Dear Bernd, dear Ron, dear all, We have the "Certified TYPO3 Integrators". Why not having Certified TYPO3 Hosters, too? I personally would say this is a great idea. And for sure hosters will pay for that. This is advertising for them and they will benefit from this.
Certification is a full load of work. So a testing-script would be excellent, too. What we need: * a concept * someone to set the program up and (more important:) keep it running (volunteers) * a decision and commitment by the Association in the first place :-), I can only speak for me right here. So here we go: * I will put this issue on the agenda of our next meeting. * We would need volunteers for a "Hosting Provider Certification Team". This will be work guys. And it needs volunteers that stick to it not only for a day or so. If you are prepared, please send me a mail to [email protected] with the subject: "hoster certification team". Please also mention in your mail if you would have technical skills to write a testing script. * If you are interested on results and what is happening with this issue please stay tuned at http://buzz.typo3.org/teams/boarding/ * Meanwhile, continue to post your ideas on which criteria should be fulfilled to get certified. Boarding, please! Peter -- With best regards on behalf of the TYPO3 Association Peter Proell TYPO3 Association Board Member http://association.typo3.org Ron Hall schrieb: > Hello Bernd, > > First let me say that your suggestion for a testing script is a good > one. SlideShowPro director has such a script for its application and I > have found it helpful. It checks for all the required items and also for > the "nice to have" items. It would even better that it be a stand alone > file not a T3d file as you could test before you had TYPO3 installed. > > However, I still believe a paid certification is still a good idea. A > hosting company would not have to be certified. They can still claim > they support TYPO3 just like non-certified developers can offer TYPO3 > services. I have not yet taken the certification exam, but I am a > competent TYPO3 developer and advertise as such. > > Non-certification does not mean a company is not competent, but simply > that, for whatever reason, they have chosen not to be certified. But > certification would mean that the company has invested the time and > capital to be certified and that those efforts are officially recognized. > > As for hosting companies deciding on certification or not, there is a > difference between a hosting company being cheap and being low-cost. > > To be profitable, a low-cost provider depends upon volume, in other > words, hosting many sites. Since certification fees would be charged per > host and not per site, these hosts should be able to afford > certification as easily as premium hosts. > > The hosts that would have trouble would be those that are trying to > conduct business by being low-cost AND low-volume which is always an > unprofitable business strategy. > > Ron Hall > Busy Noggin, Inc. > > > On Jul 5, 2009, at 10:58 AM, bernd wilke wrote: > >> Am Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:37:13 -0500 schrieb Ron Hall: >> >>> Hi Andi, >>> >>> Athough I believe the Association should not bother itself with policing >>> hosts who simply say they support TYPO3, I also believe your idea of a >>> hosting certification has merit. I could see it working like the current >>> developer certification. The Association could legitimately charge fees >>> since time would needed for verifying and monitoring the certified hosts >>> and hosts would gain value by being certified. >> >> I don't think that providers which want to be cheap would pay for a >> certificate. >> may be we could build up a more complex test than the IM-tests in >> install- >> tool? something similar to the acid-test for browsers: >> a basic webpage as t3d-import which includes the most common >> functionality (requiring an extension which must be installed before, >> working on some images, sending a mail (registering), pdf to img, AI to >> img, ... ) >> >> Each provider can install this testpage and everyone can see on the >> resulting website which functions are available, which not. >> >> bernd >> -- >> http://www.pi-phi.de/t3v4/cheatsheet.html >> _______________________________________________ >> TYPO3-english mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.netfielders.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/typo3-english >> > _______________________________________________ TYPO3-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.netfielders.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/typo3-english
