:navigation-title: 06-26 Expansion Committee Scope
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Board Decision: Allow the Community Expansion Committee to broaden the scope
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:Proposed at: 26 June 2024
:Decision owner: `Stefan Busemann`_ and `Tymoteusz Motylewski`_
:Decision status: ✅ Accepted, with **5 yes**

Attendance and voting
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Board Member              Attendance    Vote
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`Olivier Dobberkau`_
`Stefan Busemann`_        In meeting    ✅ Yes
`Boris Hinzer`_           In meeting    ✅ Yes
`Rachel Foucard`_         In meeting    ✅ Yes
`Susi Moog`_
`Tymoteusz Motylewski`_   In meeting    ✅ Yes
`Thomas Maroschik`_       In meeting    ✅ Yes
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.. _Olivier Dobberkau: https://my.typo3.org/u/oli4
.. _Stefan Busemann: https://my.typo3.org/u/stefan.busemann
.. _Boris Hinzer: https://my.typo3.org/u/web-vision
.. _Rachel Foucard: https://my.typo3.org/u/rakel
.. _Susi Moog: https://my.typo3.org/u/psychomieze
.. _Tymoteusz Motylewski: https://my.typo3.org/u/tmotylewski
.. _Thomas Maroschik: https://my.typo3.org/u/tmaroschik

Decision description
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Facts/Problem
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- 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
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The CEC wants to create more leads for the standardized approach for governmental websites within Europe.

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

Financial and human resources impacts
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- 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
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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
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None

Attachments
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Comments
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