[Plone-docs] 3rd party docs: howto about Enfold's free Plone uploading tool?

[Robert N. <ro...@en...>]

I work as a technical writer for Enfold, a Plone consulting company in
Houston (with Alan Runyan). Enfold develops Windows-based Plone
solutions and tools (among other things). 

You may be aware that Enfold offers a (free) community-supported desktop
tool for uploading and dragging/dropping content from Windows Explorer
(using WebDav). Although it's not open source, it has some cool uses,
it's stable,  plus it's free. It works with any Plone site which has
installed the free-but-not-open-source Server Component (also known as
ShellEx Server).  The free version includes a banner ad at the bottom,
but otherwise it works the same as the commercially-supported version. 

http://plone.org/products/enfold_desktop/releases/4.0

I'm totally redoing the docs for that and eventually they will go up on
the enfoldsystems.com website. 

If you're interested, I could submit a portion of those docs for a
"how-to" on  Plone.org. I suspect it would be useful for end users on
Windows --even though there are some tasks Kupu is better suited for.
Enfold Desktop solves a very real problem of letting you upload multiple
files at once, and the majority of users would be interested in knowing
there's a good free tool to do that.  

The list has recently been  talking about a place to store 3rd party
docs, and this howto is a good example of such a document.   Enfold does
have a promotional purpose in making this howto available (and I could
understand that some might prefer Plone.org's docs to include  only the
open source parts and not non-opensource components).  

I wanted to get a preliminary sense of what the Plone.org doc team
think: is this appropriate for  Plone.org?  (If so, I can submit it in
the next few weeks). 

By the way, I recently  created and published   docs for  two Enfold
products (Enfold Server
http://www.enfoldsystems.com/software/server/docs/4.0/  and Enfold Proxy
http://www.enfoldsystems.com/software/proxy/docs/4.0/ ).  Although  a
good case probably could be made for a howto about using Enfold Desktop,
obviously the docs for Server and Proxy would be too commercial (and
hence inappropriate)  for Plone.org.  Even so, it would still be nice to
have a place on Plone.org  to add a URL to more proprietary docs hosted
elsewhere. 

Thoughts? Opinions? 

Thanks. 


Robert Nagle, Technical Writer
Enfold Systems, 4617 Montrose Blvd #C215
Houston TX 77006
713 942 2377 Ext. 158 (Skype: Idiotprogrammer)