Re: [Evangelism] Re: WPD T-shirts

2010-01-20 Thread Donna Snow
+1 here too On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Roberto Allende wrote: > Roberto Allende wrote: > >> Hello >> >> Last year, Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker and people from SFU made t-shirts to >> promote WPD at Pycon and we would like the experience: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/7329...@n04/3749599357/

Re: [Evangelism] Power to the people: Plone on NASes!

2009-12-02 Thread Donna Snow
On that front we were discussing getting a vm image created (for VMware and VirtualBox) so people could try it already setup. Not sure how far we got with that. Best Regards, Donna 'SnowWrite' Snow Office Manager, Hacker Dojo Owner, C2E Training c2etraining.com illuminating your path to Open Sour

Re: [Evangelism] Plone not listed on sixrevisions.com post "How to Evaluate What CMS to Use"

2009-11-26 Thread Donna Snow
Plone IS listed here.. http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/10-promising-content-management-systems/ Donna 'SnowWrite' Snow Office Manager, Hacker Dojo hackerdojo.com Owner, C2E Training illuminating your path to Open Source c2etraining.com On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Nate Aune wrote:

Re: [Evangelism] Plone not listed on sixrevisions.com post "How to Evaluate What CMS to Use"

2009-11-26 Thread Donna Snow
Plone IS listed here.. http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/10-promising-content-management-systems/ Donna 'SnowWrite' Snow Office Manager, Hacker Dojo hackerdojo.com Owner, C2E Training illuminating your path to Open Source c2etraining.com On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Nate Aune wrote:

Re: [Evangelism] The State of Drupal

2009-11-22 Thread Donna Snow
Great write up Steve! Thanks for the information. At the Hacker Dojo where I volunteer there are a bunch of people working with Drupal and it still leads in popularity. This answers some very basic questions. Best Regards, Donna 'SnowWrite' Snow Office Manager, Hacker Dojo Owner, C2E Training ill

[Evangelism] Open Source World

2009-08-05 Thread Donna Snow
Hi guys, Open Source World in San Fran just around the corner. Who has been coordinating? Need someone to help (wo)man the booth? I'm planning on going myself but if you guys have it covered no problem I'll just go for fun. Donna M Snow ___ Evangelism

Re: [Evangelism] Re: Re: Plone Messaging

2009-05-09 Thread Donna Snow
<.snip> One thing we could probably do better is to communicate this outwards. There's been a resurgence of interest from the press in Plone lately, so I'm hoping to get this stuff published in publications outside of just the Ploniverse too. <./snip> +1 This is improving with heavy involvement by

Re: [Evangelism] Plone at Internet World Expo, London

2009-05-04 Thread Donna Snow
Excellent write up Matt! Congratulations on a successful representation of Plone. I'm also glad to see much more activity on the marketing front for Plone! One day, Plone will be the first thing people think about when asked to list the best community CMS! Donna Snow On Mon, May 4, 2009

Re: [Evangelism] report of the Plone Foundation booth at NTEN NTC conference in San Francisco

2009-04-30 Thread Donna Snow
Hi, Congratulations on the great turnout! That's exciting to hear. I help out at the Open Source Wold conference (formerly Linux World) conference every year (I think I missed one year due to illness) I made these same suggestions last year after our experience at Linux World. Post 1: http://sn

Re: [Evangelism] Re: "Top 15 Questions..." Final Draft

2009-04-16 Thread Donna Snow
ses illuminating your path to Open Source http://www.csquaredtech.com On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Nate Aune wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Chris Barnes wrote: > >> Donna Snow wrote: >> >>> Why not have an "install fest" of some sort to see

Re: [Evangelism] Re: "Top 15 Questions..." Final Draft

2009-04-16 Thread Donna Snow
This has been an interesting thread to follow, and I'll tell you why. At the Summit in Feb 2008, I sat in front of 50 plus people and essentially said, "Plone is too hard" I'm not lazy, and I'm not stupid (my associates are not stupid either :-)) That said it doesn't matter whether I'm leading a t

Re: [Evangelism] Use gigblastr to publicize your WPD event

2009-04-15 Thread Donna Snow
Thank You Nate I just figured that out :-) Great service btw, I just hadn't tried it yet. Everything else went smoothly and I should be able to add stuff now that I added my venue, maybe in the meantime a note at the bottom that says (if your venue is unrecognized please add it to upcoming and eve

Re: [Evangelism] Use gigblastr to publicize your WPD event

2009-04-15 Thread Donna Snow
Nate, I've heard you talk about gigblastr before and I'm finally getting around to trying it. I'm holding an Open Door event for next week at my office which is not a recognized venue I guess. So how do I get around the "I can't find your venue"? Donna On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Nate Aune

Re: [Evangelism] Re: "Top 15 Questions..." Final Draft

2009-04-11 Thread Donna Snow
Thank you so much for working on this document. I missed last Friday's Plone Tune-up, I had a training session and I didn't hear about Thursday's "session" until the day after ( I would have attended). I realize that was a technical (email) issue and unavoidable. Everything looks fantastic and I'm

Re: [Evangelism] Conference kit for hosting a Plone booth

2009-04-07 Thread Donna Snow
+110 for print-on-demand On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Nate Aune wrote: > There have been discussions on the Plone marketing committee list and > elsewhere about putting together a conference kit that includes: > > - banner with Plone logo > - brochures and "15 Questions about Plone" FAQ > - s

Re: [Evangelism] WPD at Facebook

2009-03-31 Thread Donna Snow
I'll do it Roberto I'm in there all the time anyway. Donna 2009/3/31 Roberto Allende > Hello > > We need a WPD EVENT or Group at Facebook > > Any volunteer to set it up ? > > Kind Regards > r. > > -- > http://robertoallende.com > > > ___ > Evangelism

Re: [Evangelism] WPD chat#1

2009-01-21 Thread Donna Snow
Hi, I'll be there for the irc chat. I'd like to find out which format worked for various events and how people drew more attendees. Donna "SnowWrite" Snow On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Karl Horak wrote: > > Alas, my day-job doesn't permit IRC use, but feel free to ping me with > e-mail > d

Re: [Evangelism] Re: WPD 2009 Dates

2008-12-31 Thread Donna Snow
Hi Roberto, I'm in working on my training class event for plone.org, do you want me to add the WPD 2009 info?? Donna On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Roberto Allende wrote: > Roberto Allende escribió: > > >> April 22nd, Wednesday >> >> > Great!, we've a date for WPD2009. As soon we have the im

Re: [Evangelism] Re: April 26, 2009 WPD ??

2008-12-23 Thread Donna Snow
+1 On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Roberto Allende wrote: > Donna Snow escribió: > >> I still think April 29,2009 is a good date (sorry for original mix-up). >> So what do you say? 04/29/09 (Wednesday) ?? Or 05/01/09 (Friday)?? >> >> Donna >> >

Re: [Evangelism] Re: Re: April 26, 2009 WPD ??

2008-12-23 Thread Donna Snow
I still think April 29,2009 is a good date (sorry for original mix-up). So what do you say? 04/29/09 (Wednesday) ?? Or 05/01/09 (Friday)?? Donna On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Alexander Limi wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:19:58 -0800, Calvin Hendryx-Parker < > cal...@sixfeetup.com> wrot

[Evangelism] April 26, 2009 WPD ??

2008-12-21 Thread Donna Snow
OK guys I did a little digging and it looks like the May 27th date conflicts with Penn State's Symposium http://weblion.psu.edu/events/plone-symposium-east-2009 So how about we vote on the proposed April 28,2009?? So if you agree on April 28, 2009 (a Wednesday) then please respond to this thread

Re: [Evangelism] Re: World Plone Day 2009

2008-12-18 Thread Donna Snow
think May 29th is a Jewish holiday? Can someone confirm? I'm assuming we want to stick with Friday (though Wednesday might be better as it is mid-week) Donna M Snow On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Chris Barnes wrote: > Donna Snow wrote: > >> I would say April/May would be go

Re: [Evangelism] Re: World Plone Day 2009

2008-12-17 Thread Donna Snow
oward May actually. Donna Snow On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Ross Patterson wrote: > Chris Calloway writes: > > > On 12/16/2008 3:43 PM, Roberto Allende wrote: > >> I believe it is a good idea to keep it one month after PC, but before > >> december. > &g

Re: [Evangelism] Re: Lessons learned from the first World Plone Day

2008-11-12 Thread Donna Snow
Hi Chris, Thank you so much for taking the time to write up your impressions. As a result of our very small but information session in Silicon Valley I've decided that next year we break the "day" up into tracks so that end users and developers alike get some benefit out of it. A time to mingle an

[Evangelism] Postmortem for WPD

2008-11-08 Thread Donna Snow
Do we want to schedule a chat session for figuring out what we can do differently for next year? If you have data you want me to capture in a survey or a spreadsheet please feel free to send my way. We have a bunch of blog posts and some numbers floating around the web, let's gather them all in o

[Evangelism] Following LinkedIn forums

2008-11-08 Thread Donna Snow
I'm on a mission it seems :-) fire under my butt to get the word out about Plone (especially locally) I went looking on some of the forums for groups I've joined on LinkedIn and found this question and responded. http://tinyurl.com/5hzpv3 Let's keep our eyes out for opportunities to talk about P

Re: [Evangelism] Re: Lessons learned from the first World Plone Day

2008-11-08 Thread Donna Snow
Hi, Turnout in Sunnyvale, California was low, but I still consider the event a success. We had myself, Ross Patterson (local plonista), Glen Jarvis (new to Plone but not new to Python) and 3 other guys (so 5 people other than myself). The event was expensive for me (nearly $1,000 when all was sai

[Evangelism] Link to World Plone Day survey

2008-11-06 Thread Donna Snow
Hi, Here is a survey I started? Do the questions sound about right? I'm in the process of creating a "paper" version on card stock for tomorrow. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=4ta5MXApxOSvfwxcEwA8dA_3d_3d Best Regards, Donna M Snow, Principal C Squared Enterprises illuminating your path t

Re: [Evangelism] Silicon Valley (Sunnyvale): WPD Agenda

2008-11-06 Thread Donna Snow
Hi, I've only got about 4 signed up on Survey Monkey as of now, but we'll see as the day wears on. As I'm doing this in an technology "incubator", good chance others will be dropping by to see what is going on (especially since Plug and Play Tech Center thrives on Open Source related startups) My

Re: [Evangelism] Howto: video broadcasting of your World Plone Day event

2008-11-06 Thread Donna Snow
HI, I've added a "Sunnyvale, CA - World Plone Day 2008" stream. Can you partner me? I'm not sure how successful I'll be tomorrow but I'll give it a try. Donna On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Tim Knapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nate, > > One other thing - I'm on (k)ubuntu and don't think flas

Re: [Evangelism] Article up on Digg, give it a thumbs up!

2008-11-06 Thread Donna Snow
sorry I'm a spelling Nazi, packt is spelled with a c :-) Donna 2008/11/6 Gerry Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > http://digg.com/software/On_World_Plone_Day_10_Reasons_to_Consider_Plone_CMS > > -- > blog: http://gerrykirk.net > daily musings at http://twitter.com/gerrykirk > > ___

Re: [Evangelism] The FAQ for WPD needs cleaning up

2008-11-05 Thread Donna Snow
page on openplans? Ok, I've already done that: > http://www.openplans.org/projects/plone-marketing/wpd-online-promotion/ > > Did Joel on Software say something about Plone? I couldn't find it. > > - Gerry > > 2008/11/5 Donna Snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >&

[Evangelism] The FAQ for WPD needs cleaning up

2008-11-05 Thread Donna Snow
I'll try to do this today. There are some grammar and spelling errors in the FAQ that need a quick cleanup. I'm also posting wherever I can. I added World Plone Day to reddit (for Joel on Software) we will see where that goes. Donna ___ Evangelism maili

Re: [Evangelism] WPD online promo update

2008-11-05 Thread Donna Snow
OK sorry, saw your list :-) Possible Bloggers Seth Godin Joel on Software (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/EmailtheAuthor.html) Rick Scoble I'm digging through my stuff to see who would be good bloggers to approach. Donna 2008/11/5 Gerry Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A few updates, > >- world

Re: [Evangelism] Soliciting some measurable feedback from WPD attendees

2008-11-03 Thread Donna Snow
wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 16:09 -0800, Donna Snow wrote: > > Do we want to add a separate WPD survey and request that users fill it > > out? OR we can ask them at the session and input the information? > > I was thinking at the event would be easiest and a paper-based one

Re: [Evangelism] Soliciting some measurable feedback from WPD attendees

2008-11-03 Thread Donna Snow
x27;t have the time to input them you can mail/fax/scan them to me.. I can input the data. Donna On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Tim Knapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 12:58 -0800, Donna Snow wrote: > > Jon Stahl and team are using Survey Monkey and I

Re: [Evangelism] Soliciting some measurable feedback from WPD attendees

2008-11-03 Thread Donna Snow
Jon Stahl and team are using Survey Monkey and I have a Survey Monkey rsvp too. Maybe we add some questions to the registration? Donna 2008/11/2 Gerry Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hey Tim, > > Another approach is to get people to register in some way so conversations > can continue beyond WPD. Per

[Evangelism] Issue with sending google books

2008-10-31 Thread Donna Snow
Hi, I've got everyone's packages with Google notebooks still sitting here (packed up and ready to go). There is no way to send to a "third-party" without a UPS account number from the receiver. Please create an account (if you don't have one already) and send me the UPS account number so I can ge

[Evangelism] follow up to Pycon mention in last post

2008-10-19 Thread Donna Snow
Here is info on PyCon http://us.pycon.org/2009/tutorials/proposals/ There was specific requests for Plone and Zope. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2007/Feedback/TutorialIdeas I'm planning on submitting a tutorial for Plone. Best Regards, Donna M Snow, Principal C Squared Enterprises illumina

Re: [Evangelism] OSCON 2009 - July 20-24, 2009 in San Francisco, CA

2008-10-19 Thread Donna Snow
We were actually planning on participating and helping to run a booth. We are in San Jose. I'm also planning on submitting a presentation for Plone (PyCon is also coming up as well and the deadline is end of October for submissions, I think) Best Regards, Donna M. Snow,Principal C Squared Enterpri

Re: [Evangelism] Plone swag

2008-10-17 Thread Donna Snow
Drupal has "elevator pitches" which is great! I know we did some at the summit, do we still have access to those elevator pitches? I love the six feet up buildout cheat sheet! What an awesome idea. Donna On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Nate Aune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -- > Nate Aune

Re: [Evangelism] [WPD] Informing Donna Snow if you can pay for delivery of your Google Swag

2008-10-11 Thread Donna Snow
de 2008 15:09 > *Para:* Andre Nogueira > *Cc:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]; evangelism@lists.plone.org > *Assunto:* Re: [Evangelism] [WPD] Informing Donna Snow if you can pay for > delivery of your Google Swag > > > > Hi there, > > Not really. Our Google offices can't handle sh

Re: [Evangelism] LinuxWorld SF 2008 :: dot-org pavilion application in

2008-03-10 Thread Donna Snow
David.. put Steve and I on the volunteer list when you do get the confirmation! Let me know if there is anything I can do.. Donna Donna M. Snow, Principal C Squared Enterprises http://www.csquaredtech.com Phone/Fax 408.866.1300 *imagination | innovation | brilliance * On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2

Re: [Evangelism] Developer Room at FrOSCon

2008-02-25 Thread Donna Snow
Christian, I like the idea of having a calendar for upcoming conferences that we can participate in in August we have Linux World AND the Linux Picnic (which I usually attend).. here in the Bay Area. Donna M. Snow On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Christian Scholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote