[TYPO3-UG Australia] G'day guys

[Damien Bezborodow]

steve ryan wrote:
> 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.

Good on ya! I'm currently working on a site for Robotics Peer Mentoring, 
which is a program in which University students teach high school 
students robotics (in which I took part). It's a community driven site 
with lots of features such as file repositorys and message boards, so it 
will be a good challenge. I need to finish off the install, so I'll post 
the address when it's done for interest's sake.

> 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.

Yes, I heard they went up that way. Sounds like you found it worthwhile.

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

I received an SMS from Matt. Apparently Ingmar is "a whole different 
story" with Cruisers!

> Steve Ryan

Have fun!

-- Damo