[Typo3-UG Australia] Group Activity

[Roger Bunyan]

Hi all,

I'm back from a couple of days away, and it is great to see things 
happening. The "Fatboys Cafe" meeting will be the first real meeting of 
Oztug - well done.

While there is a little activity going on I suggest we start talking 
about what we all want to get from participating in Oztug. At the moment 
I see we have two choices, either we remain as a very loose group and 
just use it as a means of networking or we form more of an "alliance of 
consultants" and develop a resource base for our mutual benefit.

I favor the latter option however this will require a bit of development 
work by a few keen volunteers.

What I am suggesting is building a typo3 web that demonstrates most of 
what typo has to offer and how it is built - a bit like a website with 
the bonnet up.

Also the site could help develop marketing and other support services 
and it is in this area that projects can be value added, turning $5k 
jobs into $25k ones. For this there needs to be lots of documentation, 
training, market analysis and support services developed.

I am really busy this week but I will set up a dummy site today with an 
ip address, if anyone wants to be an admin or backend user on this site 
please contact me. Also if anyone got ideas about a page structure and 
design please contribute.

as for using typo3 in our domain name such as typo3.com.au - I think the 
following applies:

    * TYPO3 is a trademark owned by Kasper Skårhøj. Using the name for
      anything else than TYPO3 itself is prohibited.
    * TYPO3 is copyright material of Kasper Skårhøj. Renaming or
      rebranding of this material is not permitted and considered unfair
      use.

however I don't think there would be a problem with typo3 as a subdomain.

Also while I see this resource focusing on typo3 I believe that it could 
also offer support for other software such as oscommerce.

An just as a last thought, does anyone think it would be a good idea to 
organise a video conference?

Roger Bunyan