Hi everybody,
a topic I care a lot about is: aggragating/promoting/spreading Plone
locally, I've always cared a lot.
Initiatives like to World Plone Day are great to this respect; another
mayor actionable is.... country-specific Plone sites!
I'm very happy about the PF position on the topic ("The Foundation is,
in general, happy to see "country-specific" Plone sites) and also
happy that the PF could work out very simple and clear guidelines for
it: (
http://plone.org/foundation/committees/ip/country-specific-domain-policy
).
Following this "encouragement" from the Foundation in Italy we started
developing the plone.it site (
http://plone.it).
"The new Plone.it portal is addressed to the italian community of
Plone users and developers: it aims to provide documentation about
Plone in italian, visibility and aggregation for the italian
community, and a channel to find and contribute localized material for
the promotion of Plone."
(see full press release:
http://www.plone.it/diffondi/comunicati/pressrelease-ploneit)
.
And we decided to the focus on:
1) have a wide participation of the local community
2) develop the site as a bridge to the wider international community
(plone.org, plone.net, etc.): i.e. plone.it is not a final
destination, but an "entry point" (like current plone.org/countries/XY
pages).
3) focus on local/regional specific products/market/etc. (italian
Public Administration stuffs, italian specific events, etc.)
4) global consistency of the logo/brand: no plone logo derivative, but
simple .it extention; consistency with new Plone logo color.
Like for the World Plone Day I hope other countries will follow (if
they don't have local/regional sites already). I wish local
communities can grow, develop and market Plone locally... with some
global/international coordination! We can share experiences, ideas,
code and much more.
cheers,
Francesco.
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