Plone Conference 2005 in Vienna, testimonials and Photos.
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What people say about Plone Conference 2005 in Vienna.
John Dehlin
I cannot adequately express how thoroughly I enjoyed meeting you all at the Plone conference this week in Vienna. As Imentioned to some of you, after 7 years at Microsoft, I was a bit skeptical a year ago when my colleagues told me that they were to build eduCommons on Plone, Zope and Python.
Well, if I ever had any doubts, after this week, they are now vapor. What a beautiful and vibrant community you have developed. I truly hope this is not my last Plone conference. You have all been so incredibly gracious....and you folks at Blue Dynamics are amazing. Thank you for hosting such a delightful event.
Walter Ludwick
Meeting in Vienna was a real pleasure in numerous ways - one of them being to see this community so well-organized about
the priority of ensuring the Future Of Plone, and taking more professional/pragmatic approach to marketing it henceforth.
I've got to get up to speed on all the good stuff that's been done to date, esp that which arose out of New Orleans
symposium (/me scours list for mention of Peronal Ad campaign discussed), but this is just to give pointage to that
reference i made concerning Product Vision Statement (f.k.a. Unique Selling Proposition, back in the day ;-).
Sangeetha Prithviraj
The 2005 Plone conference was very interesting and educational with a lot of good energy and comments on GoldEgg. The Goldegg initiative was mentioned in all the key notes delivered by Alan Runyan(Plone), Jim Fulton(Zope3) and Tres Seaver(CMF).
It was a great success. After the conference several of the key developers then went on to the Castle Sprint at the Goldegg castle in Austria. Thanks to Phillip for his incredible hospitality! By providing with this incredible environment, our work is that much better.
Paul Everitt
The people, the speakers, the organization, the venue, and the tone all added up to a really special experience. This conference had a tangible, gratifying vibe that seemed to put a sublime smile on everybody's face.
Tom Lazar
- Joel Burton's talk on Best Practices was very concise and practical, I was, however surprised at how much of the stuff I already knew and practiced myself until it hit me: Andi had just visited last year's Plone Conference just prior to him and I collaborating on the DirecType site during which he had infused me with those very practices. Looking back from this perspective I'm really impressed with how Andi picked this stuff up so fast and passed it on - at the time I had the impression that he had been doing it like that for years ;-) The one thing from Burt's talk that was new to me and might prove really useful was his plug for WingIDE as a debugging tool. I'm downloading the free trial, as I'm writing this and will report back once I've taken it for a spin.
- The Apple Hardware percentage here is really remarkable. The best thing about it (to me) is that the Mac users here are usually not the typical Mac User but in most cases (so I assume) converted Linux users and it's quite refreshing to see Macs being used in a UNIX way rather than just as a Web-, Office- and Graphicsplatform.
- If you leave the (new) default behaviour of Plone 2.1 to not enabling editing of short names off it will rename the (initially cryptic) short name to a websafe version of the object's Title - neat! (This makes especially for very "pretty" multilingual URLs).
- ATCT have become ridiculously rich and comfortable. Martin Aspeli's tutorial had me positively drooling! In case you're a Plone Developer/User and haven't seen his presentation - I do realize, that some of the readers of this blog are actually not at the conference ;-) you owe it to yourself to check out his RichDocument tutorial at plone.org which he based his talk on.
Jerry McRea is a mind reader and wrote a tool for managing and creating Zope instances pretty much precisely to my specifications without me ever having told anybody ;-) One thing however is crucially absent: a script-based viable backup strategy. But at least now I have a good base onto which to add such a strategy ;-)
Opera seems to be a viable alternative for my mail- and news requirements. Who'd've thunk it? After a 15 minute lunchtable evangelism session by limi I'm actually going to give it a try. (According to rumours, Opera also contains a web browser).
LinguaPlone and Members folders don't mix. You might want to consider abandoning Members folders in any Plone instance that you run with LP - most use cases of Plone don't really call for those folders anyway.
PloneOntology could be really interesting for managing the articles on ds.ccc.de - once I've actually got it up and running ;-)
- educ()ommons is also something to watch out for. "An OpenCourseWare Management System designed specifically to support OpenCourseWare projects like MIT OCW and USU OCW". To quote John Dehlin (he's here at the conference): "it's all about sharing university learning materials with the world--openly, and freely (think people in India, or China, or South America, or even the rural UK, having access to learning materials never before possible)". A commendable effort - If you're in education check it out
- I met Florian Schulz and he explained to me the workings of the new Ressource Registry and I had a very con- and instructive chat with Geir Bækholt (author of LinguaPlone) and will now finally move ahead and make my own site multilingual using his advice.
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