[Typo3-marketing] Consultancy

[Daniel Hinderink]

Hi Sander,

Good to know you are alive and kicking :-)

> 
> 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.

> 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?

Cheers,

Daniel


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Daniel Hinderink
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