[Evangelism] What's new in Plone 4 - great video!

2010-09-03 Thread Graham Perrin
I just watched the video at . Hats off to whoever put the thing together, it's **really** impressive. Yeah! -- View this message in context: http://plone.293351.n2.nabble.com/What-s-new-in-Plone-4-great-video-tp5496485p5496485.html Sent from the Evangeli

[Evangelism] Plone4interop (tag)

2010-01-19 Thread Graham Perrin
Graham Perrin wrote: > > 3. Encourage people to test not only with add-ons, but also with the other > non-core things (such as XDV) shown in > <http://dist.martinaspeli.net/Plone%204%20architecture%20v0.1.pdf>. > I'm using the following tag: Plone4intero

[Evangelism] announcements re: testing alphas, betas and release candidates of Plone 4

2010-01-08 Thread Graham Perrin
Israel Saeta Pérez wrote: > > http://plone.org/news/plone-4-alpha-3-released-please-help-testing > Thanks! Additional thoughts for a future announcement/news item re testing towards 4.0: 1 .Draw attention to http://plone.org/documentation/manual/upgrade-guide/version/upgrading-plone-3-x-t

[Evangelism] Melquiades — dat a about FLOSS projects: Plone

2009-11-01 Thread Graham Perrin
Glancing at , are the graphs etc. about right? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Plone-and-QUALOSS-QUALity-in-Open-Source-Software-tp1402419p3930278.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[Evangelism] WPD: chat:

2009-04-21 Thread Graham Perrin
Are we using irc://irc.freenode.net/#plone-evangelism #plone-evangelism again today? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Plone-Evangelism-tp1094254p2674180.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Evan

[Evangelism] Visual roadmaps for prospective users, integrators and developers (was: How would you position Plone?)

2009-04-21 Thread Graham Perrin
Karl Horak wrote: > > … Plone is at the confluence of open source, enterprise CMS, social & > community CMS, and web publishing CMS. Plone is the only one occupying > those three subway lines (four counting OSS). > > … We can't be experts at … We need to have a generalized toolset that's > v

[Evangelism] Social Mention results for wpd2009

2009-04-20 Thread Graham Perrin
-- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Social-Mention-results-for-wpd2009-tp2667971p2667971.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Evangelism mailing list

Re: [Evangelism] Top 10 Add-ons

2009-04-17 Thread Graham Perrin
In alphabetical order: ARFilePreview AROfficeTransforms Explore portlet iw.memberreplace LinguaPlone

[Evangelism] blogs, planet, indexing, search (was: "Top 15 Questions..." Final Draft)

2009-04-15 Thread Graham Perrin
On 14 Apr 2009, at 07:56, Calvin Hendryx-Parker wrote: http://immersive-training.net/event-updates/blog/2009/4/13/when-the-plone-installer-isn-t-enough That's a great blog entry. IMHO deserves a place in . It would be great if such content could be found by searc

Re: [Evangelism] Plone vs Drupal Security

2009-04-06 Thread Graham Perrin
Thanks to Karl for the link and background. Writers of the report have responded in their own spaces, Interesting stuff

[Evangelism] new.plone.org (was: plone awards and plone.net)

2009-02-27 Thread Graham Perrin
Jon Stahl wrote: > > … wait for new.plone.org to launch (hopefully in the next month or so) > appears strange at the moment. At a glance, some mixture of old and new? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/plone-awards-and-plone.net-tp2357924p2399268.h

Re: [Evangelism] WPD chat#1

2009-01-26 Thread Graham Perrin
Roberto Allende wrote: > > January 27th tuesday at 12pm (Timezone: Pacific Time) > … > #plone-evangelism at irc.freenode.net. > Event is noted in the calendar at . I have included refere

Re: [Evangelism] Plone and QUALOSS - QUALity in Open Source Software

2009-01-15 Thread Graham Perrin
Forwarded with the permission of Gregorio Robles: > From: Gregorio Robles > Date: 12 November 2008 21:17:29 GMT > To: Xavier Heymans > Cc: Graham Perrin > Subject: Re: Plone and QUALOSS - QUALity in Open Source Software > > Hi, Xavier (& Graham) > > El mi

[Evangelism] World Plone Day 2009 collection in Chandler Hub

2008-12-23 Thread Graham Perrin
That is: the URL for read-only access to the collection. For edition of the collection (notes, events etc.) I'll share (not publicise) the URL with Donna and others in due course. I see the sp

[Evangelism] A response from Xiao Feng concerning his blog

2008-12-17 Thread Graham Perrin
Alexander Limi wrote: > > >> Notice all those 'Anonymous Cowards' in the comments? This Drupal site's >> 'User login' feature is not working … I had to laugh (and have commented >> politely to the author). > > That is indeed funny. :D > Not as funny as: my comment to the author (about the lo

Re: [Evangelism] Postmortem for WPD

2008-12-16 Thread Graham Perrin
Nate Aune wrote: > > On Nov 9, 2008, at 7:30 AM, "Donna Snow" wrote: >> We have a bunch of blog posts and some numbers floating around the >> web, let's gather them all in one document. > > If folks have properly tagged them with "worldploneday2008" they > should show up at http://technora

Re: [Evangelism] Blog post -> article

2008-12-10 Thread Graham Perrin
Graham Perrin wrote: > >> … Might be something worth chiming in on in the comments. > > Complete story at <http://bitubique.com/content/im-done-plone> … > >From the author's closing paragraph: > goodbye Plone. Life is much better here in Drupal land. I

Re: [Evangelism] Blog post -> article

2008-12-09 Thread Graham Perrin
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-12-08-020-35-OS-DV Might be something worth chiming in on in the comments. Complete story at with some positive comments including the main Plone page being generated in just 50 ms, for ~25 requ

[Evangelism] aggregates of WPD blogs et cetera: WebSlides option

2008-11-28 Thread Graham Perrin
Nate Aune wrote: > > We could also make a "planet" page that aggregates all blog posts about > the WPD. I think someone already tried to make something like this with > Yahoo Pipes. See the Software Freedom Day planet page: > http://planet.softwarefreedomday.org/ > Hastily thrown together usin

Re: [Evangelism] World Plone Day 2008

2008-11-16 Thread Graham Perrin
Karl Horak wrote: > > How's this for a start? Feel free to edit heavily and/or translate. > Hi ... suggestions in sticky notes at . Where I have highlighted the numbers, some of the numbers below 100 might expressed as words,

[Evangelism] failed migration and cold sweats

2008-11-06 Thread Graham Perrin
Karl Horak wrote: > … Alas, one of our portals didn't survive the migration and failed. The > other 30 or so have done well. We have funding budgeted for the move to > 3.x this year under less pressure.I'm sure our single sys admin > breaks out in a cold sweat every time I remind him that w

Re[Evangelism] ach out, mediation, guidance and Plone world peace: recent examples of the process and of products

2008-11-04 Thread Graham Perrin
>> … a process that tracks frustrated users and implementers, reach out to >> them even when they haven't asked or don't know how to ask for help, give >> them the TLC they need … … guidance first, with the option of mediation to follow. …

Re[Evangelism] ach out, mediation, guidance and Plone world peace

2008-11-04 Thread Graham Perrin
: Karl Horak wrote: > … how can we locate and identify frustrated Plone admins and mitigate any > negativity? Can we set up a formal process to track sites in danger of > falling off the Plone wagon? Would it be possible to as

Re: [Evangelism] Plone code swarm - 275 code contributors - more than Drupal and Joomla combined

2008-11-03 Thread Graham Perrin
Chris Calloway wrote: > All three Plone code swarm visualizations are finished now … > http://plone.org/news/plone-code-swarms-demonstrate-community-vitality MANY THANKS! Please, can the image of the explosion be increased in brightness? (The thumbnail reduction is, at a glance, predominantly

Re: [Evangelism] Plone and QUALOSS - QUALity in Open Source Software

2008-11-02 Thread Graham Perrin
Xavier Heymans wrote: > … So far, it has been very difficult to establish a link with the OS > Community on these topics. … I would like to know if we could find some > "quality leaders" within the Plone and Zope community that could become > technical contact points to provide feedback to the re

[Evangelism] Plone, Python, Zope and much more in Flossmetrics

2008-11-01 Thread Graham Perrin
Xavier Heymans wrote: > … projects analyzed by Flossmetrics: > http://fm3.libresoft.es/retrieval_system … Thanks, Xavier. We find Plone, Python and Zope at

[Evangelism] Plone and QUALOSS - QUALity in Open Source Software

2008-10-31 Thread Graham Perrin
t; explains how collaborative software as Plone brings outstanding benefits > to EU research projects. and by pleasant coincidence, earlier this week I prepared Plone site for a five-nation six-partner EU project :) Regards Graham Perrin, Project/Media Development Officer CENTRIM - the Centre f

Re: [Evangelism] Plone code swarm - 275 code contributors - more than Drupal and Joomla combined

2008-10-29 Thread Graham Perrin
Jon Stahl wrote: > I think it's good to emphasize how open and collaborative the community > is, but wise to avoid direct comparisons with competitors, because it is a > bit of "apples and oranges" due to different community management > structures. +1 to Jon's comments (I drafted this message l

[Evangelism] Plone video manual: easy navigation between episodes/chapters: an example

2008-10-23 Thread Graham Perrin
Graham Perrin wrote: > easiest navigation, between episodes OK, I found the examples that I was seeking: <http://macenterprise.org/content/view/60/42/> <http://macenterprise.org/content/view/29/42/> et cetera. I visualise one Plone training episode per (QuickTime) chapter

Re: [Evangelism] Plone marketing- WPD2008 Slide Deck

2008-10-21 Thread Graham Perrin
Matt Hamilton wrote: > I think integration is a bit more of a loaded word. Indeed. I can imagine many potential customers saying 'but I don't need any integration!'. Have a slide (or brief slide set) that _visualises_ (with no words, or as few words as possible) an integration that is: * eas

Re: [Evangelism] Plone video manual

2008-10-21 Thread Graham Perrin
e of preferred examples, <http://tinyurl.com/prolearn-tv-intro-flash> (2004) is vaguely comparable. I have QuickTime Pro for conversion, from .avi to a range of more compatible formats <http://www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/specs.html> but I should defer conversion until after I have

[Evangelism] Standard wording/FAQ for performance problems with plone.org and add-on/related distribution channels

2008-10-19 Thread Graham Perrin
I suggest that we put together a standard form of wording, in response to people who suffer performance problems with plone.org and/or related distribution channels. It's absolutely true that a problem with launchpad.net is beyond our control; that a download failure for an old-style third-party