[TYPO3-UG US] THANKS!

[Chris Duffy]

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Is there anyone the Typo3 Association can court?

~Chris
Houston



At 11:22 AM 4/29/2009, you wrote:
>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
>Taiwan +886 9 8329 0956  US +1 (404) 963-8850 x103  Fax +1 (866) 275-7385
>Read more at www.Acqal.com/blog
>
>
>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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