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title: "Board Decision: Allow the Community Expansion Committee to broaden the scope"
manual: "TYPO3 Community infrastructure"
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# Board Decision: Allow the Community Expansion Committee to broaden the scope {#t3a-board-decision-2024-06-26-expansion-committee-scope}

-   *Proposed at:* 26 June 2024
-   *Decision owner:* [Stefan Busemann](https://my.typo3.org/u/stefan.busemann) and [Tymoteusz Motylewski](https://my.typo3.org/u/tmotylewski)
-   *Decision status:* ✅ Accepted, with **5 yes**

## Attendance and voting {#attendance-and-voting}

| Board Member | Attendance | Vote |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Olivier Dobberkau](https://my.typo3.org/u/oli4) |  |  |
| [Stefan Busemann](https://my.typo3.org/u/stefan.busemann) | In meeting | ✅ Yes |
| [Boris Hinzer](https://my.typo3.org/u/web-vision) | In meeting | ✅ Yes |
| [Rachel Foucard](https://my.typo3.org/u/rakel) | In meeting | ✅ Yes |
| [Susi Moog](https://my.typo3.org/u/psychomieze) |  |  |
| [Tymoteusz Motylewski](https://my.typo3.org/u/tmotylewski) | In meeting | ✅ Yes |
| [Thomas Maroschik](https://my.typo3.org/u/tmaroschik) | In meeting | ✅ Yes |

## Decision description {#decision-description}

### Facts/Problem {#facts-problem}

-   The Community Expansion Committee (CEC) started to engage with countries mostly in the South and East (developing countries).
-   The general concept of offering a standardized approach for governmental websites is successful - not only in developing countries.
-   On several occasions, contacts with leads in countries in Europe have been created.
-   The Community Expansion Committee is currently limited to developing countries.
-   We should avoid multiple parties going to the same institution/country without knowing it. So exchange of information between the Committee, the Board and the TYPO3 GmbH (including the project ambassador) needs to happen.
-   The CEC is collecting information about countries and their potential for TYPO3 in the public sector in a structured way; the idea is to use it also for other countries.

### Objective {#objective}

The CEC wants to create more leads for the standardized approach for governmental websites within Europe.

### Obligations to cooperate {#obligations-to-cooperate}

TYPO3 GmbH / TYPO3 Association Board - to avoid duplicate efforts.

### Financial and human resources impacts {#financial-and-human-resources-impacts}

-   None on short notice.
-   In the medium term, the team needs to grow to spread the tasks over several shoulders. More activities can lead to the need to increase the funds in later years.

### Resolution/Petitum {#resolution-petitum}

Allow the Community Expansion Committee to approach countries within Europe as well, and to be a go-to place to inform if somebody was approached by a country/public institution, so information is tracked in one place (right now, even if some country is using TYPO3, we often don't know it, which makes communication hard).

### Discarded alternatives {#discarded-alternatives}

None

### Attachments {#attachments}

None

### Comments {#comments}

None