[Typo3-marketing] United Nations is considering TYPO3

[Reuven Cohen]

Just got an interesting call from a Procurement Officer at the United 
Nations, it seems they are currently considering the use of TYPO3 for 
several of their websites and portals in 2005. The projects will be based 
out of Rome. Does anyone know know of any decent TYPO3 developers in the 
Rome area? I need to find an experienced freelancer who speaks Italian and 
English for a possible presentation in February.

Below is the list of questions they need me to answer, these might also be 
useful in a T3 FAQ section. If you like, I could pass along my responses.

Reuven

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CMS Product Question Summary

Q 1.                 Explain how your product would implement a dynamic menu 
and breadcrumbs (the breadcrumbs should be automatic with no user 
intervention) capability that allows content editors to easily add menu 
items by content. In other words, the navigation should be completely data 
driven. Fully describe any configurations or customizations the product 
requires to achieve this and the extent to which these enhancements can be 
implemented and maintained by non-technical staff.

Q 2.                 Explain how your product implements role definition 
generally, and specifically for the roles described in the specification 
document.

Q 3.                 Describe product support for LDAP.

Q 4.                 Describe how external users (i.e. those not in the LDAP 
database) would authenticate and work with the product.

Q 5.                 Explain how the product assigns content to a specific 
page, and how specific content can be reused on many different pages.

Q 6.                 How does the system allow for managing multiple 
versions of the web site for multiple languages?

Q 7.                 Describe the technical requirements of the proposed 
solution.

Q 8.                 Describe the open standards the solution supports.

Q 9.                 Describe the procedure to customize the user interface 
of the system, including any impact on system upgrades.

Q 10.             Describe how the system implements work queues and 
notifications.

Q 11.             Describe the on-line help capability, including ability to 
customize.

Q 12.             Describe the management reporting capabilities of the 
product.

Q 13.             Describe the ability of the system to enter data in 
non-roman character sets.

Q 14.             Describe the methodology content editors would use to 
locate and edit content, including spell checking and importing from PC 
applications like Word, Excel and PDF format documents.

Q 15.             Describe the ability of the product to incorporate XML.

Q 16.             Describe the process for including nested HTML and 
embedded scripting into content.

Q 17.             Describe the full range of content aggregation 
capabilities, including but not limited to those from external databases, 
web services, and XML. This should include interoperability with the 
Microsoft SharePoint product.

Q 18.             Describe image-editing, video, audio and layout 
capabilities.

Q 19.             Describe metadata capabilities of the system.

Q 20.             Describe workflow and notification capabilities of the 
system.

Q 21.             Describe the template methodology of the system, including 
how they are created, edited and stored.

Q 22.             Describe any special tagging that templates require.

Q 23.             Describe the version control mechanisms used by the 
system.

Q 24.             Describe the ability of the system to produce multiple 
versions of the web site.

Q 25.             Describe system support for delivering a text-only 
version.

Q 26.             Describe the site map creation functions of the product.

Q 27.             Describe the page printing capability.

Q 28.             Describe how users can vote online

Q 29.             Describe how ratings of articles and pages are aggregated 
and displayed on-line

Q 30.             Describe how users can submit a link

Q 31.             Describe web page generation capabilities, including 
scheduling and on-demand generation features.

Q 32.             Describe a typical system implementation architecture, 
including options for scaling.

Q 33.             Describe the content syndication capabilities of the 
system.

Q 34.             Describe product support indexing and searching content.

Q 35.             Describe product support and capabilities for visitor 
registration and personalization

Q 36.             Describe system capabilities for managing access to 
restricted information.

Q 37.             Describe system features related to on-line collaboration 
by sharing documents and instant communication.

Q 38.             Describe product ability to create a newsletter document 
for e-mail or print.