Re: [Evangelism] Value proposition and positioning

2010-05-17 Thread Mark A Corum
As the marketing presence on Coactivate is terribly out of date, some of the documents have been removed because they were no longer accurate. The Foundation board approved a short term marketing plan at our meeting last week, and we're going to be working on distributing that information to

Re: [Evangelism] The State of Drupal

2010-05-17 Thread Steve McMahon
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Nate Aune na...@jazkarta.com wrote: ... What would it take to bundle up some Plone add-ons and release it as a PloneSocial distro? What add-ons should be included? Would you want to lead the charge to put something together? That could be as simple as

Re: [Evangelism] The State of Drupal

2010-05-17 Thread Nate Aune
What would it take to bundle up some Plone add-ons and release it as a PloneSocial distro? What add-ons should be included? Would you want to lead the charge to put something together? That could be as simple as creating a buildout extension configuration. In a sense, we now have included

[Evangelism] The State of Plone

2010-05-17 Thread Csaba Madarász
Hi, Some of you might remember me - I am Csaba, used to work with Balazs, and made an interview with Steve (do your remember?) now out of Plone. But what you are talking about now, makes me to give some feedback, although I do not make any business with Plone ;) I am one of the user testing

Re: [Evangelism] The State of Drupal

2010-05-17 Thread Ken Wasetis [Contextual Corp.]
+1 The buildout approach was exactly what I was thinking when reading Nate's last email too, Steve :) Niche/Type-of-Site/Industry-specific Distros are something we've talked about for a long time. I recall a few of us on this list doing so at a BoF at the Seattle Conference. But we didn't

Re: [Evangelism] Plone Magazine - a way to review the plethora of Plone add-ons and themes

2010-05-17 Thread Mark A Corum
David, We have a news roundup of Plone news which appears on plone.org the first of each month called This Month in Plone. Check it out on the front page of plone.org. It currently includes articles pulled from plone.org news releases, upcoming events, information on upcoming and new software

Re: [Evangelism] Plone Magazine - a way to review the plethora of Plone add-ons and themes

2010-05-17 Thread David Bain
Mark, That makes a lot of sense. I can start by reviewing stuff I use regulary so probably collective.uploadify and collective.easyslider. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Mark A Corum m...@plone.org wrote: David, We have a  news roundup of Plone news which appears on plone.org the first of