Ideas for Lightning Talks

[TJQ]

Wow, great June meeting!
Thanks Dayne for the overview/demo of archGenXml.
and to Dan for snagging the lab facility

Here are some of the ideas for future meeting lightning talks that
folks had last night:

- Amazon Web Services & Plone (TJ)

- Backup strategies for Plone Site (If everyone pitches in ideas, I'll
volunteer to bring it together)

- User Focused tools:
Plone Poll (Dan)
Weather Forcast (Plone 3 implementation by Matt)
Forums
Blogs
Wikis
Content Rating (?)

What else ?

[Rick Casey]

I agree with TJ -- great meeting! An auspicious resurgence of energy for the Plone user group, to be sure.

Though I had to leave early, I really appreciate Dayne's email contribution that captured some the techniques discussed after I left. I am definitely exploring ArchGen for use in my work at IBG, and will review his comments in detail. (Hope this is getting captured in a user group email archive?)

If we can get a bootcamp here in Boulder, I would certainly hope that IBG would support me in attending it.

It's funny, but when Dayne was relating how ArchGenXML is mostly used to generate an initial codebase for a project, with comments in the generated code of "Put your code here", I had a flashback to my early days as a FoxPro developer, which had a very similar product, way back when in ancient history (i.e., the mid-90's)....

Looking forward to learning more from the group!

--Rick

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[Dayne Medlyn]

If we want to focus on showing off and attracting new users, maybe
these make sense as well:

- Install Demo
- Document management process (workflows) demo
- Plone community demo (using Web/IRC/mailing list to get help)
- Plone 3 highlights

If I think of anything else I will send more.

Dayne

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:58 AM, TJQ <tjq...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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[Rick Casey]

These all sound like great topics to me! Thanks much for the offer to do this Dayne...

--Rick

[Dan Timmons]

Hi Everyone,
I would like to go ahead and try to nail down the next(July) meeting.  Can we shoot for June 17th(If I have a deadline it will motivate me to get something done:-) to present to the group. 

Please take a peek at your calendar and let me know if that is bad for you.

Also,
I might have more people within the CU community that will want to come.  Can we plan on the same location at MCDB just in case we can get them go come by to increase participation?  We will provide the food this time.

thanks
Dan

[Dayne Medlyn]

Dan,

I will unfortunately not be there as I have big things happening the
day before. I will be there in spirit though :-). Let me know if
there is anything else I could do to help out.

Dayne

[Dan Timmons]

Dayne,
definitely understand:-)  good luck with the new arrival

we will try to set something up for you for remote involvement so try to keep you in the loop.

sorry group I meant July 17th not June.

[Chris Crownhart]

To all,

TJ, thanks for your summary below. Those are all good ideas.

It was nice to meet everyone at the meeting, and it was exciting to
see such a good turnout.

Here are my thoughts on items to cover:

1. We should regularly focus on new features (in plone 3.x
obviously). This should have interest to both users and developers.
a. Users - for users that attend the meetings, it seems useful to
show off Plone in all it's glory -- how it works with highlighted
features
b. Developers - developers should then be interested in and curious
about what they have to do to implement and customize those features
-- any idea sharing we can do to foster our own community of support
would be of great benefit.

2. An idea that crossed my mind during the last meeting, and maybe
touches on #1 above, would be for volunteers to go around and quickly
show some sites that they are working on or have recently launched
and talk about how the sites work, what features of Plone are used,
and what kind of custom development was performed or required.

3. Showcasing specific development tools, such as buildout or
generic setup is always of great value to me.

See you next month,

Chris

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[Chris Crownhart]

Dan,

I'm pretty sure July 17th will work.  I'll put it in my calendar and hope to see you then.

Thanks for setting all of this up.

Chris

[Dan Timmons]

Chris,
I could not have laid this out any clearer than you did below.

I think if we strive to meet these goals at the meetings we can build a stronger community in the Colorado(Colorado Plone User Group(CPUG)wow I can see t-shirts in the future with that acronym) area and help everyone out.

Matt and I are working on a pretty cool project(will share at the meeting) that we think Libraians/Scientist/Photographers will be interested in.  stand by we should have a finished product by then for all to critique.  We are excited:-)

Dan

[Trey Beck]

Hey guys,

Just to let you know, the reason we originally went with denver-plone as opposed to colorado-plone was simply to keep with the standard set by other user groups (vancouver, seattle, portland, boston, sf, etc.). I'm not opposed to changing "denver" to "colorado", but I don't know that it adds much.

FWIW, those of us in the mountains don't necessarily feel excluded by a denver-centric label.

Thanks,
Trey