Re: [Evangelism] Announcing the new WPD Champion

2010-11-12 Thread Karl Horak
Thanks for stepping up on this one, André. Much appreciated. -- Karl -- View this message in context: http://plone.293351.n2.nabble.com/Announcing-the-new-WPD-Champion-tp5733320p5734743.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Evangelism] Wrapping up 4.0

2010-08-21 Thread Karl Horak
Congratulations, Eric, as you come down the home stretch. Just for fun, I took the bulleted points from http://plone.org/products/plone/features/4/ http://plone.org/products/plone/features/4/ and converted them into a Prezi presentation ( http://prezi.com/3ejcvekiipib/plone-4/

[Evangelism] Re: A Plone Prezi

2010-02-04 Thread Karl Horak
I checked out your translation (not that I can read Italian) and was pleased to see that the layout didn't have to change in any significant manner. With some international fonts, I believe the Prezi style has to change, which may have a pretty radical effect on the entire layout. If anyone

[Evangelism] A Plone Prezi

2010-01-31 Thread Karl Horak
I've been plinking around with Prezi and one of my efforts has been http://bit.ly/d5kq3J short presentation on Plone . It keeps evolving with time, but has stabilized for the moment. A version can be generated for offline display since it's just a Flash app. Prezi's can be played in an

[Evangelism] Re: A Plone Prezi

2010-01-31 Thread Karl Horak
My Plone Prezi has been marked for reuse, so others with Prezi accounts should be able to make their own copy and then modify it further. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/A-Plone-Prezi-tp4489073p4491049.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Evangelism] Please join us to chat about the future of Plone.net!

2010-01-16 Thread Karl Horak
Excellent timing, Jon. This should get some visible improvements in place in time for WPD and the late spring Plone symposia. JonStahl wrote: The Plone Foundation board has asked me to kick off a conversation about how we can continue to refine and improve Plone.net so that it is an even

Re: [Evangelism] Interesting places to market plone

2010-01-14 Thread Karl Horak
Dylan, Thanks for bringing this up. I can knock off that first item you mention, weekly downloads. As a first whack, the https://code.edge.launchpad.net/plone/+download LaunchPad numbers for the past 12 months (basically version 3.2 and up) total 1.14 M. Average weekly downloads are

Re: [Evangelism] [DW] Query - Are any government-focused open source consortiums still operational?

2010-01-07 Thread Karl Horak
Touch base with Deb Bryant. She's very active with open source and government. Try her Twitter account (http://twitter.com/debbryant) or her blog (http://www.bryantsblog.com/) for more information. kiazami wrote: Hi There, I am Csaba, working with Balazs in Hungary, and have run into

Re: [Evangelism] Value proposition and positioning

2009-12-29 Thread Karl Horak
You might want to take a look at the http://www.coactivate.org/projects/plone-marketing/summary Plone Marketing Project at Co-Activate. --Karl ejah wrote: I got the strong impression from going through this list and other docs that we are having trouble with our positioning and value

Re: [Evangelism] Strategy focus de cisions - Plone-the-product vs. Pl one-the-platform – Discovering a b log entry by Paul Everitt from 2008

2009-12-01 Thread Karl Horak
One of our big Plone solutions reliably runs half a TB. More details in a case study early next year. ctxlken wrote: 5) Terabyte storage solutions. Documentum and their DMS-based ilk have handled this for years. How many large-scale storage Plone case studies are there on plone.net?

Re: [Evangelism] Hack Plone! Win a Mac!

2009-11-27 Thread Karl Horak
Just tossing my 2 cents worth in here -- if there were any Plone sites in the world that hackers were already targeting, it would be FBI and CIA. I'm sure we would have heard of any failure there. Meanwhile, I think the Foundation should sponsor a system of clandestine honeypots out there

[Evangelism] Plone Wins Packt 2009 Award

2009-11-09 Thread Karl Horak
Plone came away with the 2009 Packt http://www.packtpub.com/award Best Other Open Source CMS Award today. Spread the word and make hay before the other Packt winners are announced tomorrow and following days. Some things to think about: press release (Mark?), retweets, blog posts, etc.

Re: [Evangelism] PloneConf2009 Marketing Meeting

2009-10-29 Thread Karl Horak
Please clarify -- 10:00 a.m. or 4:15 p.m. Budapest time? Francesco Ciriaci wrote: The last proposal is to move to 4.15 p.m. the meeting so that us evangelists can remotely join the discussion. -- View this message in context:

Re: [Evangelism] PloneConf2009 Marketing Meeting

2009-10-27 Thread Karl Horak
2:00 a.m. MDT -- n problem! My permanent jet-lag usually has me up at that hour anyway. Just check the times on my blog postings for the last year. :-)) -- Karl Francesco Ciriaci wrote: Hi all, due to the high number of people interested I've set up a page:

Re: [Evangelism] [Participants] Who's interested in a 2009:Plone Marketing Meeting?

2009-10-26 Thread Karl Horak
Despite 8-9 time zones difference (daylight saving time ends in the US this weekend), is there a chance for remote participation? At the very least, capture on video and upload later. Also, be sure to post an evangelism/advocacy/marketing segment during the unconference on Friday.

Re: [Evangelism] Plone Awards BoF at Plone Symposium East

2009-06-01 Thread Karl Horak
Thanks for the update. I see Mark also responded off list overnight. Considering the current time frame (Budapest is sooner than one would like to think), I have to agree that we probably should scale the 1st Awards back so we can guarantee a successful maiden voyage and a repeat, if expanded,

Re: [Evangelism] Plone Awards BoF at Plone Symposium East

2009-05-31 Thread Karl Horak
Any word on how the Plone Awards BoF at PSE went and next steps for the Awards? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Plone-Awards-BoF-at-Plone-Symposium-East-tp2948051p3002463.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Evangelism] report of the Plone Foundation booth at NTEN NTC conference in San Francisco

2009-05-01 Thread Karl Horak
All of you deserve our thanks for doing such a bang-up job at NTEN. Even from afar, I noticed a huge upswing in positive Twittering about Plone. When people are publicly saying they're in love with Plone, you know you've done something right. Also, tip o' the hat to everyone who's been good

[Evangelism] Plone vs Drupal Security

2009-04-03 Thread Karl Horak
There has been a Twitter exchange between David Straus and Alexander that has escalated onto Straus's blog regarding the relative security merits of Drupal and Plone. In my last comment I seem to have hit a nerve because David replied, Does Plone even have a system for reporting

Re: [Evangelism] promoting WPD

2009-03-12 Thread Karl Horak
In Albuquerque, we've never had more than a Plone Users luncheon or happy hour. We took a baby step last year by using WPD to hold a Python/Zope/Plone open house. Our corporate daily newsletter gave us a paragraph to explain that we were discussing content management and web solutions to a

Re: Re: [Evangelism] proposal for plone awards

2009-02-13 Thread Karl Horak
Please see http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plone.pony/. Just set your text color to blue. :-D .,,. ,;;*, .-'``;-');;. /' .-. /*;; .'\d\;; .;;;, / o `\;,__. ,;*;;;*;, \__, _.__,' \_.-')

Re: [Evangelism] proposal for plone awards

2009-02-12 Thread Karl Horak
Matt, I think this is a splendid way to raise visibility of Plone in general while giving a much deserved tip o' the hat to hard working, creative developers, designers, and even innovative users. Your proposal is much more effictive than my Plone Metrics Person-of-the-Year Award every Dec.

[Evangelism] The Great Backyard Plone Count

2009-02-12 Thread Karl Horak
Its that time of year again, the time when the folks at the Audubon Society ask birdwatchers everywhere to tally birds and submit their counts online at http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/ their Plone-driven site . The Great Backyard Bird Count runs this Friday through Monday. In a bald-faced

Re: [Evangelism] WPD chat#1

2009-01-21 Thread Karl Horak
Alas, my day-job doesn't permit IRC use, but feel free to ping me with e-mail during the discussion. Some of the post-mortim is at the http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=py-ZRibpWMZXMgI9P-XXweghl=en Google Docs summary or

Re: [Evangelism] April 26, 2009 WPD ??

2008-12-22 Thread Karl Horak
+1 here Donna Snow (SnowWrite)-2 wrote: OK guys I did a little digging and it looks like the May 27th date conflicts with Penn State's Symposium http://weblion.psu.edu/events/plone-symposium-east-2009 So how about we vote on the proposed April 28,2009?? So if you agree on April

Re: Re: [Evangelism] World Plone Day 2009

2008-12-20 Thread Karl Horak
I'll add my Saturday morning two bits to an already over-constrained problem: My company has a 9-80 work schedule (9 days, 80 hrs, every-other Friday off). We miss half the company by having WPD on a Friday. Of course this doesn't apply to the city as a whole if we expand our ABQ outreach.

Re: [Evangelism] plone for nonprofits slide deck

2008-11-27 Thread Karl Horak
I was looking at Jon Stahl's recently uploaded http://www.openplans.org/projects/plone-marketing/contributed-marketing-materials/Plone-for-nonprofits-2008.ppt slide deck for non-profits and noticed his shameless plug for

Re: [Evangelism] World Plone Day 2008

2008-11-16 Thread Karl Horak
Graham, Very cool online sticky notes at diigo. Thanks for introducing it to me. I was spelling out numbers ten and under except at the beginning of a sentence, but I agree, its probably a country-specific matter. You are correct about Vietnam. Interestingly, our colleague from there

Re: [Evangelism] World Plone Day 2008

2008-11-15 Thread Karl Horak
How's this for a start? Feel free to edit heavily and/or translate. Those with good contacts in the media, kindly distribute this or other information before WPD becomes last week's news. Thanks. _ News flash! With 66% of the event sites reporting in, the first

Re: [Evangelism] Postmortem for WPD

2008-11-12 Thread Karl Horak
Thanks, Nate. I was not aware of that feature--it looks pretty cool. I'll be sure to try that the next time I'm requesting info. As it stands, we now (WPD+4) have 15 responses out of 60 WPD venues. 493 confirmed attendees. That's an average of almost 33 attendees per venue. If one

Re: [Evangelism] World Plone Day 2008

2008-11-12 Thread Karl Horak
From the results piling in at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=py-ZRibpWMZXMgI9P-XXweghl=en, it looks like 835 attendees were reported at 33 venues. Extrapolating to the 60 pre-registered venues, we may have had over 1500 attendees world-wide. Brasilia, Brazil is still top of the chart

Re: Re: [Evangelism] Lessons learned from the first World Plone Day

2008-11-09 Thread Karl Horak
Donna, Consider connecting with computer science faculty at a local community college. They often have free access to unscheduled facilities when the general public does not. Partnering with faculty can also drive up interest with students. As an adjunct professor at the College of Santa

Re: [Evangelism] Lessons learned from the first World Plone Day

2008-11-07 Thread Karl Horak
The 2009 World Conference will be announced on Dec. 12 and hopefully that will include a scheduled week. I suggest waiting a month until we know more about that. However, for a first approximation, I see that 6 and 13 Nov. are possibilities (if you're not afraid of Friday the Thirteenth). --

RE: Re: [Evangelism] Operation Ditch Plone

2008-11-05 Thread Karl Horak
No apologies necessary, Howard. As a statistician, I stumbled upon your site looking for online data points, and as a Plone implementer I felt your pain. When our Python guru left, we wandered around in the wilderness for quite a few months but eventually found a balance. It can be very

[Evangelism] Operation Ditch Plone

2008-11-02 Thread Karl Horak
While trolling the web for Plone stats, I came across a seriously negative webpage (on a Plone site!?) obviously by a frustrated Plone user. His web posting is titled Operation Ditch Plone. Please see http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-46

[Evangelism] NOLA Plone Symposium remote support

2008-05-28 Thread Karl Horak
I know many of you reading this will be at the New Orleans Symposium next week. Unfortunately, I won't be, although one of my colleagues will likely be there (if we can cut through all the administrivia in the next few days). Even so, I thought I'd put on my Plone advocacy hat and volunteer