[Plone-conference] Plone promotion media

[Christina McNeill]

Aaron,

Please let us know if/how plone.com helps your "attack" on your CEO =). It
would be helpful to get this kind of feedback so we can keep improving the
site.

As Kim said, since we're a 100% open source community, we don't have the
funds to produce huge marketing campaigns—it's not that we don't care or
don't want to, it's that the majority of our community resources go into
building and improving Plone itself, which should be viewed as a good
thing. But, you could point out our social media activity on Twitter and
Facebook to help show that we're not silent—we're just not obnoxiously loud
=), and to be honest, that's not the nature of Plone anyway.

Best of luck! And please do let us know how it goes.

Christina

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 5:53 AM, T. Kim Nguyen <nguyen at plone.org> wrote:

> Cheering you on :) And wait a few weeks and we will have a gorgeous new
> Plone.org <http://plone.org> too! :)
>
> Are the Hatchd fellows near you? They're in the Plone.com/providers
> <http://plone.com/providers> listing.
>
> Small tidbit perhaps: we successfully launched Plone 5 on time whereas
> another CMS with very deep pockets has had serious delays with their
> release. More money isn't a good predictor!
>
>     Kim
>
>
>
> On Oct 6, 2015, at 3:51 AM, Aaron Williams <diddyfunk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Kim,
>
> Dylan alerted me to Plone.com <http://plone.com> which is a much better
> look for Plone!
>
> I've planned an attack on my CEO based on this info cheers :)
>
> Regards,
> Aaron
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:34 PM, T. Kim Nguyen <nguyen at plone.org> wrote:
>
>> Sorry to hear that, Aaron.
>>
>> Please have a look at Plone.com <http://plone.com>. It is for high level
>> decision makers and people totally new to Plone. It has success stories
>> that highlight how Plone has been deployed.
>>
>> Our marketing budget is very small but has nothing to do with our
>> software quality :)
>>
>> As to whether it's necessary to have local people supporting Plone, I'd
>> say there are many companies and individuals with long histories of
>> developing and supporting Plone projects remotely who would be happy to
>> assist. Many of these are listed on Plone.com <http://plone.com> as
>> well.
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>>     Kim
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 6, 2015, at 1:57 AM, Aaron Williams <diddyfunk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Plone conf,
>>
>> Sorry i cant make it to the Plone conf this year, my CEO has decided "it
>> doesnt fit with the direction we're heading".
>>
>> Which is to say he is looking at other options than Plone due to
>>
>>    1. He perceives little or no media coverage of Plone wins
>>    2. Lack of support people (in Perth, Western Australia)
>>    3. Perception that it's hard to learn ie you can't get contractors
>>
>> Is there any suggestions on how to address these perceptions?
>>
>> We are likely to get .Net or Sharepoint in the medium term to address
>> this which will be a big step backwards as far as i'm concerned as a
>> developer... we have a very customised system maintained and developed by a
>> small team... if we go to a .Net / Sharepoint solution the costs will be
>> huge, change will be cumbersome etc
>>
>> Any Plone wins / marketing i can sling towards the CEO or the rest of the
>> business to keep them onside would be appreciated.
>>
>> Sorry for the cross promo but it's kinda related to our business no
>> longer sending anyone to Plone conf.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Aaron Williams
>>
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