Re: [Evangelism] Plone Teachers Kit - evening education material kit for (semi) professional teachers
+1 I think an out of the box SDK for personal publishing aimed at students would be an awesome win for plone. Here students get taught python but then use php to put up sites and often have never heard of plone. Pity huh? Dylan Jay Technical solution manager PretaWeb 99552830 On 01/12/2009, at 6:39 AM, "Stroß-Radschinski Armin C." e> wrote: If Plone would be more popular for customers than now, you would lack a lot of integrators to do the job. This is a temporary drawback for the future and maybe an obstacle for quicker growth of the community, even if it is not that well known in the public. In Germany we have this issue for years with the need for Zope and Python cracks (which is in fact a paradise for the current ones ;-) I am thinking for a while about creating a "Plone Teachers Kit" for evening education, aiming at making Zope and "Plone-the-platform" more popular for young people or adults to manage their personal content (if it is beyond a blog!) in a very simple local setup of "Personal-Plone" on their own PC. This is focused on making the technology of the platform more recognized for people when it comes to bigger decisions and the question is "Do you know Plone?". This education format is very popular in Germany. A lot of computer education takes place in the so called VHS VolksHochSchule. Most of the time you can make a PC "Driver License" and will receive boring uncreative "WinDoze" Microsoft Office penetration. There are nearly no ore rare offers on script-programming and office- / business- automation. If you cover one aspect of this (file-archive and retrieving with moblie web access) the people sharing the experience are in good chance becoming local superstars. Plone is in direct competition with the growing Sharepoint-Marketing of Microsoft. Here people can make good experience and take this into school, organisations, universities, companies. The ideal format of the material should be a book with a DVD with a live Ubuntu release with Plone containing some instant video collection of Plone pop-stars impressing with the features even when it is in english. (even when it is available on Youtube etc.) with buildout it is a snap to get access to the current releases with web access. The book should be contained on the Media as PDF and eBook. The publication should be jumpstarted an financially backed up by the Plone Foundation. In fact there will be a full refund of the investment with financial payback and more important an increasing impact on the community. I have not read the Packt book on Plone "Plone 3 for Education". But it seems much more technical than we need it for this approach. A good startingpoint for creating such a publication for Plone 4 and 5 in a multi author manner could be setting up a core editor team like we a have a release manager for the software. Plone should be the platform for writing and publishing the eBook version too. The german Plone integrator satzweiss is using a plone setup for creating professional eBooks. We have also some upcoming Plone2Print products. Armin Stroß-Radschinski http://www.coactivate.org/projects/plone2print/ http://www.packtpub.com/plone-3-for-education/book http://www.zopyx.de/projects/SmartPrintNG/ http://www.satzweiss.com/meldungen-news-artikel/belbook-ebook-epub/e-books-nach-rezept-mit-belbook (german only) -- Armin Carl Stroß-Radschinski ACSR industrialdesign Landgrafenstraße 32 53842 Troisdorf Germany Phone +49 (0) 22 41 / 94 69 94 FAX +49 (0) 22 41 / 94 69 96 http://www.acsr.de eMail i...@acsr.de UST. ID Nr: DE154092803 ___ acsr delivers design and innovative functionality for products and publications. acsr integrates most of the current bandwidth of media- and industry-technology into the environment marketing, manufacturing and enterprise-communications. The network of the partners associated with acsr delivers solutions tailored precisely to the needs and budgets of the customer. ___ The information in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee and access to the e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients, any opinions or advice contained in this e-mail are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing client engagement letter or contract. If you have received this e-mail in error please forward to postmas...@acsr.de . Die in dieser E-Mail enthaltenen Informationen sind vertraulich und können von rechtlicher Bedeutung sein. Diese Mail ist ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt und jeglicher Zugriff durch andere Pers onen ist nicht zulässig. Falls Sie nicht der beabsi
[Evangelism] Plone Teachers Kit - evening education material kit for (semi) professional teachers
If Plone would be more popular for customers than now, you would lack a lot of integrators to do the job. This is a temporary drawback for the future and maybe an obstacle for quicker growth of the community, even if it is not that well known in the public. In Germany we have this issue for years with the need for Zope and Python cracks (which is in fact a paradise for the current ones ;-) I am thinking for a while about creating a "Plone Teachers Kit" for evening education, aiming at making Zope and "Plone-the-platform" more popular for young people or adults to manage their personal content (if it is beyond a blog!) in a very simple local setup of "Personal- Plone" on their own PC. This is focused on making the technology of the platform more recognized for people when it comes to bigger decisions and the question is "Do you know Plone?". This education format is very popular in Germany. A lot of computer education takes place in the so called VHS VolksHochSchule. Most of the time you can make a PC "Driver License" and will receive boring uncreative "WinDoze" Microsoft Office penetration. There are nearly no ore rare offers on script-programming and office- / business-automation. If you cover one aspect of this (file-archive and retrieving with moblie web access) the people sharing the experience are in good chance becoming local superstars. Plone is in direct competition with the growing Sharepoint-Marketing of Microsoft. Here people can make good experience and take this into school, organisations, universities, companies. The ideal format of the material should be a book with a DVD with a live Ubuntu release with Plone containing some instant video collection of Plone pop-stars impressing with the features even when it is in english. (even when it is available on Youtube etc.) with buildout it is a snap to get access to the current releases with web access. The book should be contained on the Media as PDF and eBook. The publication should be jumpstarted an financially backed up by the Plone Foundation. In fact there will be a full refund of the investment with financial payback and more important an increasing impact on the community. I have not read the Packt book on Plone "Plone 3 for Education". But it seems much more technical than we need it for this approach. A good startingpoint for creating such a publication for Plone 4 and 5 in a multi author manner could be setting up a core editor team like we a have a release manager for the software. Plone should be the platform for writing and publishing the eBook version too. The german Plone integrator satzweiss is using a plone setup for creating professional eBooks. We have also some upcoming Plone2Print products. Armin Stroß-Radschinski http://www.coactivate.org/projects/plone2print/ http://www.packtpub.com/plone-3-for-education/book http://www.zopyx.de/projects/SmartPrintNG/ http://www.satzweiss.com/meldungen-news-artikel/belbook-ebook-epub/e-books-nach-rezept-mit-belbook (german only) -- Armin Carl Stroß-Radschinski ACSR industrialdesign Landgrafenstraße 32 53842 Troisdorf Germany Phone +49 (0) 22 41 / 94 69 94 FAX +49 (0) 22 41 / 94 69 96 http://www.acsr.de eMail i...@acsr.de UST. ID Nr: DE154092803 ___ acsr delivers design and innovative functionality for products and publications. acsr integrates most of the current bandwidth of media- and industry-technology into the environment marketing, manufacturing and enterprise-communications. The network of the partners associated with acsr delivers solutions tailored precisely to the needs and budgets of the customer. ___ The information in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee and access to the e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients, any opinions or advice contained in this e-mail are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing client engagement letter or contract. If you have received this e-mail in error please forward to postmas...@acsr.de . Die in dieser E-Mail enthaltenen Informationen sind vertraulich und können von rechtlicher Bedeutung sein. Diese Mail ist ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt und jeglicher Zugriff durch andere Personen ist nicht zulässig. Falls Sie nicht der beabsichtigte Empfänger sind, ist jegliche Veröffentlichung, Vervielfältigung, Verteilung oder sonstige in diesem Zusammenhang stehende Handlung untersagt und unter Umständen ungesetzlich. Alle von uns an unsere Kunden gerichteten Meinungen oder Empfehlungen in dieser E-Mail stehen als Beratungsleistung im Zusammenhang mit den Geschäftsbedingungen aus
