[Plone-com] Plone.com restart

Thu Jun 14 15:03:43 UTC 2012

Hi Matt,

I'm (still) in.  I already have access to the feature list that Kim 
shared and the top-sites list that Mark shared to me and have made some 
updates there, but not in the last couple of weeks.  We definitely need 
to pare things down to a focused message for the initial visit to the 
site by evaluators/decision-makers (than the long list we have); site 
visitors can then drill down further to some, more lengthy list of 
features with descriptions, I'm thinking.

While (or whilst ;) ) we might not get a lot of CIO contribution, if we 
solicit them (from our current client base), I think that there will be 
some C-level folks (perhaps not necessarily CIOs) who want to help more 
than you might imagine.  We've had numerous partners over the years who 
have had a hard time pulling together good marketing materials to help 
'sell Plone' as the CMS solution for combined design/CMS/integration 
efforts we've submitted bids on.  These people desperately want to be 
able to point to a Plone.com type marketing site that has features, case 
studies, portfolio, find-an-integrator, etc. as its main navigation 
tabs, as any commercial CMS or CMS integrator would have.  I know of at 
least a couple director-or-C-level people who would be interesting in 
helping, if we asked, and I suspect others on this list do as well.

If nothing else, once we have our 'full' feature list (before we trim it 
down), we could ask for our business partners (those out there trying to 
look really smart by pushing Plone into their client projects) to review 
the list and provide feedback.  That way, the 'heavy' lifting is done 
for them - they don't have to come up with a complete list on their own 
or spend a lot of time - but they're likely to point out the 2-3 things 
they don't see on the list that are really important to them (especially 
important if they are non-programmers; if they see requirements more 
from the business side of things, as they normally do.)

And if we want their participation, we can either email the draft/full 
list to them to get their input manually, or we could put together a 
surveymonkey survey for them to complete (short one) that captures there 
input in one place.

Thanks,
Ken

On 6/13/12 11:22 AM, Matt Hamilton wrote:
> Dear All,
>   Sorry this has taken its time, but we are now looking to try and 
> re-invigorate the plone.com <http://plone.com> development process. As 
> you saw in his last email to this list, Mark Corum has now stepped 
> down as lead of the project. I am now looking at see if we can find 
> someone else to help lead this effort, or if we can do it as a group.
>
> A very brief summary of what the current status is, and what we need 
> to do. I'm going to expand on this in the next few days:
>
> We have a Google Docs folder that I can share with whomever wants to 
> get involved. This contains a few bits so far, mainly the original 
> vision document by Mark.
>
> The first steps are to get together a list of what needs to be done, 
> and we can then start to assign tasks out to people.
>
> I am also going to set up a private Plone instance somewhere so we 
> have somewhere to start putting content in. At the moment there is no 
> design concept for the site, this is something we need to get someone 
> to do.
>
> One of the core pieces of content is the Plone 4 feature list. The 
> goal here is to be a list for decision makers of what makes Plone so 
> good. The problem we have is trying to construct this list from a 
> decision maker point of view, not a community member or developer 
> point of view. Whilst I'd love to have a bunch of CIOs and the likes 
> come up with a list, I just don't think this is practical. There is 
> currently a list created at Plone Open Garden in Sorrento, and an 
> independent list created at Plone Symposium East. One of the tasks 
> will be to reconcile these two lists and pick a 'top 20' from them.
>
> So can all those who want to be involved in the process and think they 
> have some time to commit to taking on some of the tasks once we get 
> them organised please speak up now!
>
> That's all for now... but keep eyes peeled for more messages!
>
> -Matt
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Ken Wasetis

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