World Plone Day 2008 Talk - Hunter College
Christopher Warner (c) 2008
New York Media, LLC (c) 2008
cwarner@kernelcode.com
christopher.warner@nymag.comÂ
When I was invited to be the keynote speaker by Hunter College for not just Plone, but on behalf of New York's Plone user Group for World Plone Day. I really wasn't sure what I was going to talk about in specific. So being psyched to do the talk was one thing but after strong consideration there was much to cover. Where was this to begin? Should the talk just cover some Plone technology that I could whip up in a couple of weeks at New York Media? Or, just how we are using planning to use it? On content management alone or what?! Â Eventually I came to the conclusion that covering Plone and Content Management in a way that could reach a general audience was the best approach. The main concern is that most of the concepts involving Plone and Content Management itself as a topic aren't readily understood. Hopefully I reach this goal of making these things easier to understand during this talk and I'd like to thank New York Media for allowing me to be here (as I spent some of my conference time on this, if you saw me working away; this was what I working on)
What is Content Management and What is Plone?
By itself, it's about the phrase "content management". Content, in this case refers to the data; and the data is what we will be managing at the end of the day. It's the actual processes involved with managing content one may own. Whether it's about a specific piece of data that comprises a list, or an object or any another piece of data that one considers content. So, a file by itself may be a piece of content or a model with a list of attributes that comprise facets such as "hair color, eye color, etc" all of this would be considered content. In short, content, is whatever data one considers to be important to them or their business. So, whatever the business is in the business of selling. Whatever that product is. That is the content. Whether it’s automobiles, magazines & newspapers, movies, TV, ones own physical labor, etc. All of what compromises the product being sold is content. That being defined, we now know it's important to us. How do we go about sharing this content on the web, managing this content and generally exposing our content so that it can be utilized in many different fashions by many different people. We don't live in a static world any more, the concepts of waiting to read a paper in the morning is becoming more foreign and technology is allowing access to this content more efficiently each day. No one is waiting for the newspaper in the morning! People are going online and accessing this content 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It's at their finger-tips! Due to this fact we need to be more efficient in providing this content. This brings in what I have termed the "Three Core tenets of Content Management"
So World Plone Day went off with a couple of hitches but all in all it was successful. There were some video and connectivity issues but the video should be online soon as well as the paper version of my talk. Really I promise to get all this stuff up soon. The talk was well received and hopefully it will be useful to others in the future. After the talk it was obvious I need to do my Phd in this stuff. The three-core tenets of content management were a success. All those ideas are in the paper version and i'll put up my slides or a link to them from nymag or whatever. I've been busy with playing pool and work so i've been really slack lately code/patch wise.
I'm almost done with the New York Media Plone stuff, it's a bitch. I'd like to thank Carsten Senger, Sebastien Nicouleaud and Jonathan Wilde (GSOC, 16 year old whiz-kid phenom) for working on Gnome Plone whilst everyone else is busy. That said after Plone Conf 2008 it was thrown into the collective. Available here. So if you want to work on it.. pull it down and get busy.
Next up on the list when I get some time is Plone API manual.. then I'm taking a break for a while. There will be some work on GnomeWeb-Plone in the next couple of weeks and that's it.
Other stuff, like embedded driver work and other stuff I'm not getting to; ever. The only Linux machine i'm using nowadays is my work machine and I plan to wipe that and install OS X. I'll get back to that stuff when and if it gets interesting to me again.
Pool is coming along won my first couple of games after 3-4 severe ass whippings. That is all.
World Plone Day 2008 Talk – Hunter College
World Plone Day 2008 Talk - Hunter College
Christopher Warner (c) 2008
New York Media, LLC (c) 2008
cwarner@kernelcode.com
christopher.warner@nymag.comÂ
When I was invited to be the keynote speaker by Hunter College for not just Plone, but on behalf of New York's Plone user Group for World Plone Day. I really wasn't sure what I was going to talk about in specific. So being psyched to do the talk was one thing but after strong consideration there was much to cover. Where was this to begin? Should the talk just cover some Plone technology that I could whip up in a couple of weeks at New York Media? Or, just how we are using planning to use it? On content management alone or what?! Â Eventually I came to the conclusion that covering Plone and Content Management in a way that could reach a general audience was the best approach. The main concern is that most of the concepts involving Plone and Content Management itself as a topic aren't readily understood. Hopefully I reach this goal of making these things easier to understand during this talk and I'd like to thank New York Media for allowing me to be here (as I spent some of my conference time on this, if you saw me working away; this was what I working on)
What is Content Management and What is Plone?
By itself, it's about the phrase "content management". Content, in this case refers to the data; and the data is what we will be managing at the end of the day. It's the actual processes involved with managing content one may own. Whether it's about a specific piece of data that comprises a list, or an object or any another piece of data that one considers content. So, a file by itself may be a piece of content or a model with a list of attributes that comprise facets such as "hair color, eye color, etc" all of this would be considered content. In short, content, is whatever data one considers to be important to them or their business. So, whatever the business is in the business of selling. Whatever that product is. That is the content. Whether it’s automobiles, magazines & newspapers, movies, TV, ones own physical labor, etc. All of what compromises the product being sold is content. That being defined, we now know it's important to us. How do we go about sharing this content on the web, managing this content and generally exposing our content so that it can be utilized in many different fashions by many different people. We don't live in a static world any more, the concepts of waiting to read a paper in the morning is becoming more foreign and technology is allowing access to this content more efficiently each day. No one is waiting for the newspaper in the morning! People are going online and accessing this content 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It's at their finger-tips! Due to this fact we need to be more efficient in providing this content. This brings in what I have termed the "Three Core tenets of Content Management"