[Plone-com] Someone needs to step up

Alex Clark aclark at aclark.net
Tue Sep 4 19:45:36 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Matt Hamilton <matth at netsight.co.uk> wrote:

> Guys,
>   This is awesome! I sent the email this morning from a train on the way
> to spend a day on-site with a client, and check email on way home to see
> lots and lots of discussion and people stepping up to do stuff. This is
> great!
>
> I have a few bits of further information and some comments to throw in the
> mix:
>
> 1) Yes as you found there is a staging site up at
> http://plonecom.netsightdev.co.uk this is based on a buildout and package
> developed by Chrissy as Six Feet Up, and the code is in github:
>
> https://github.com/cdw9/plonecom-buildout
> https://github.com/cdw9/plonecom.theme
>


Can these be moved to the plone organization?



>
> please do any work in this package and then I can easily put it on the
> staging site. I'm happy to keep hosting the staging site. If people need
> accounts on this plone site let me know and I can add you, or bug someone
> in IRC whom I've already given accounts to.
>


Can we have shell access? Where is the production site going to go?


>
> 2) Cat herding: Several people have offered, that is great. My only
> comment is this: Derek, thank you for offering too, but my gut feeling is
> we need someone who is better known in the community as a whole in order to
> get this to work in the time we have. You have fantastic input to
> contribute as a high-level decision maker and user of Plone, but I think
> the leading/organisation would be better handled by someone who knows
> others in the community more and a better chance of prodding people to do
> stuff.
>
> 3) Docs and stuff that exists. There is a Google Docs collection of things
> we have already. It is not much, but it is a start:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B1dT-PKbh4GJeG9GTklRLXpTZS1QWHZtRlU5VzMtQQ/edit
>
> I can add people if you let me know your Google usernames. Rose I have
> just added you.
>
> 4) André / TV1: Awesome! Go go go!
>
> Just to re-iterate. The goals of this site is to produce something
> *compact* and easy for us to keep up to date, maintain, and eventually
> translate. It is meant as a clear *What is Plone?"* and *Why Plone?* to
> high level decision makers. It will free up some pressure from plone.orgso that we can be a bit more ruthless with refactoring that. Mark Corum ran
> a BoF session at the Plone Conference in San Francisco which talked about
> Plone.com. I wasn't able to attend unfortunately, but hopefully someone
> on here did and maybe has some note to share as what might have been
> discussed, but the original vision from him, which explains it best, is in
> the Google Docs folder.
>
> -Matt
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