Day 2 (Plone Conference 2008 Notes)

"So you want to be a Plone consultant..." by Nate Aune

• Finding Projects and selling plone
• doing sales calls and acquired experience
• advocates in community
• user groups
• word of mouth
• gov't contracts
• open source appeal
• How much to charge
• hourly rates are best since requirements charge often
• most start out fixed, but moved over to hourly
• fixed priced contracts are death trap
• open scope
• price/hour fixed
• adapt features of project as changes come along
• 30-50 hour scoping
• support contract
• limited hours per month
• didn't want to talk so they didn't eat hours
• response to do free 1 hour weekly talks
• don't put cheap rates
• bill monthly

"A Simple Plone Setup on EC2" by David Bain

• alteroo consulting group
• EC2 = Elastic Compute Cloud
• lots of machines behaving like super computer
• get VM
• targeted toward devs
• Scale when you need to
• time
• quantity
• power
• managed via API
• EBS - elastic block store
• like thumb drive in cloud
• only pay for time you use
• amazon issues digital cert
• can choose from various distros
• S3 = simple storage service
• AMI - Amazon machine image
• Need shells scripts to manage
• boto - python api for amazon
• elastic fox
• will make plone image available
• methodology
• prepare tools
• set environmental variables in bash profile
• alestic

"Future of Plone User Experience" by Alexander Limi

• gloworm
• deliverance
• Tiles
• Simplify
• Get rid of folders
• dexterity

"Simplifying Plone" by Martin Aspeli

• keep in mind
• grok
• repoze
• pylons
• turbo gears
• repoze bfg
• trac
• things that work well
• content editing
• installation
• collections
• settings
• content rules
• zodb
• multi-lingual
• Now
• custom folder
• cssmanager
• DIYPloneStyle
• Future
• front end to customization registry
• deliverance
• plone.maintemplate
• gloworm
• SSO
• customization registry

"Using Grok to Walk like a duck" by Brandon Craig Rhodes

• Zope 3 Component Architectre
• define interface
• register adapter
• consumer request adaptation
• Vice
• Pretty much just an overview of adapters...  Grok makes it easier to manage

"Deliverance: Theming Decoupled" by Ian Bicking

• deliverance.openplans.org
• pyinstall/pybundles
• runs as proxy
• can grad content out of a plone site and rearrange it into another template
• makes skinning easier
• can't do editing on same site
• potentially slower...