[TYPO3-UG Australia] G'day guys

[steve ryan]

Hi All,
   while there is a bit of traffic and all, introduce myself too.

Steve is my name. I've been working with typo3 for nearly three years. 
Significantly with Roger Bunyan (moderator for this list) and another 
local Greg Coram. We all live on the South Coast of NSW around Bega.

My big interest is using typo3 to develop web applications. We have 
built an accounting application, a project management application and a 
child tracker (for primary school kids various notes and test results) 
using the typo3 page tree to hang together plugins. It's great having 
authentication built in and typoscript cascading through the tree to 
congfigure plugins. Mostly we work with the admin interface plugin to 
create administrative interfaces direct from tables created in the 
kickstarter.

We're also all involved in a community site using typo3 - 
http://thebegavalley.com/ . It's been up for nearly three years now and 
there are stack of community groups and quite a few businesses taking up 
  the option of free hosting. Anyone can register for a free page that 
they can edit in the front or back end. A business (Australian 
Communities INC) has spun off the website and has been very active in 
getting peak community groups and businesses involved. No small feat in 
regional Australia where many business dont even have computers.

Rewarding stuff, seeing people use the site to express themselves. 
Everying from V8 cars to cross stitch patterns, drunken yobs and the 
professional writers guild.

The site has been great for pulling together people to work with typo3. 
We have half a dozen people capable of writing extensions, a dozen who 
can work with TS to develop sites and hundreds of content editors 
working with the back end to build their sites.
I reckon Bega can claim the largest typo3 community in Australia.


Really excited to see the extension coordination team talking about 
standardising a library for front end editing. We developed the admin 
interface plugin which does search/list/view for very little effort but 
we need something a bit more flexible for developing multi stage 
processes. Did some interesting stuff before xmas when Matt Cammerwell 
and Ingmar Schlect came to visit looking at modeling processes.

Anyways, welcome Damo, good onya for kicking of a bit of discussion.
Say hi to Matt.

Steve Ryan



Damien Bezborodow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm Damo. I'm from Adelaide. I was introduced to Typo3 some time ago 
> (credit to swagmaninternet.com) and didn't really get into it. I've also 
> had the opportunity to meet Ingmar, who surely cannot hold his beer.
> 
> I still think that Typo3 is bloated and messy, but it's the most 
> powerfull CMS I've come across so far, so I'm delving deeper into it. 
> I'd like a solution that uses XML and XSLT, so if I do anything (no 
> promises), it will be in that department.
> 
> </introduction>
> <welcome gift="beer"/>
> 
> -- Damien