presentation, and talking it up. Then as  
Cannonbose started growing, I backed out. During this time, I've also  
realized that if we don't try, really work together, and make a  
concerted effort for helping each other, we're all not going to be as  
good as what we could be.

Going further, there's no reason why the work that's been suggested  
for Typo3.us can't be shared with Typo3.com. These efforts on  
Typo3.us would help all of us and ultimately our future clients. I  
fully realize the need for a single formal organization to fall under  
and then informal groups to help socialize folks.

With that said, I'm open to leading the informal side of the American  
Typo3 Association as a mouth, cajoler, and general happy, go lucky guy.

Michael

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Michael Cannon
President of Cannonbose, LLC
Tel    : +1 (603) 294-4418         Fax : +1 (802) 609-2776