[Setup] Re: Will migration ever work?

[alan runyan]

> > How about simply *paying* a company to do the migration for you? 
> > Hopefully the company you would pay would be involved with Plone 
> > enough to fix this error from happening and the next maintenance 
> > release of Plone 2.1.2 would have this fixed?
> > 
> > 
> Alan,
>    Fair suggestion, and if we were a commercial organisation, 
> that would be a good idea. Also if a private company made 
> money from Plone, ethically speaking they ought to do this to 
> support your efforts. I appreciate that the reason for such 
> problems with Plone is largely lack of resources / funding. 
> Unfortunately, like many UK universities, we are totally 
> underfunded too and do not have this as an option. What we 
> can offer to the Plone community is to answer questions on 
> the newsgroups, write some documents, perhaps release a 
> Product if we produce something generic enough that others 
> may use it. If I ever catch sight of some funding that could 
> be justified to be spent on Plone, I shall see what I can do. :-)
>    At the moment, I am just trying to get Plone 2.1 to work 
> and also learning more about Plone, then I can think about 
> doing some of these things.
>    Hope that sounds like a reasonable answer....

It's a very reasonable answer.  Another way of getting 'free consulting' is
organizing Plone/Python User Groups in your town.  Plone/Zope are so popular
nowadays you can probably convince a guru to come down to your PUG and then
you can ask him how to resolve the issue.  I know in the .uk there are quite
a few companies; even if you cant give them $$ you can give them a reference
which would be a incentive for some of these companies!  Get creative.  Get
on the phone.  Get your problem solved.

Alan