PloneConf 2008 Day Three
So, the final day at PloneConf 2008 was interesting. Many good topics covered and many good talks. Met a lot of people and sadly didn’t have any cards to give anyone. I’ll try to have this rectified but thanks to the Google associating everything I do with my name it’s pretty easy to find me. David Bain gave an excellent talk on using Plone in an EC2 instance which was great. However, the most interesting conversation was actually in regards to getting the word out about Plone. We pale in comparison to the numbers at other content management events and really it’s for no other good reason than the fact we aren’t making things easy for people and then on-top of that we aren’t very vocal. The one thing I took from the conference is that we should be making these ideas more tangible, the new “plone.org” that was previewed was excellent and it’s definitely a step in the right direction. We need more easy tutorials, make things easier to theme. Espouse some of the core concepts involved in content management. It’s always the case that the best technology doesn’t always win and it would really be a tough pill to swallow if as a community we couldn’t recruit more developers and people who really are passionate about content management. I think a good tutorial for business and management types is also in order… There aren’t enough hours, just not enough. All in all I left feeling good about the future of Plone and psyched about some of the ways I was seeing it used and I hope PloneConf 2009 is just as great! So until then; it’s back to work.