[TYPO3-english] Is there any need for an English TYPO3 discussion forum?

[Steffen Gebert]

Okay, as nobody of the people "offering" their help really does any 
work, I guess we will not have a forum in the near future.

Very sad. I expected more community power from people not being involved 
in a lot of teams already.

Kind regards
Steffen

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Am 5/14/12 3:20 PM, schrieb Steffen Gebert:
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> Dear Thomas, dear Andreas,
>
> as also mentioned in this thread, there is a concrete plan to have an
> official TYPO3 forum since last year's typo3.org relaunch week.
>
> One prerequisite was that this forum stays in sync with newsgroups and
> mailing lists. The good thing is that there is a nice software out
> there, which makes this possible: FUDforum.
>
> The only problem is that the person in charge isn't able to finish this
> project (in a short-term scale). I did some improvements around
> Christmas, however I also have already a lot of other responsibilities
> inside the TYPO3 project.
> Technically, everything is working fine already. The only problems,
> which remain is that there are still a lot of design issues - we have a
> PSD template, which "only" has to be implemented.
>
> Andreas, what about getting your hands dirty and finishing the forum? I
> really think that it is not too much work left and it would be very nice
> to *finally* have this forum.
> Would you be available to do this? If yes, please send me your SSH key
> and I will give you access to the development server (and a short
> introduction).
>
> If no one of you jumps in to finish and maintain that project, I see no
> way to have it in production much before the end of the year.
>
> Kind regards
> Steffen
>
> BTW: Please don't use http://forumdev.typo3.org
>
> - --
> Steffen Gebert
> TYPO3 v4 Core Team Member
> TYPO3 Server Administration Team Member
>
> TYPO3 .... inspiring people to share!
> Get involved: http://typo3.org
>
> I work for TYPO3 solely in my spare time. If you think that
> my work helps you running your business, you are invited to
> send me a donation via PayPal to this email address. Thanks
>
> On 14.05.12 13:06, Thomas Skierlo wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I'm a German living in the Netherlands, who prefers to discuss technical
>> matters in English forums and lists. I'm a participating on this list
>> for about two month now, and I like the friendliness and quality of it
>> very much.
>>
>> All official TYPO3 documentation is in English and the product localizes
>> extremely well. I think that many people, like me before, do not
>> subscribe to mailing lists, mainly because they are looking for other
>> forms of information first, like discussion forums, which might be a
>> more modern approach -- at least a more convenient one.
>>
>> One major aspect of a forum is the fact, that beginners get good hints,
>> mainly from other, more advanced beginners and intermediates. A forum
>> therefore could help to keep the very basic questions out of the mailing
>> lists, which always will cover more advanced topics.
>>
>> If you use Google for some usage statistics you'll find out that TYPO3's
>> acceptance is extremely good for the German (or similar) language
>> countries, like Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and it's
>> popularity and installation-count is decreasing outside the EU and
>> Scandinavian countries. Imagine yourself a young turkish CMS developer,
>> who wants to learn more about TYPO3. Besides the official documentation
>> he or she would hunt for information in Turkish or English language, but
>> definitely no in German.
>>
>> Today we have two well administrated and lively forums in German
>> language and, at least after my short research, not even one in English.
>> Other users and I suggested an "English" section for the most active
>> German TYPO3 forum at http://www.typo3forum.net
>> <http://www.typo3forum.net/> , and the makers behind it would agree to
>> open one (or more), if it would really be of general interest.
>>
>> I was asked to discuss this matter on the mailing list -- voilà. I'm a
>> plain user of the forum mentioned, and not an owner or maker of it
>>
>> Would you like to have an English language subsection on this popular
>> forum - not as an alternative to this excellent mailing list, but as an
>> addition? If yes, which structure should it have?
>>
>> All of you who can read German will find the active discussion under
>> http://www.typo3forum.net/forum/aenderungen/49716-typo3-forum-englisch.html.
>> Use this thread as well if you like.
>>
>> TIA for any feedback,
>>
>> Thomas Skierlo
>>
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