[Evangelism] PyCon Japan 2012 and Plone

Tue May 22 21:22:53 UTC 2012

+1

Maybe Mark Corum can post the link to his beer-branded release names 
PLIP (originally, an April Fool's joke) ?  I think it was gathering 
steam as a real PLIP last I looked.

I vote for Plone 5 - Barnstormer  
(http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/5049/13084/?ba=hunteraw ), which 
was my favorite ale at the Bristol Plone conf.  :)

We'd have to also be sure to not have conflicting numbers included in 
release names.  As I recall from my Java days, it was a real mess 
explaining that JDK 2 actually included Java 1.2 or some such mess.

-Ken

On 5/22/12 4:06 PM, Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker wrote:
> Could it also be that Plone has been marketed as "Plone v1, v2, v3, 
> v4" for 10 years and that has very little appeal?
>
> As a marketing-driven company, Apple understood this phenomenon very 
> well and, instead, rolled out "Tiger", "Leopard", "Snow Leopard", 
> "Lion"... unveiling each version as a totally new product. This 
> allowed them to leverage totally different marketing campaigns and 
> keep the public interested.
>
> Can we orchestrate a grand new product launch for Plone 5 under a 
> different marketing name (but keep the Plone name as the umbrella brand)?
>
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> On May 22, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Ken Wasetis [Contextual Corp.] wrote:
>
>> +1 Sounds like a great idea!  Maybe approach the marketing committee 
>> and/or Board?
>>
>> On 5/22/12 2:03 PM, Armin Stroß-Radschinski wrote:
>>> Google Summer of Code supporting Plone may was a good recognition in 
>>> the upcoming professionals area. Timo Stollenwerk and Franco 
>>> Pellegrini are excellent examples what kind of success good newcomer 
>>> support can bring up! We need such successful people talk more about 
>>> their involvement.
>>>
>>> Cab we create a well donated developer contest attracting new guys 
>>> by special topics and attractive winner prizes? Of course! Then the 
>>> celebration of the handing over should be a remarkable media event 
>>> (at least look like!)
>>>
>>> To design and deliver a remarkable award trophy that makes up good 
>>> photos and heavy weight on the desk should be no problem (for me ;-) 
>>> waving! We were running pupil contests with around 5000 participants 
>>> each time for nearly 10 years. The setup is in the drawer!
>>>
>>> Armin
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 22.05.2012 um 19:23 schrieb Maurizio Delmonte:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Matt Hamilton 
>>>> <matth at netsight.co.uk <mailto:matth at netsight.co.uk>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure if it means anything but our company submitted 4 talks 
>>>>> for pyconau this year. The two plone related talks were the two 
>>>>> rejected.
>>>>> It got me to thinking about the plone communities relationship to 
>>>>> the python community.
>>>>> I think open source is spread by fans, people not directly 
>>>>> involved with the software itself. Those fans exist in a much 
>>>>> larger community than plone itself. It makes me think that if the 
>>>>> python community aren't fans of Plone, then where are our fans?
>>>>> Sorry it's a little negative and off topic.
>>>>
>>>> Similar experiences with Europython the past few years. There were 
>>>> a load of Plone talks submitted this year, and the only ones 
>>>> accepted were the ones that did not mention Plone in the title.
>>>>
>>>> actually, I have two talks in Europython this year: one mentions 
>>>> both Plone and Django in the title, the other just declares 
>>>> "professional content management with Python in 2012"..
>>>>
>>>> both the talks are in italian, so good chance are there that they 
>>>> were short in proposals ;)
>>>>
>>>> Nonetheless, Django itself this year had a very low profile 
>>>> presence at Europython (try to search for it here 
>>>> https://ep2012.europython.eu/p3/schedule/ep2012/ and you'll see 
>>>> just 3 talks on Django, then two more, one very tech unrelated and 
>>>> the other from me..)
>>>>
>>>> I believe we need to be present at PyCons as much as we can, to 
>>>> make people aware that Plone is well alive and that plone could 
>>>> serve them well (finally we are made out of Python, aren't we?).
>>>>
>>>> I also believe that Matt & c. are right in saying that we should 
>>>> try to attract devs using other channels, universities being a good 
>>>> alternative to me.
>>>> Let's inspire more people to do this!
>>>>
>>>> Maurizio
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