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Jon Stahl described in a blog his vision about directory of Plone powered sites. This motivate me write few words about cmspowered.info
Jon Stahl described deeply what products he'd like to
see on Plone.org for Plone sites directory. I think the Plone sites webpage needs to accomplish two related-but-not-identical objectives:
1) Provide a short listing of “reference” Plone-powered websites — 20 or 30 sites that showcase the very best of what Plone can do, across a wide variety of organizations and site goals. These listings would ideally include fleshed-out case studies on the Plone site.
2) Provide a canonical listing (and count) 0f all Plone-powered sites. This is important to establish Plone’s market/mind share in a crowded CMS marketplace, and to attract developers to the Plone/Zope platform.
Proposal I propose the creation of two new content types for Plone.org:
1) PloneCaseStudy
2) PloneSiteListing
First of all Plone.net will be released soon. It will include vendor listings, promotional information, directory of Plone powered websites. Directory will be collected from XML files offered by Plone vendors. Plone.net is very important for internet marketing. Plone.org is developer oriented website. Plone CMS needs such websites that can answer on questions like:
"Why I need Plone intead of X CMS?"
"Do I really need Plone?"
"What Plone can bring to our NGO?"
"How popular is Plone?"
CMSPowered.info is one of such websites. The main idea is to show
"How cool is Plone" and
"Why I need Plone for content management".
I havn't much time for CMSPowered.info, so it is still not finished. I hope that we (at Quintagroup) will found some time resources to develop several products for CMSPowered.info. Directory of Plone powered websites will be generated manually and automatically. So editor will be able add Plone site and some listings will be generated from XML.
CMSPowered.info has similiar purpose to Plone.net, but it will have another structure and methods of collecting data. I suppose that it is normal situation: more promo website Plone has - more popular it will be.
There is similiar situation with Plone products directory. We have Products on Plone.org and Plone products on Content Management Software Info.
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Yippee!
Posted by
jonstahl
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2005-09-27 04:09 PM
Couldn't be more thrilled to hear this!
