[Typo3-typo3org] Extension Award in T3N magazine WAS: 3000€ Extension Award 2006

[Elmar Hinz]

Hello community,

until now there was no feedback on my proposal about an extension award 
in the typo3org list.

Today I got feedback from Andreas Lenz in the name of the german TYPO3 
print magazine T3N bei mail. They like the idea of an award for 
extension programming and ask me to take up this thread again. They 
offer to print an announcement for the award in one of their next 
editions. That may either be a call for sponsors or, if we already have 
found them, it could be an announcement of the award itself.

Now it is rather the field of the TYPO3 association to organize the 
official part of awards. For this reason I would like to get some 
statements from them. Please answer to the thread.

It is the part of the extension developer community and of the extension 
users to discuss and define the targets of the award. Therefore I will 
send this to the developer list, too. Who do you think should join a 
jury? Logically a member of the jury can't get the price itself.

Now it is up on you, guys, to develop the idea to a point, that it is 
worth to get it printed.

Kind regards

Elmar


Elmar Hinz wrote:
> Hello extension developers?
> 
> do you want to get the "TYPO3 Extension Award 2006"?
> 
> 
> Never heard of it? But you want to get it? Well let's call it a vision 
> then.
> 
> During a lunch talk with some typo3 professionals we thought about how 
> to bring order, reliability and interoperability into the extension 
> thing. We came to the conclusion that user ratings, reviews and comments 
> (maybe similar to user reviews at amazon) are the most importent strategy.
> 
> But there are still some open questions about quality that would best be 
> solved with official certification of extensions.
> 
> Best practice standards for extensions:
> ===============================================
> * "Extension Interoperability API" that still needs to be defined
> * Full documentation
> * Full sourcecode documentation
> * Full support of languages, locales, realurl, frames
> * Implemented hooks
> * Existance and reachability of a support team for bugfixing etc.
> * etc.
> 
> The extension review team like it was organized in the past never 
> produced results. Over 1000 Extensions and no real motivation to do the 
> boring reviews. It couldn't work this way.
> 
> Here enters "TYPO3 Extension Award" the scene. The target is to motivate 
> extension developers to do the mayor part of the extension review work 
> themselfs and to motivate a jury to verify this. To take part in the 
> contest, candidates have to document themself, that their extension 
> meets the official "Best Practice" requirements.
> 
> We estimate that only one ore two dozens extensions per year will be of 
> a quality to meet all the requiremts to take part in the contest. So the 
> work for the jury won't be to much and it is connected with a lot of 
> honour.
> 
> The result per year should be:
> 
> * One Award winning extension
> * Maybe a dozen officially certified extensions, that the community can 
> really rely on and enjoy
> 
> If you think the idea of an "Extension Award" is a really cool thing 
> then we still have to answer the question how to get the award sponsored.
> 
> Idea 1: Three sponsors of the award each give 1000€ and get named as the 
> official award sponsors.
> 
> Idea 2: One sponsor of the award gives 3000€ and the award gets the name 
> of the sponsor.
> 
> I am curious for your meanings about an extension award.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Elmar
> 
> 
> P.S. We called the award the "Golden Kasper". ;-)
> 

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