Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2007
ProPublica – Journalism in the Public Interest ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that will produce investigative journalism in the public interest. (tags: media nonprofit journalism)
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2007
Crown Hill Neighbors – Home (tags: seattle crownhill neighborhood community)
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2007
David Eaves thinks that community leadership is the core, make-or-break competency of an open-source software project. I agree. He shares a story that illustrates a pattern I’ve rarely seen in the Plone community, and hope to continue not seeing. One of the key ideas I’m interested in pushing is how “open†open source communities are [...]
Posted in General on Oct 29th, 2007
Thanks to some nice work by Vincenzo Barone and Christian Scholz, the slide decks from Plone Conference 2007 are now online at Slideshare.net. Not only does this provide a nifty platform for viewing the slides, but you can also easily embed them in blog posts. Like this: My presentation, called “Best. Plone. Ever!” about Plone [...]
Posted in General on Oct 26th, 2007
YouTube – Plone Conference 2007 Plone Conferece 2007 on Italian TV! (tags: plone video ploneconf2007)
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2007
Skimming through the recent changes in the Plone Collective, I was excited to see that Reinout van Rees appears to be tackling the task of updating PloneFlashUpload for Plone 3.0. I’ve played around with PloneFlashUpload a bit, and it’s a really handy utility for letting users upload multiple content objects in one fell swoop. It’s [...]
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2007
Noonhat.com – Changing the world through lunch. (tags: social-networking seattle) Information R/evolution (tags: video web2.0) The Machine is Us/ing Us (tags: video web2.0)
Posted in General on Oct 23rd, 2007
It appears that Google has started offering IMAP connectivity for Gmail. If so, this removes one of the last technical reasons not to adopt Gmail as a high-quality, low-cost (free!) email provider for a small organization. Concerns about privacy will always linger in the background, but unless you want to run your own mail server [...]
Posted in General on Oct 22nd, 2007
Now that I’ve had a chance to recover from jetlag and get back up to speed at work, I thought I’d take a few moments to reflect on Plone Conference 2007, held October 8-12 in Naples, Italy. Vincenzo Barone and the crew from Abstract Open Solutions were wonderful hosts. The venue was great, internet access [...]
Posted in General on Oct 17th, 2007
Thinking Points — Rockridge Institute (tags: framing lakoff books)
Posted in General on Oct 12th, 2007
Plone Conference 2007 Liveblogging Scott Paley liveblogs from Plone Conference 2007 at CMSWire.com (tags: plone ploneconf2007) xarope build and manage Xen virtual server instances with preconfigured Plone & Zope instances (tags: plone hosting&colocation)
Posted in General on Oct 12th, 2007
I’m thrilled, humbled and honored to have been elected to the Plone Foundation board of directors! I’ll be joining an amazing team of people, including: Nate Aune Geir Bækholt Joel Burton Darci Hanning Alex Limi Steve McMahon (and me!) Plone Conference 2007 has been an inspiring, energizing, brain-filling week. I’ve talked with dozens of people [...]
Posted in General on Oct 12th, 2007
Tom Moroz, Open Society Instiute Intro by Alan Runyan: the future of open source software looks very much like the path that nonprofits and civil society organizations have blazed. Heard a lot about Seattle 2006 conference and the strong community. At first I wondered what the connection between open society and open source was, but [...]
Posted in General on Oct 11th, 2007
firekiss.xpi — KSS (Kinetic Style Sheets) FireKiss is a Firefox extension that builds KSS inspection support in Firebug. (tags: plone kss firefox)
Posted in General on Oct 11th, 2007
Plone Conference 2007 Group Photo Best. Plone. Group photo. Ever! Over 360 people, and one big sign!
Posted in General on Oct 11th, 2007
David Rey of the eduCommons project at Utah State University is giving a great talk about his experiences upgrading Plone’s Content Licensing product to work in Plone 3. Not only is the technical content great, the product is amazing. It provides a powerful, way to easily apply any license terms, including Creative Commons licenses, to [...]
Posted in General on Oct 10th, 2007
Thanks to the heroic efforts of Vincenzo Barone, Christian Scholz and the team at City of Science, we have two channels of live video from Plone Conference streaming on the web and in Second Live. All the details for tuning in are at: http://ploneconf.comlounge.tv/
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 9th, 2007
Postfix Enabler (tags: mac email software)
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 5th, 2007
ask the world > maps: Metro system in Naples, Italy (tags: italy travel ploneconf2007)
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 4th, 2007
I’m off to Naples, Italy for Plone Conference 2007! Thanks to a generous donation from Joel Burton of PloneBootcamps, I’ll be joining my ONE/Northwest colleagues Andrew Burkhalter and Veda Williams for a full week of intensive learning (and fun!) with the Plone community. All three of us are on the agenda: I’m Delivering “Best. Plone. [...]
