Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Jul 25th, 2008
Dear Plone community, Here’s a little trial balloon I’d like to float. Potshots welcome. I’ve been thinking for a while that we need more structured, scalable ways to listen to our worldwide user community. In particular, I think we need better ways to listen to them for feature ideas, and better ways to understand which […]
Posted in General on Jul 24th, 2008
We’ve just released Slideshow Folder 4.0, a major upgrade to a product we’ve built to make it easy for folks using Plone to create beautiful animated slideshows in their sites. It’s a “Release Candidate 2″, which means we’ve tested it quite a bit, believe it’s ready for production use, and don’t think it has […]
Posted in General on Jun 13th, 2008
A few random ideas for talks I’d like to see at Plone Conference 2008. In case anybody needs some inspiration. Chime in with your ideas! Name names! Even better, propose one of these talks! (Note: there are probably lots of talks I’d love to see that aren’t on this list, I just couldn’t think of […]
Posted in General on May 27th, 2008
I’m very excited to share the news that Joel Burton will be bringing his Plone Bootcamp classes back to Seattle for the third year. Joel will be offering a repeat performance of his basic week-long “Plone Bootcamp” class (June 16-20) suitable for folks getting started building Plone websites. Assuming his voice doesn’t give out after […]
Posted in General on May 19th, 2008
Have you bought your plane tickets for Plone Symposium New Orleans 2008 yet? Alan Runyan, Toby Roberts and the team at Enfold Systems have put together a fantastic program that includes: 2 days of Joel Burton’s amazing Plone Bootcamp training — pretty much the best way to jumpstart yourself as […]
Posted in General on Apr 18th, 2008
Thanks to PFGCaptchaField by 4Teamwork, it’s now easy to stick basic CAPTCHAs into Plone forms that you’re creating with PloneFormGen. It’s a nice bit of work that takes advantge of Jarn’s underlying collective.captcha product. What I especially like about it is that it makes it possible for non-technical end-users to quickly build forms that can’t […]
Posted in General on Apr 17th, 2008
Alan Runyan, Toby Roberts and the rest of the crew at Enfold are putting on what promises to be another fantastic Plone Sympoisum in New Orleans. They’ve just issued the call for presentations: We are now ready for presentation submissions for the Plone Symposium. The Plone Symposium is heavily focused on technical useful tidbits and best practices […]
Posted in General on Mar 24th, 2008
Plone Sympoisum East 2008 is barely over, but 26 session videos are already up on Plone.tv! I’m watching fellow Seattleite Cris Ewing from University of Washington give his bravura talk about the big, successful rollout of Plone to the 700-person UW Radiology Department. It’s a fantastic case study that would be of interest to anyone in […]
Posted in General on Mar 16th, 2008
Thanks to the WebLion team at Penn State University for releasing CSSManager. CSSManager is an add-on Product for Plone that lets you customize the site logo and various properties of your theme like colors, fonts, etc. through a simple, user-friendly web interface. No CSS knowledge is required, nor any mucking about in the ZMI. Plone “approachability” […]
Posted in General on Mar 12th, 2008
What’s the most exciting feature of Plone 3, according to students in Joel Burton’s “Plone Bootcamps” class this week? Content rules, I was surprised to learn. Discuss.
Posted in General on Mar 8th, 2008
My amazing colleagues here at ONE/Northwest just launched Sightline Daily, a project we’ve been working on for the past few months for our downstairs neighbors at Sightline Institute. (Big props to our friends at Web Collective, too, who contributed a bunch of heavy behind-the-scenes technical lifting, including some last-minute bug fixing!) Sightline Daily covers sustainability news […]
Posted in General on Feb 26th, 2008
A big congratulations to Ricardo Newbery, who’s put in a ton of great work to release CacheFu 1.1.1, which, despite it’s tiny version number increment, is a big leap forward for this must-have Plone add-on product. This is the first Plone 3-ready release. While there’s a lot of discussion about using CacheFu behind a caching proxy […]
Posted in General on Feb 16th, 2008
My good friend Joel Burton is bringing his first Plone Bootcamp to Amsterdam, March 16-22. It’s being organized by the amazing Sisi Nutt and the crew at Friends of the Earth Netherlands, so it will doubtless have a strong NGO slant. Sisi writes: This course is the first public bootcamp to comprehensively cover Plone 3 […]
Posted in General on Feb 11th, 2008
(Sent from a secret undisclosed location near the Pacific Ocean.) Dear Plone, Thank you for traveling from around the world. Thank you for staying awake through your jetlag. Thank you for dreaming big dreams. Thank you for doing the hard work of boiling them down into priorities. Thank you for taking ownership and following up. Thank […]
Posted in General on Feb 3rd, 2008
Nate Aune is trying to raise a few bucks to support a Plone 3-compatible release of Plone4ArtistsVideo. P4A.Video is the glue behind the scenes of his impressive new Plone.tv website and far and away the most impressive video add-on product for Plone. Nate’s over $1200 of the way towards his $2000 goal — pretty respectable. […]
Posted in General on Feb 2nd, 2008
Some not terribly complete thoughts on some ideas for how the Plone community could make it easier for mainstream hosting VPS companies to offer Plone to their customers. The problem: Plone is relatively difficult to host in the most common and inexpensive commodity web hosting accounts. Why? Plone, like Ruby on Rails and other Python frameworks, […]
Thanks to: Tobias Ahlers Yves Moisan Matthew Latterell Patrick Shaw William Murphy Eric Steele Scott Paley Vincenzo Barone Niels […]
Posted in General on Jan 28th, 2008
Thanks to Thomas Zeleny and Tannic, Inc. for becoming the most recent donors to the Plone Strategic Planning Summit. We’re just a few days from the end of our fundraising drive (and the summit itself!), and we’ve reached $3345 toward are goal of $5000 from 21 donors. The Plone Foundation will match donations dollar-for-dollar, so […]
Posted in General on Jan 21st, 2008
Thanks to Pompilio Fanelli and repeat donor Sune Toft/Headnet, we’re now at the 60% mark of the Plone Foundation’s Plone Strategic Planning Summit travel scholarship drive! 17 folks from the Plone community have contributed a total of $3035 — that’s pretty amazing, thanks to all of you who’ve stepped up to the challenge!We’ve […]
Posted in General on Jan 19th, 2008
Denis Mishunov, Totsie Marine and Virginio Fanelli are the latest contributors to the Plone Foundation’s Plone Strategic Planning Summit travel scholarship drive!We’ve now reached 16 contributors and $2615 towards our $5000 goal.Thanks to all of you for making the Plone Strategic Planning Summit possible!
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