TYPO3: extension modification

This project is for a modification to a TYPO3 extension. If you haven't worked with TYPO3 before, then you need not apply. We have a site that currently uses the datamints news ticker to display the headlines of ttnews articles on the site. Currently they are displayed as a vertical scroll, we will be changing this to a horizontal scroll (an existing option in the extension). The modifications we require are as follows: * the site has news articles in 10 - 20 news folders. The extension currently selects the news articles from each of these folders, however we need it to select only 1 article per folder (actual number to be configurable by typoscript). If the article is x days old, it will not be displayed. * currently, the ticker only selects the title of each article, we need it to also display the subheader (up to x characters) and image. If no image is available in the article, then it needs to select a default image for the news folder (default image per folder could be specified by typoscript) * nice to have, though not necessarily required, will be the ability to manually move the articles left and right While it seems that the easiest thing to do will be to modify this extension, we are open to creating a new extension if that will be easier. Contact me if you are interested and I will send you links to the current site as well as a concept of the final product.