High Performing Teams: Sampling the Secret Sauce

Thank you to those who attended my session at Plone Conference 2008, and for the feedback. The session was really a covert attempt to form the first Plone ultimate frisbee team (wink). Not a single toss missed or off target. Here are the slides and relevant links:

I don’t think the slideshow is very helpful [...]

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GetPaid conference presentation and reflections the open source process

At this year’s Plone Conference in Washington, DC, I had the opportunity to share the story of where GetPaid has gone since birth. In preparing the presentation, with the help of the GetPaid community, we created new reference material, a new way to feature sites using GetPaid, and a presentation that can serve as reference [...]

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A Visual Experience

In preparation for the Plone Conference 2008, Chris at ifPeople asked me to create this visual graphic for a process that he and Jon Stal had developed. It explains how Plone is influenced by the community at large. I had to learn and understand the process in order to create a visual that would capture [...]

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If Plone were an animal

Yesterday I had a lot of fun meeting and talking with many of the people here at the Plone 2008 conference. Many have said that community is at the heart of Plone, and I would agree. See for yourself some of the people of Plone, and listen to them answer “If Plone were an animal, [...]

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Suggestions for Future Conferences

There needs to be a session for first time conference goers.  What’s a sprint?  A BoF?  A lightning talk?  An integrator?  Introduce new attendees to the lingo and tell them the best ways to get involved.  Don’t assume that people know everyone in the Plone community and how it works.  Names are bandied about all [...]

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On getting a richer experience of the conference

The bummer about reality is you can’t be in all places at all times (at least, for most of us). But thanks to some internet goodie, we can at least get more info and stories about what we missed!
Wanna see what’s going on here? Check out the Flickr photos tagged with ploneconf2008 . If you [...]

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Plone Conf – Giving Back to Plone

Notes from the session attended on Day One:
The 10% Manifesto and further: Methods for organized contribution to strategic development (Panel)
This was a panel of people talking and sharing how companies can plan greater involvement in the Plone community. There was a great amount of discussion from the audience as well, demonstrating that people desire to [...]

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Struck by Lightning Talks

Lightning talks rock.  I realized this today.  When I go to longer sessions, I generally find that what I really want is a lightning talk–that little nugget of Plone wisdom that can be communicated in three to seven minutes.  I find that sessions at the Plone Conference are sometimes conducted like computer science classes in [...]

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Highlights from the State of Plone

Alan and Alex kicked off the morning keynotes yesterday with their “State of Plone” talk. They had a lot of items in there, and here is what was most exciting and interesting for me.
State of Plone talk:
- Plone has over 1 million downloads
- One of the largest contributor base of open source projects
What I am [...]

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Gotta Love the Green Hat

ifPeeps are all wearing green hats for the Plone Conference this year.  The idea is to make us a more visible presence at the conference.  So far it’s working.  I’ve already talked to several people who knew that ifPeople was the team wearing green hats.  One person commented to me that he thought we were [...]

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