<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Last weekend was the New Zealand pycon where Joel Burton gave a keynote. He also gave a 30min talk on what is Plone. I've been working with Plone for 6 years but I was taken aback by just how impressive Plone is when you really see all the feature back to back presented to you in a well delivered way.<div><br></div><div>The video's not up yet but it should appear soon [1]</div><div><br></div><div>It did make me think however that a demo video based on that talk would work great on the plone site as well being able to be played on a monitor at trade shows. Something 10min long maybe with audio but also text so it could play silent if need be?</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://kiwipycon.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc">http://kiwipycon.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc</a><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> </div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">11 November 2009 9:54:00 PM</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica"><b>Packt Feedback</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">Schlepp <<a href="mailto:noreply@blogger.com">noreply@blogger.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Source: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">Planet Plone</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Author: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">Schlepp <<a href="mailto:noreply@blogger.com">noreply@blogger.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Stoyan Stefanov, one of Packt's judges, gives a high-level overview of how he saw the non-PHP systems stack up during this year's competition.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.phpied.com/open-source-cms-award-2009/trackback/" style="text-decoration: none; ">His evaluation</a>included these bullets:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><ul><li>python</li><li>slick and contemporary</li><li>impressive list of add-ons</li><li>excellent step-by-step tutorials, manuals and a free online book</li><li>impressive client list, starting with (since I bitch about performance throughout this post) Akamai, the CDN provider</li><li>+1 for performance best practices</li><li>-10 for missing demo?</li></ul>Obviously the missing demo didn't count too heavily against Plone, but it might be something that both the evangelism and hosting groups could look into.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img height="1" width="1" src="cid:C8DA38AD-98D7-44F7-8144-1CB04C103D50@home"></div></div><p><a href="http://plonemetrics.blogspot.com/2009/11/packt-feedback.html" id="AppleMailRSSReadMore" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Read more…</a></p></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>