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From: Robert N. <ro...@en...> - 2008-07-12 00:55:03
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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) |