Plone4Artists

• Who am I?
• What is Plone4Artists?
• What does the Plone4Artists project do?
  
• Who is Plone4Artists for?
  
• How do you get involved?

Who am I?

• Nate Aune - natea (at) jazkarta (dot) com
• Musician
  
• Developer
• Advocate for using technology to help artists promote their work and build communities
  

What is Plone4Artists?

• My itch to scratch
• Assemble an out-of-the-box solution using Plone (+products) for building artist community websites
• Features: newsletters, gig calendar, photo albums, shopping carts, discussion boards, content syndication, audio & video, groups, etc.

What does the Plone4Artists project do?

• Evaluation & testing
• Development & packaging
  
• Documentation & support
• Promotion & advocacy

Evaluation & testing

• Many products available - but hard to find or too time-consuming to install
• testing.jazkarta.com launched to provide one-stop testing of new Plone products
• Convenient links for testers to provide bug reports to the authors/maintainers

Development & packaging

• Bundle best-of-breed products
  
• Make Installers of base Plone + 3rd party products
• Customization policies
  
• Develop new products (ie. ATAudio in collective)

Documentation & support

• Provide support to developers new to Plone
• Provide documentation for end users
  
• Getting started with Plone : http://plone4artists.org/development/GettingStartedWithPlone

Promotion & advocacy

• Preach the benefits of using Plone to artist communities
• Advise artists who want to know how Plone can help them
• Promote Plone to companies who serve artists and can sponsor Plone development
  

Who is Plone4Artists for?

• Community project - all are welcome!
• For artist communities - musicians, artists, filmmakers, poets, etc.
• For developers who want to use Plone to support these communities

How do you get involved?

• Join as a member on the website:
  
• http://plone4artists.org
• See a demo of an example site:
• http://demo.plone4artists.org
• Join the mailing list:
  
• plone4artists (at) jazkarta (dot) com with "subscribe" as the subject
• Help develop and test cool products:
• http://testing.jazkarta.com
• Check out ATAudio in the collective and read the TODO.txt :
  
• http://sf.net/projects/collective
  

Plone4Artists

Thank you! :)