[TYPO3-UG US] THANKS!

[Michael Cannon]

I attended the TYPO3 Association meeting in Zurich this past March.
Currently, the TYPO3.com and TYPO3.org reorganization is held up by a
private company either paid by the T3A or volunteering to do the work.

In any case, rumors has it that only content is left to be migrated and the
new launch is around September. That being said, during the meeting we
talked a bit of the concerns of getting real marketing awareness of TYPO3
out there.

Also, as part of the TYPO3 reorg project is the attempt to raise money for
hiring a professional marketer for promoting TYPO3 based upon a
professionally written marketing plan for open source projects. If you'd
like to help support that effort, please donate through
http://typo3.org/donate and mark the funds for the fundraising project.

Read more on fundraising at http://typo3.org/donate/fundraising-project/.

I've asked Peter, T3A communication guru, for him to get back with me with
an update if possible.
--
Michael Cannon
CEO, Acqal Corporation -- Official TYPO3 Agency for Website Content
Management
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 22:59, Jeff Segars <jsegars at alumni.rice.edu> wrote:

> Hey Sean,
>  From what I hear, there's a major redesign in progress that will merge
> the .org and .com sites into one. I think this should help a lot, as
> typo3.org  is currently the go-to resource but, as you mention, is
> completely developer focused.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> Sean Fulton wrote:
> > Anyone given any thought to re-doing the Typo3 web site? We sell
> > typo3-based solutions and are constantly competing against Drupal and
> > Joomla based solutions. Prospects who visit the Typo3 web site view it
> > more as an academic site, while the sites for these two other open
> > source content management systems are much more accessible and friendly
> > for non-technical folks who have to make a decision where to put their
> > money.
> >
> > We've built a number of pages to promote Typo3 to our prospects, but it
> > would be good to see something on an organizational level to make the
> > CMS itself a little easier to grasp by potential customers (as opposed
> > to potential developers, which I think it does fairly well currently).
> >
> > sean
> >
> >
> > Jason Lefkowitz wrote:
> >> I'm another US TYPO3er who couldn't make it to T3CON09-Dallas, but I'm
> >> gratified to hear it was such a success! It's great to see a US TYPO3
> >> community emerging -- let me know if there's anything I can do to keep
> >> the momentum going...
> >>
> >> -- Jason Lefkowitz
> >>
> >> ==========
> >> Jason A. Lefkowitz
> >> Alexandria, VA
> >> w: http://www.jasonlefkowitz.net
> >> e: jason at jasonlefkowitz.net
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Zachary Davis, Cast Iron Coding LLC wrote:
> >>
> >>> Big thanks from all of us at CIC to Mark, Ron and Jeff and anyone
> >>> else I'm forgetting here for all the work on T3CON09-Dallas. I
> >>> thought it was a tremendous success, and I'm really happy to have
> >>> been able to meet so many people on this project. Let's keep our
> >>> small but growing US T3 community alive and do our best to keep the
> >>> conversation going here.
> >>>
> >>> Whether or not you're at the conference, please chime in and let us
> >>> know you're on this list - I think it would be good to get a sense of
> >>> who's currently active in the North American TYPO3 community.
> >>>
> >>> For those of you who couldn't make it, there are already a number of
> >>> resources on the web related to the conference. Most people who were
> >>> in attendance seem to have tagged their conference related tweets as
> >>> #t3con09tx, #t3con-dallas, or #t3con09-dallas. A handful of the
> >>> presentations are already available here:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.slideshare.net/event/t3con09-dallas
> >>>
> >>> Looking forward to meeting more of you in the future - I couldn't be
> >>> happier to see that the TYPO3 community is alive and well in the US
> >>>
> >>> best,
> >>> Zach
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----------------------------
> >>> Zach Davis
> >>> Cast Iron Coding - Portland OR, USA
> >>> http://www.castironcoding.com
> >>> zach at castironcoding.com
> >>>
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