[NGO] Re: FW: Day of Trainings added to AdvocacyDev III

Jon Stahl jon at onenw.org
Tue Aug 1 16:28:13 UTC 2006


Anna-

Excellent!  I'm so glad that you are there so that you and Rob can cover
each other's backs against the Drupal-crazed hordes. ;-)

Seriously, we're all eager to hear your report.  I've heard (third-hand)
that you're doing some neat stuff. 

best,
jon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ngo-bounces at lists.plone.org 
> [mailto:ngo-bounces at lists.plone.org] On Behalf Of Anna
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:06 AM
> To: A list for NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) using Plone.
> Subject: Re: [NGO] Re: FW: Day of Trainings added to AdvocacyDev III
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm not sure if I actually introduced myself on this list 
> after all. I'm Anna Helme from EngageMedia in Melbourne 
> Australia. We're developing multimedia products for Plone and 
> specifically our Plone site for distribution of social 
> justice and environmental video from Australia, the Pacific 
> and South-East Asia. We're in development, and looking to 
> release a beta soon.
> 
> http://www.engagemedia.org is our live site, not open to 
> video publishing at this stage, and with limited functionality.
> 
> I'm at Advocacy Dev, where Rob Miller and I are both 
> "speed-geeking"  - where we'll demo our Plone sites in 4 
> minutes to the rest of the group, on a rotational basis. So 
> people will get a feel for Plone here. Already the method for 
> choosing a CMS for your advocacy-based non-profit has turned 
> up in conversation, hopefully we'll be able to contribute to 
> that discussion.
> 
> Also the idea of a caged death-match between Drupal and Plone 
> (and Joomla and RoR) at Advocacy Dev and other meetings has 
> been suggested!!
> I'll nominate Rob for that :) I can lend him my 
> recently-acquired Mexican wrestling mask, that can be my contribution.
> 
> There is a wiki up here, it will fill out over the next few 
> days of the
> conference:
> 
> http://advocacydev.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Main_Page
> 
> I'll report back to this list when I get the chance, probably 
> when I get back to Australia in a couple of weeks.
> 
> Cheers,
> Anna
> 
> Rob Miller wrote:
> > Jon Stahl wrote:
> >> It is too bad that nobody in the Bay Area Plone community 
> was able to 
> >> represent Plone here.   As you can see, Drupal, Joomla and 
> even RoR 
> >> are all participating -- and AdvocacyDev draws in some of 
> the leading 
> >> nonprofit web development techies.
> >>  
> >> A missed outreach opportunity, for sure.
> >
> > i will actually be at this conference, as will (i'm told) 
> anna helme 
> > from engage media in australia, who usually follows this 
> list but is 
> > currently traveling.  i'm leaning on a few other bay area 
> plonistas to 
> > at least show up to the monday evening bbq.  it's not as nice as 
> > having a full training session in the conference, but at 
> least we'll 
> > be there.
> >
> > hopefully we'll have something together for next year.  :-).
> >
> > -r
> >
> >
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