[Typo3-UG Australia] Group Activity

[Bernie]

Hi Roger -

> While there is a little activity going on I suggest we start talking 
> about what we all want to get from participating in Oztug.
Hmm - indeed an interesting proposition. You say 25k websites would be a 
nice target - I've worked on a few of those ($300k ones too) and the 
amount of work to complete such large sites is staggering - As a 
"community of consultants" I think we might have to target jobs a little 
down the food chain first up (Well - speaking for myself anyway - Not 
being familiar with others capacities.. I'm thinking sole practitioners 
here networking vs multiple firms)

I think Typo is a fantastic tool that I'm really excited about and just 
getting to grips with - in a design sense it leaves PHP and postnuke et 
al for dead - its got enormous creative freedom and its free / open 
ended to boot :)

As a marketing tool - its almost unprecedented - and a community website 
(australian specific) would be a huge boon not only locally but 
worldwide as a means of showing off the potential power of Typo. The 
trick here is NOT to reinvent the wheel and try to pull content from the 
central repository.

Hence - I feel the mainstay of the website is to promote Typo3 in 
australia - and the australian "consultants" we have, in order to: a) 
land bigger jobs b) promote dynamic websites as a whole and c) 
potentially broaden all our skill sets but focus on what we all do best.

> I favor the latter option however this will require a bit of development 
> work by a few keen volunteers.
I'm happy to help out in whatever capacity and limited timeframe I can 
input. :)

 > 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.
sounds great to me ! :)

 > lots of documentation,
> training, market analysis and support services developed.
I think you might need to elaborate somewhat on what your eluding to 
here - Documentation of Typo ? Training ? is this to duplicate typo3.org 
or complement ?

> if anyone wants to be an admin or backend user on this site 
> please contact me. 
count me in :)

> Also if anyone got ideas about a page structure and 
> design please contribute.
to design any website - we would need to develop a brief - and concept 
(sketches - ideas - thoughts et al)

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

I think locals meeting locals is definately a boon - but ultimately, for 
a ug to work australia wide - we will require some form of meeting 
method. I suggest an IRC channel might be a good idea too long term (?) 
eg - #typo3aug on quakenet would be a logical starting point ?

All sounds like fun !

Regards

Bernie
VRgrafix
www.vrgrafix.com.au