Entries For: September 2007
September 25, 2007
Jon Stahl: Plone Product Developers List: Going Strong!
The Product Developers email list, which was started in early 2007 as an outgrowth of Martin Aspeli's session at Plone Conference 2006, has really blossomed into a vibrant, active community of folks working collaboratively on add-on products for Plone.
It's a tremendous resource if you're developing an add-on product, looking for advice about an existing add-on product, or looking to make suggestions for how you'd like to see an add-on product evolve. I plan to follow this list a LOT more closely from here on out, and I encourage you to as well.
You can subscribe via email or read it on the web via Nabble.
Jon Stahl: Fans of CalendarX Unite: Help Sponsor Plone 3.0 Update!
The amazing and indefatigable Darci Hanning is helping organize a "social source" sponsorship effort to raise $2000 to support Lupa Zurven's work to update CalendarX for Plone 3.0. CalendarX is a widely-used calendaring add-on Product for Plone -- if you'd like to see it updated for Plone 3.0, now's the time to join together with other Plone community members and make it happen.
Lupa's sponsorship goal is $2000. As of this morning, there are $700 in pledges. They're using Fundable.org (a Plone-powered site!), which lets you make a pledge in any amount from $10 on up, and you'll only pay if the $2000 goal is reached. With $1300 to go, we only need another 26 people to pledge $50 each. That's peanuts, especially compared with the number of folks who've benefitted from CalendarX over the years.
This is the funding model we used last year to sponsor a round of work on Ploneboard, and has also helped drive the GetPaid project forward. It's a great way to share the load of sponsoring useful products for which there isn't a single big customer.
I hope you'll join me in sponsoring CalendarX.
Update - Tuesday, 5:30pm PDT: We're now at $950, nearly halfway there!
September 13, 2007
Jon Stahl: Plone Foundation Members: Time To Renew Your Membership!
If you are currently a member of the Plone Foundation, and wish to remain so, you need to renew your membership for 2008. Consider this a gentle reminder.
Plone Foundation membership committee chair Godefroid Chappelle explains:
To the members of the Plone Foundation,
The bylaws of the foundation state that each member needs to renew his membership each year in order to keep it for another year.
The foundation must give a period of thirty days to allow for this renewal.
This period starts at the moment of the publication of this text both on plone.org and on the membership mailing list. It will end on 2007-10-03 at midnight.
Any member that will not have renewed will go to emeritus status. He will need to apply again for membership and go through the application process in order to be full member again.
The way to renew your membership is the following:
- Log in plone.org,
- Find your member object. One way is to use advanced search and to specify your name in the title and "Foundation Member" as content type. Another way is to look in http://plone.org/foundation/members/folder_listing.
- Use the "Renew" transition from the workflow dropdown (menu).
If everything goes well, you will get a message in the view stating "Member renewed for 2008".
If you have any problem, please contact Hanno or myself for help.
Jon Stahl: Annoucning Ploneability Higher Ed
I'm excited to read that the crew at Enfold are organizing Ploneability Higher Ed, a free, one-day event in Houston, Texas, on November 8th that will introduce and showcase Plone for the academic sector.
Ploneability Higher Ed is a one-day conference for college and university Web content managers, developers and site administrators to connect and share success stories involving Plone, the open-source content management system.Among the presenters:
- Alan Runyan, Plone project cofounder, on what’s next in open-source content management
- Kurt Bendl on the University of Louisville’s Plone rollout (more than 150 sites and counting), which has produced benefits for content managers, marketing and IT
- Christian Vinten-Johansen and Mike Halm on Penn State’s WebLion, a customized version of Plone plus consulting, development and training services
- Cameron Cooper on Connexions, the collaborative, Plone-powered course materials repository that was launched at Rice University and has received substantial news media attention
- Josten Ma on how nearly 40 Plone sites and a custom skinning product support the University of Houston’s effort to reach the top tier of U.S. research institutions
Ploneability Higher Ed is free, but seating is limited.
In addition, there will be two related events, on the day before and after.
