[TYPO3-UG US] THANKS!

Thu Apr 30 21:52:55 CEST 2009

TYPO3 has already been accepted to the Summer of Code which is what  
you are reading about.

http://news.typo3.org/news/article/google-summer-of-code-accepted-projects/

Ron

On Apr 30, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Chris Duffy wrote:

> Google is sponsoring Joomla.
> http://www.joomla.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4844&Itemid=74
>
> Drupal receives 7 Million. http://acquia.com/press-release-1
>
> 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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