[Typo3-marketing] Consultancy

[Jan-Hendrik Heuing [netfielders]]

> > About the consultancy;
> > At first I think that to be a good Typo3 consultant, your basic
qualification
> > should be to be a good consultant; somebody who can pick-up a big
project,
> > look at it with a helicopter vieuw, understands what is needed (in Typo3
> > terms) to realise it, makes a functional design, a detailed planning, a
time
> > frame for realisation and forms a team of specialist to realise it.
Ofcourse
> > most of this qualifications might be impersonated into one person but
will be
> > done by a team of people within a company.
> > The fact if you can make your own extentions doesn't matter at all in my
> > humble opinion. Because companies will not trust their critical project
into
> > your hands because your such a good programmer. The must have the
feeling that
> > you are the company that can handle their project and knows what is
needed to
> > meet their expectations.
> > Me for myself for example cannot programm a darn thing, but I know what
can be
> > done and let other people ( I need them) programm it, while they are not
> > suited for managing a project and need me to get work.
> > So not your programming skills are what matter for
consultancy -directly, but
> > I agree that you need to comprehend Typo3 very good to make good
judgements
> > about what is needed and what should be programmed.
> >
>
> All agreed. Your suggestion down here is fine with me.

Well...
I'd say splitting it up in more properties:
- netcreators is able to cope with extra-large projects, internaly they will
manage to cope with anything
- netcreators is the wrong company to ask for developing specific plugins.
(this is just an example, nothing agains netcreators..)

Sander, you are right overall, but there are companies they don't need a
company coming up with concepts and anything, they just need someone to
transfer their project into a typo3-project inclusive extensions.

That's why: I'd say: Splitting it up makes sense !

>
> > But what you could do to 'force' companies like ours or Daniels' to
contribute
> > to the list of extentions, is demanding at least one or two extentions
per
> > year. Personnaly I would not have a problem with it at all. The only
> > complication is, when is something our contribution? For example, at the
> > moment phpBB is being re-programmed as a Typo3 extention. Netcreators is
one
> > of the two companies paying for it and it will be available for
everybody. The
> > same with the LDAP script, we are the one sponsoring it. Now can these
be seen
> > as our contributions? I think so :-)
>
> Yup. You bet. Who are you sponsoring phpBB with? Does JHH know about this?

Not at all. But can't be a problem anyway, otherwise they'd have told me ;-)

jh