Plone Strategic Planning Summit:
Future Directions of Plone
Nate Aune, Joel Burton, Paul Everitt, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Kurt Bendl
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The Problem
- Want a clear focus on future
- Explaining “what is Plone?”
- Our “big story” for technology
- Our process for getting there
The Solution
- 50 people
- 3 days
- Lots of face-to-face team work
Why Face-to-Face?
- Wanted to move faster than online
- Wanted to promote social bonding
- Wanted to visit California in spring :)
What Happened?
- Stereograms to gather perceptions
- Planned marketing
- “Dotmacracy” to develop projects
Heroes
- John Stahl: organizer and main shaker
- Alexander Limi: our Google insider
- Mark Corum: outside marketing expert
Elevator Pitches
- How do we describe Plone
- “What’s a CMS?’
- “Who is this for?’
- “How is this different than ... ?”
Educational Pitch
Plone is a web collaboration and publishing system
used by researchers, departments, colleges, and universities.
It's already in use by other universities such as
Pennsylvania State University,
Washington State, Rice, ...
Educational Pitch 2
It’s funded through
the efforts of other universities that use Plone
and by developers, and integrators worldwide
who make their living extending and improving the software.
And, it’s backed by the non-profit Plone Foundation.
Educational Pitch 3
Plone is less expensive to deploy as compared to many
other web publishing systems you may have heard about such as
Vignette, Ektron, or TeamSpace
since there are no licencing fees and therefore provides a much lower
cost of entry.
Plone solves a very real problem for Higher Ed,
as it conforms to state and federally mandated guidelines
for accessibility.
Educational Pitch 4
And what best about it is that everyone--from secretaries, to grad
students, to faculty--
can simply login and hit the edit button to make an update to their web site.
It’s really easy to use.
Projects
- Dotmacracy created projects and champions
- Champions move issue forward
- Doesn’t imply they’re doing all the work!
Through-The-Web Content Types
Questions for Audience
- What did we forget about?
- What did we forget about?
- How can you help us get there?