Re: [OSCOM] Sandro steps back

Hi List,

> Those who want to be in the board step forward by the 14th of September by
> writing to the list.  That is from the new member list. If you are not one of
> those, sign up for that and join IRC.

I would like to renew my offer to actively contribute to OSCOM. Below I am
outlining what I think OSCOM should be doing/amiming for followed by what I
can contribute in time and abilities and what experience I am drawing from.

I believe OSCOM could and should offer two major areas of benefit directed
at the people that produce Open Source Content Management Software and also,
as a consequence, those that use it.

One is to foster communication and collaboration between projects. I still
experience that despite the undisputed advantages of diversity, a
substantial part of the required functionality in these systems are solved
redundantly and often also not on a level they could be if collaboration was
less of an exception.

This naturally leads to standards which would help this effort, but would
also speed the effect of an Open Source spearhead that content management
systems often are. By that, I mean the role of bringing Open Source software
to the visible part (as opposed to the occasional Apache Webserver) of IT
operations in organisations that are otherwise dominated by proprietary
software.

This effect is what interests me the most about Open Source CMS's in general
and one effect that I am often part of when propagating TYPO3 (and others)
to customers such as adidas, L'OREAL and others.

So much for my "vision" of what OSCOM should do.

Practically speaking, I would like to start by following up on the
initiative of Bård Farstad of ez, which was welcomed by Boris Kraft of
Magnolia, Alex Kempkens and also me speaking for TYPO3 at LinuxTag06, to
establish a standard for exchanging media assets between systems. Boris,
being the one with a system hinging on JSR 170 sure can contribute a lot and
a project team concentrating on devising  a standard for this matter should
be able to produce valuable and ready-to-use guidelines in terms of weeks
rather than years.

It is also high time for another conference, but I would like to propose
that we try to make this happen as a sub-conference in a major IT
conference, so that we have less hassle with the formalities, less
investment and a much wider reach. There is a number of candidates for this
and I am quite sure that it should be easy to get substantial support, if we
get the big five to ten names in our field together.

Sorry for a long mail and thanks for your attention if you made it down
here.

On to the beef: I should be able to contribute about a day per month to
OSCOM, or two hours per week on a regular basis.
I am an economist and management consultant and have hooked up with TYPO3
contributing practical marketing work and providing strategic guidance to
teh project since the beginning of 2002. I co-founded the TYPO3 association
and wrote most of it's by-laws. The Association currently has about 200
members (half of them companies) and is managing three major events, four
websites with 36.000 registered users, all legal matters and some more
stuff, including a substantial budget.
I have spoken at various editions of CeBit, SYSTEMS, OSCOM in Zurich and
OSCOMTag in Karlsruhe and the Transformation & Innovation Conference in
Washington D.C. Together with Boris Kraft of Magnolia.
I am earning a living as managing partner of dpool, a company I founded in
2003 in it's present form based in Munich, Germany.

I am also a regular guy with a wife and two kids and the new Les Claypool CD
playing while I am writing this.

Cheers

Daniel


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Vice-Chairman
TYPO3 Association
http://association.typo3.org