[Evangelism] UK government backs open source

2009-02-25 Thread Matt Hamilton
All, Just seen this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm Very interesting as if you read towards the bottom they do seem to be actually finally understanding the benefits of Open Source (not just costs, but the flexibility). I was wondering about putting together some kind

RE: [Evangelism] UK government backs open source

2009-02-25 Thread Jon Stahl
Are the some examples of public-sector Plone in the UK we can cite? > -Original Message- > From: evangelism-boun...@lists.plone.org [mailto:evangelism- > boun...@lists.plone.org] On Behalf Of Matt Hamilton > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:31 AM > To: evangelism@lists.plone.org > Subj

Re: [Evangelism] Plone's Market Share

2009-02-25 Thread Nate Aune
Don't forget to mention that Plone has had over a million downloads as of July 2007.http://plone.org/news/plone-reaches-1-million-downloads I was in discussions with an editor at O'Reilly a few years ago about writing a Plone book, and supposedly the idea of a Plone book was shot down by Tim O'Rei

Re: [Evangelism] Plone's Market Share

2009-02-25 Thread Scott Paley
I had the exact same discussion with Tim a few years back while at the O'Reilly Comdex booth (where we were demo'ing Plone after Plone won an online contest to see which open source projects would be featured there). Of course, that was probably 4 or 5 years ago now... 2009/2/25 Nate Aune > Don'

[Evangelism] Mozilla Community Marketing Guide

2009-02-25 Thread Alexander Limi
""" The Mozilla Community Marketing Guide is up and running. This is a guide that’s useful for people who want to participate in Mozilla’s community marketing to help spread the love of Firefox and the open web. But I also thought I would post about it as a good framework for other open s

Re: [Evangelism] Plone's Market Share

2009-02-25 Thread Karl Horak
Cal, Since O'Reilly is largely invested in book sales, some back of the envelope calculations with Amazon sales ranks gives me a feeling that Plone book sales are roughly 1/12 of Drupal's. Very, very, very approximate. (I'll have my quarterly Amazon stats blog posting up within the week.) Th