Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
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!
Posted in General on Jan 16th, 2008
Thanks to: Jesse Synder Graham Perrin Florian Schulze Jean-Pascal Houde Sune Toft / Headnet For becoming the five most recent sponsors of the Plone Strategic Planning Summit! We’ve now reached 13 donors, and $2115 — which, with the Plone Foundation’s matching funds, [...]
Posted in General on Jan 11th, 2008
Thanks to: Youenn Boussard George Bray Christopher Johnson Aleksandr Vladimirskiy …for becoming the latest supporters of the Plone Foundation’s upcoming Plone Strategic Planning Summit! We’ve raised $1610 of our $5000 goal — not too bad for only four days! And with the Plone Foundation’s [...]
Posted in General on Dec 4th, 2007
Call me crazy, but I just checked out Microsoft’s just-out-of-beta Windows Live Writer offline blogging client, and I gotta tellya, it’s pretty nice. Score one for the kids in Redmond. It’s free and Windows-only (of course). It offers an easy-to-configure, very polished UI for writing and editing blog posts. It handles cut-and-paste from the web and [...]
Posted in General on Nov 17th, 2007
Congratulations to Brian Gershon, Bryan Wilson and the rest of the crew down the hallway at Web Collective on the recent release of their first major Plone add-on product, MetaNav! Commissioned the UW Department of Radiology, MetaNav makes it easy to build complex (or simple!) custom navigation schemes in Plone. There’s a great overview of [...]
Posted in General on Nov 2nd, 2007
I was thrilled to spot Wichert Akkerman’s new product “Feedmixer” (aka “collective.portlet.feedmixer”) in the Collective this evening. As its name (sort of) implies, it’s a Plone 3-style portlet that aggregates RSS feeds. Basically, a modern successor to the venerable CMFSin. Feedmixer is less than 20 hours old, and hasn’t been formally released [...]
Posted in General on Nov 2nd, 2007
Dear Plone add-on product developers: Buildout is cool. Buildout is great. Not everyone uses it yet. Please: remember to make it easy for folks to install your products without buildout, and provide clear directions for doing so! It’s hard for us to use your products if it’s not easy for us to try them out.
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2007
David Eaves thinks that community leadership is the core, make-or-break competency of an open-source software project. I agree. He shares a story that illustrates a pattern I’ve rarely seen in the Plone community, and hope to continue not seeing. One of the key ideas I’m interested in pushing is how “openâ€? open source communities are - [...]
Posted in General on Oct 29th, 2007
Thanks to some nice work by Vincenzo Barone and Christian Scholz, the slide decks from Plone Conference 2007 are now online at Slideshare.net. Not only does this provide a nifty platform for viewing the slides, but you can also easily embed them in blog posts. Like this: My presentation, called “Best. Plone. Ever!” about [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2007
Skimming through the recent changes in the Plone Collective, I was excited to see that Reinout van Rees appears to be tackling the task of updating PloneFlashUpload for Plone 3.0. I’ve played around with PloneFlashUpload a bit, and it’s a really handy utility for letting users upload multiple content objects in one fell swoop. It’s [...]
Posted in General on Oct 22nd, 2007
Now that I’ve had a chance to recover from jetlag and get back up to speed at work, I thought I’d take a few moments to reflect on Plone Conference 2007, held October 8-12 in Naples, Italy. Vincenzo Barone and the crew from Abstract Open Solutions were wonderful hosts. The venue was great, internet access was [...]
Posted in General on Oct 12th, 2007
I’m thrilled, humbled and honored to have been elected to the Plone Foundation board of directors! I’ll be joining an amazing team of people, including: Nate Aune Geir Bækholt Joel Burton Darci Hanning Alex Limi [...]
Posted in General on Oct 12th, 2007
Tom Moroz, Open Society Instiute Intro by Alan Runyan: the future of open source software looks very much like the path that nonprofits and civil society organizations have blazed. Heard a lot about Seattle 2006 conference and the strong community. At first I wondered what the connection between open society and open source was, but the more I’ve [...]
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