[Plone-com] Plone.com restart

Tue Jun 26 21:19:16 UTC 2012

I am in too

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On Jun 26, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Alex Clark <aclark at aclark.net> wrote:

> Hi,
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> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Ken Wasetis [Contextual Corp.] <ken.wasetis at contextualcorp.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.)
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
> Ken
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> I'm available to help develop/deploy on to community infrastructure, if need be.
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> Alex
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> 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 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.
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>> 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:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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!
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>> That's all for now… but keep eyes peeled for more messages!
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>> -Matt
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