Hi Nate, Definitely a +1!
Back in the day we did have this but it quickly fell behind the current Plone releases so there will need to be personnel/volunteers in place to keep this up-to-date but I'm thinking with buildout nowadays things should be a lot simpler. -Tim On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 19:53 -0400, Nate Aune wrote: > I'd like to explore the idea of creating a demo.plone.org site that > hosts the current released version of Plone, and would serve as a > place folks could go to try out Plone *before* downloading it. While > the installers make it very easy to try out Plone, some folks are > hesitant to install new software on their computer, and some IT depts > forbid it. > > The demo.plone.org site would have logins for a standard unprivileged > user, a reviewer and an admin user. It would get cleared out every > night with a fresh Data.fs. This could be done with a simple script > that's executed on a scheduled basis using cron. We could use > something like Amberjack [1] or Flowgram [2] to create an interactive > guided tour to "hold the hand" of new users through the process of > creating new content, reviewing content, administering a Plone site, > etc. > > what do folks think about this idea? I think it would be nice to have > this available to coincide with the launch of the newly redesigned > plone.org website. > > Nate > > [1] http://amberjack.org/ > [2] http://www.flowgram.com/ > _______________________________________________ Evangelism mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
