Hi gnome-web,
Just wanted to send a short introductory message and congratulate you on
choosing Plone for your new web project.
I'm Alexander Limi, one of the co-founders of the Plone project — and I
have also worked a brief stint for Canonical (who employs a lot of GNOME
people). My company Plone Solutions is responsible for the multilingual
component in Plone called LinguaPlone. I also recently accepted a position
at Google as a User Interface Designer, starting later this month.
In any case, I wanted to say that we'll do our best to guide you, help out
with conceptual questions, and hopefully a little bit on the
implementation front too (but I don't want to become a bottleneck — I have
an open source project to run — so I won't promise any work personally
outside of the guidance :).
I see that David Convent has already offered to assist you on the theming
part, David is a long-time contributor to Plone, and is a dependable and
talented guy who can be trusted with Plone decisions and advice. Martin
Aspeli is another person you'll probably see chiming in here, he's also a
respected and very skilled coder and community organizer.
I think the most value we can give you is some experience in what works
and what doesn't, how to approach various deliverables (like scaling down
the interface to fit your use case). Plone can be incredibly complex and
confusing in the start, and I hope we can accelerate your understanding
and help make Plone into the tool you need for your website needs.
Another thing that I believe is of great value is to help you avoid badly
implemented add-ons (or "products" in Plone-speak). There is a significant
number of add-on products out there (over 500 at last count), and a lot of
them are not implemented with maintainability, extensibility or
scalability in mind.
Later on, we should be able to give some advice on performance and
caching, which is Plone's achilles heel if not set up properly. Plone does
a lot out-of-the-box, and needs an efficient cache system in front, as
well as proper setup on the server to give you the performance you expect.
Luckily, we have a lot of experience in doing that too. :)
I'll stop here, I'm sure we'll get into the details later. I just want you
to know that we're out there, and will do whatever we can to help you in
the process of building your new web site. Thanks for the vote of
confidence in choosing Plone, let's make sure you get what you want and
need!
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Alexander Limi · Chief Architect · Plone Solutions · Norway
Consulting · Training · Development · http://www.plonesolutions.com
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Plone Co-Founder · http://plone.org · Connecting Content
Plone Foundation · http://plone.org/foundation · Protecting Plone
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