Could it also be that Plone has been marketed as "Plone v1, v2, v3, v4" for 10 years and that has very little appeal?
As a marketing-driven company, Apple understood this phenomenon very well and, instead, rolled out "Tiger", "Leopard", "Snow Leopard", "Lion"... unveiling each version as a totally new product. This allowed them to leverage totally different marketing campaigns and keep the public interested. Can we orchestrate a grand new product launch for Plone 5 under a different marketing name (but keep the Plone name as the umbrella brand)? Gabrielle -- Six Feet Up, Inc. | Where sophisticated web projects thrive Direct Line: +1 (317) 861-5948 x601 Email: gabrie...@sixfeetup.com Try Plone 4 Today at: http://plone4demo.com On May 22, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Ken Wasetis [Contextual Corp.] wrote: > +1 Sounds like a great idea! Maybe approach the marketing committee and/or > Board? > > On 5/22/12 2:03 PM, Armin Stroß-Radschinski wrote: >> Google Summer of Code supporting Plone may was a good recognition in the >> upcoming professionals area. Timo Stollenwerk and Franco Pellegrini are >> excellent examples what kind of success good newcomer support can bring up! >> We need such successful people talk more about their involvement. >> >> Cab we create a well donated developer contest attracting new guys by >> special topics and attractive winner prizes? Of course! Then the celebration >> of the handing over should be a remarkable media event (at least look like!) >> >> To design and deliver a remarkable award trophy that makes up good photos >> and heavy weight on the desk should be no problem (for me ;-) waving! We >> were running pupil contests with around 5000 participants each time for >> nearly 10 years. The setup is in the drawer! >> >> Armin >> >> >> Am 22.05.2012 um 19:23 schrieb Maurizio Delmonte: >> >>> >>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Matt Hamilton <ma...@netsight.co.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>> Not sure if it means anything but our company submitted 4 talks for >>>> pyconau this year. The two plone related talks were the two rejected. >>>> It got me to thinking about the plone communities relationship to the >>>> python community. >>>> I think open source is spread by fans, people not directly involved with >>>> the software itself. Those fans exist in a much larger community than >>>> plone itself. It makes me think that if the python community aren't fans >>>> of Plone, then where are our fans? >>>> Sorry it's a little negative and off topic. >>> >>> Similar experiences with Europython the past few years. There were a load >>> of Plone talks submitted this year, and the only ones accepted were the >>> ones that did not mention Plone in the title. >>> >>> actually, I have two talks in Europython this year: one mentions both Plone >>> and Django in the title, the other just declares "professional content >>> management with Python in 2012".. >>> >>> both the talks are in italian, so good chance are there that they were >>> short in proposals ;) >>> >>> Nonetheless, Django itself this year had a very low profile presence at >>> Europython (try to search for it here >>> https://ep2012.europython.eu/p3/schedule/ep2012/ and you'll see just 3 >>> talks on Django, then two more, one very tech unrelated and the other from >>> me..) >>> >>> I believe we need to be present at PyCons as much as we can, to make people >>> aware that Plone is well alive and that plone could serve them well >>> (finally we are made out of Python, aren't we?). >>> >>> I also believe that Matt & c. are right in saying that we should try to >>> attract devs using other channels, universities being a good alternative to >>> me. >>> Let's inspire more people to do this! >>> >>> Maurizio >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Maurizio Delmonte - [maurizio.delmo...@abstract.it] >>> >>> Abstract Open Solutions [http://www.abstract.it] - Tel: +39 081 06 08 213 >>> >>> Join me at EuroPython [http://goo.gl/mmV25] >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.it.html >>> >>> Ai sensi del d.lgs. 196 del 30 giugno 2003, recante disposizioni per la >>> tutela delle persone e di altri soggetti rispetto al trattamento dei dati >>> personali, si precisa che questa email è inviata unicamente ai destinatari >>> sopra esposti, con espressa diffida di leggerla, copiarla, diffonderla ed >>> usarla senza autorizzazione. Se avete ricevuto questa email per errore, vi >>> preghiamo di distruggerla immediatamente e contattarci tramite uno dei >>> recapiti sopra indicati. >>> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Armin Carl Stroß-Radschinski, Dipl. Designer >> acsr industrialdesign, Landgrafenstraße 32, 53842 Troisdorf, Germany >> >> Telefon +49 (0) 22 41 / 94 69 94, FAX +49 (0) 22 41 / 94 69 96 >> eMail a.stross-radschin...@acsr.de - http://www.acsr.de >> UST. ID Nr: DE154092803 (EU VAT ID) >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Evangelism mailing list >> evangel...@lists.plone.org >> https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-evangelism >> >> > > -- > Ken Wasetis > > President& CMS Solution Architect > Contextual Corp. > office: 847-356-3027 > ken.wase...@contextualcorp.com > > _______________________________________________ > Evangelism mailing list > evangel...@lists.plone.org > https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-evangelism
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