[Typo3-marketing] RFI: Recommendations for Typo3 PR-work ?

[Sander Vogels]

> In the end, the real reason is that no one volunteered to make these
> resources who had the background to do it in english directly.
> 

Not completely true; I started writing articles in English. Then they 
had my work TRANSLATED IN GERMAN without giving me any notice. It was a 
suprise for me that .edu has started in German, so mucht text for 
translation is not there so it could be done in a few weeks.

I think we as a marketing group at least have to take a look in this 
point from marketing perspective. A lot of people, also on the other 
lists and during the T3tour, complained that;
- the book is in German;
- lots of extension documentation is German.
- the official association Bylaws are in German
Some people may indeed consider this as at least a problem for Typo3 (to 
state in mildly) cause all developers speak English, only few outside 
Germany speak German.
This is bad for Typo3 and not the way open-source works, especialy not 
for a CMS that is distributed in 40 languages in over 50 countries.
In my country we got loads of complaints about this tendency of Typo3 
towards German, also from the government officials, and instead of 
giving excuses I guess it's time to make English the official language 
as a policy. I agree it's nice for the German agencies and the German 
market but it holds back the penetration of Typo3 in lots of other 
countries.

Grtz, Sander & Ben