[TYPO3-UG US] What should support.typo3.org do?

[Ron Hall]

Hi Chris,

In regards to your question on how other groups got started, I can  
only speak for the Dallas group, but it started with three of us that  
knew each other and were involved in TYPO3 development. We have never  
made the meetings fancy. We just got together, discussed anything on  
our mind regarding TYPO3 and helped each other with issues and  
challenges we had pending.

As we met, others started making contact with us to the point where we  
have about 8 regulars at the meetings and probably that many more that  
come now and again. After the first of the year we will probably start  
taking a portion of each meeting and going through one topic in TSref  
to give a little more structure. We happen to have some folks who do  
very good work in TYPO3 so if we need to know something usually  
someone has experience with the issue. We have one meeting a month but  
have not tried to make the support or group involvement any more  
extensive than that. I am sensitive the the members time and believe  
that the other TYPO3 support mechanisms (documentation, mailing lists)  
should handle most technical questions.

The group has always been helpful to me even when there were just 3 of  
us meeting. We also enjoy each others company which helps a lot and  
is, in my opinion, the key to keeping a group together and moving  
forward.

One exercise you might want to try to give some structure to the group  
is to take a chapter per meeting from the "Mastering Typoscript" book  
by Packt Publishing and work through it. They also have a new book  
"Building Websites with TYPO3" which might also be a good candidate  
for the exercise. Much of how you would want to conduct meetings will  
be dependent on the people in the group--their personalities and level  
of TYPO3 knowledge

Ron Hall
Dallas, Texas

blog: "Adventures in TYPO3" at www.busynoggin.com/blog
web: www.busynoggin.com





On Nov 30, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Duffy, Chris wrote:

> A colleague and I and one other person set up a Houston UG and we met
> several times, but we don't know enough to help each other. With the
> holidays approaching it has fizzled out.
>
> How did other user groups get started?
>
> Perhaps someone could make flash presentations with text only versions
> that cover setting up beusers & feusers, setting permissions on  
> folders
> so you don't get hacked (This keeps happening to me), etc..
>
> I know there are some German videos, but I'd like to be able to link  
> to
> English versions on our T3HUG website. http://t3hug.org/
>
> Chris Duffy
> Houston
>
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>
> Chris,
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> I agree with you on all points of easier searching and regional user
> groups. There's a few of us within 90-minutes of the Boston area, but
> have yet to be able to sit down together. There's a lot we could
> share when in the same room.
>
> I will note that we had a minor TYPO3 meeting in Atlanta this past
> summer and it was great to meet a few folks of the US TYPO3
> community. Out of it arose the TYPO3 Marketing Association. Now we
> just need to get back onto the marketing efforts, but I wonder if
> RUGs would be a better initial start.
>
> Michael
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