[Typo3-marketing] News feeding and references

[Juergen Egeling]

* Patrick Gaumond <patrick.gaumond at fsa.ulaval.ca> [040203 15:42]:
> As stated previously, I think one of the area that needs better care of is
> CMS shoot-out/comparisons web sites.
> (Ex: www.cmsreview.com , www.cmsinfo.org , www.opensourcecms.com)
As I started it, I want to make my point more clearly from the last statement.
IMHO "the" Typo3 comparisons are too much understatement. I compared the Typo3
to a "pay product", which shouts out much more. They say: We *run under each
system that offers PHP and MySQL*, not having a clue about NetBSD, FreeBSD,
whatever else exotic OS they never heard of.
Typo3 says: We run Windows and Linux. Correct statement, because this is well
tested, supported, etc. pp. But in fact (IMHO) it runs under the same conditions 
as the comparison product.

> Usually it's free advertising and people can evaluate the health of the
> community/support from these.

If you just run by those statements than Typo3 looses, because it is not
"shining" enough. It looks as if the Typo3 "drinking glass" is "half empty",
and all other glasses are "filled half", ... :-) (I hope you get what I try to say.

As I am "brand new" to Typo3 I cannot judge if this is "wanted", or "just happened
by accident". I personally think it should be changed and am willing to help
out, if "someone who knows" tells me where to start.

> If each extension was a feature added to the "product" as most software
> does, we could produce a new TYPO3 version every month and being at 3.5.14 !
> (with a press release for every decimal!)

I would not do it this way, because than "ill behaving" extensions could harm
Typo3 as well.

> The point is that a release a year doesn't look good for someone
> "not-in-the-know".

You could press release Typo3 releases as they com, *and* press release each
new Typo3 extension.

> How to handle this perception ? 
Make press releases. Question is: Who? What is "official"? What is "wanted" by
the community?, ...

> Produce news once a great features-rich extension see the light ? 
Why not.

> Who will judge ? 
> How to not offend someone who think has a great extension and no ones care ? 
The press prints what the press wants to print. They judge, noone else.

best regards
Juergen
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