[Plone-com] Plone.com Content - A Request

Rose Pruyne rtp2 at psu.edu
Wed Sep 12 14:57:24 UTC 2012


Thanks for sharing that chatlog, Alex. Others, please don't let the content
"drift" waiting for a rewrite. Please collaborate. Early and often.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Alex Clark <aclark at aclark.net> wrote:

> Hi Rose,
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Rose Pruyne <rtp2 at psu.edu> wrote:
>
>> To everyone who has commented and recommended changes on Plone.com
>> content drafts that I've been working on --  Your feedback is very much
>> appreciated! Your comments are great, and point to a big improvement of the
>> content.
>>
>> My failure is that I am lacking the time each day to sift through the
>> feedback coming in by e-mail and GDoc comments and adjust the text
>> accordingly. I apologize for being a blocker and a bottleneck.
>>
>> So I'm making a request that I hope will move drafts along more
>> efficiently and gain the benefit all of our content specialists'
>> perspectives: Instead of commenting, *do* go ahead and *incorporate your
>> material into the draft*. (If you are already doing that, bless you.)
>>
>> Then, let's agree on a pre-launch *deadline* for concluding the drafting
>> of this content. At that point, those with editorial skills can tidy up the
>> content for style considerations, flow, grammar/spelling/punctuation/etc.,
>> and move this fresh content to the Plone site so it's in place for the
>> unveiling at the Conference. I'm talking about a pre-launch content freeze.
>> Content can be continually improved after the Conference is over.
>>
>> I'm mainly referring to the drafts that I've been working on -- 'what is
>> plone?' and 'why should i choose plone?' -- but we might want to use this
>> 3-step process for all the content: 1. full collaboration (author, don't
>> comment), 2. content freeze and final edit, 3. move content to the site.
>>
>> Or if everyone would prefer to collaborate on the content directly in
>> Plone rather than GDocs, that's a-ok by me.
>>
>
>
> Kudos for the update! I am not editing content nor do I plan to, but I
> know that Armin was concerned about this as well:
>
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>    - http://chat-logs.dcpython.org/day/plone.com/2012-09-11#16.18.26.acsr
>
>
> I would strongly suggest that the content team enforce a content deadline
> like you suggest, at which point the content can be moved from Netsight
> staging to Six Feet Up production. I don't care about GDocs vs. Plone, as
> long as the content ends up in Netsight staging at some point, so it can be
> easily moved to production.
>
> Also, if we don't hear from the Design time, I'm going to revert to using
> the plone.org theme in the meantime, just so we have something to look
> at. I think we should continue to aim to stage content on the netsight
> staging site, then move to Six Feet Up "production" for staging the theme
> (where we can easily pull in theme changes from designers). Actually, maybe
> I can deploy the production site with Martin Aspeli's new themed editor as
> Dylan suggests. Worst case, we can launch with default bootstrap (kidding!)
>
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> Alex
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>> --
>> Rose Pruyne
>> Project Manager
>> WebLion at Penn State
>>
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-- 
Rose Pruyne
Project Manager
WebLion at Penn State
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