[Evangelism] plone demo

[Dylan Jay]

Last weekend was the New Zealand pycon where Joel Burton gave a keynote. He also gave a 30min talk on what is Plone. I've been working with Plone for 6 years but I was taken aback by just how impressive Plone is when you really see all the feature back to back presented to you in a well delivered way.

The video's not up yet but it should appear soon [1]

It did make me think however that a demo video based on that talk would work great on the plone site as well being able to be played on a monitor at trade shows. Something 10min long maybe with audio but also text so it could play silent if need be?

[1] http://kiwipycon.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc

Begin forwarded message:

Date: 11 November 2009 9:54:00 PM

Subject: Packt Feedback

Reply-To: Schlepp <nor...@blogger.com>

Source: Planet Plone

Author: Schlepp <nor...@blogger.com>

Stoyan Stefanov, one of Packt's judges, gives a high-level overview of how he saw the non-PHP systems stack up during this year's competition. His evaluationincluded these bullets: 

• python
• slick and contemporary
• impressive list of add-ons
• excellent step-by-step tutorials, manuals and a free online book
• impressive client list, starting with (since I bitch about performance throughout this post) Akamai, the CDN provider
• +1 for performance best practices
• -10 for missing demo?

Obviously the missing demo didn't count too heavily against Plone, but it might be something that both the evangelism and hosting groups could look into.

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