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

[Gregory Remington]

Duffy, Chris wrote:
> I would love to see easier searching of the lists. And I would like to
> help organize regional user group meetings or training around the US.
> Build it and they will come, right? Even if there are only a few people,
> I am so hungry for education on typo3, I have even flown to Dallas to
> attend the Dallas user group meeting. Which was very helpful! Thank you
> DUG!
> 
> Perhaps we could have virtual meetings on a regular basis.

I agree, the Jive forum search capabilities is what made 
support.typo3.org what it was. I often used Jive's filtering options 
over Google.

The biggest draw back with Jive is "the price".
http://www.jivesoftware.com/pricing/

Since I don't code, I have no idea what would be involved to integrate 
the mailing lists with an existing TYPO3 forum (mm_forum, chc_forum). We 
really need the right human resources and "financing" for projects like 
this. A volunteer initiative is to limited to people free time unless 
there is some type of economic return for the "investment".

I think virtual meetings may be a good way to kick start more commercial 
and non commercial support for the USA!

I've found a combination of Skype and Yugma work great! The free version 
of Yugma works great for basic screen sharing.
http://www.yugma.com

Let's make a policy to leave our web cams in the off position please... 
some of us may need to take a shower, brush our hair and clean our home 
offices :)

Greg

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