[NGO] Re: Request for Discussion: Mailing List Tools

Hugh T. Ranalli hranalli at dotrust.org
Wed Oct 4 20:40:05 UTC 2006


Any idea how one sets up a "Birds of a feather" session? (I told you I'm new
to this). ;-)

Cheers,
Hugh

Steve McMahon wrote:

> Sounds like this would make a great "Birds of a feather" session for
> Seattle; that could naturally lead to a longer evening discussion. Count
> me in.
> 
> Steve McMahon
> 
> Hugh T. Ranalli wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> My name is Hugh Ranalli and I am the technology director for Digital
>> Opportunity Trust, an NGO focused on technology training and capacity
>> building in countries around the world.
>> 
>> We're just rolling out our first version of Plone, and I am very excited
>> about what we can do with it. As others have commented, the Plone
>> community needs a solid discussion forum / mailing list product. To my
>> mind, this is one of the most critical tools to get regular people to
>> interact on collaborative systems such as Plone.
>> 
>> I know that listen is being developed, and the Zope-based GroupServer
>> looks very interesting, although they don't yet have any sort of API for
>> integration. I realise I'm just a fledgling member of the Plone
>> community, but to my mind it makes sense to support and develop one tool.
>> 
>> I don't have large budgets, but what I do have is access to a program at
>> the University of Toronto's computer science department, where students
>> work (approx. 120 hours in total) on a project for a non-profit. The
>> students in this program learn Python, and so they would be naturals for
>> Plone development. I come from a development background, so I would also
>> be willing to work closely with them.
>> 
>> I am going to be at the Plone conference in Seattle, and would love to
>> sit down with anyone else who is interested to discuss how we can
>> collaborate on something the entire community will benefit from (and
>> which is the best direction to go in). I have a couple of other projects
>> I would like to see developed, but this one is foremost on my priority
>> list.
>> 
>> Any takers? Perhaps we can get together one evening.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Hugh






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