Re: [Plone-docs] basic questions

[Andy M. <an...@ag...>]

> What seems to be missing from the documentation I've found is a very
> high-level:
>
>   What is Content Management?
>   What is CMF?
>   What is Plone?

Yes good questions.

Here's my idea. We are getting a CMF version of BackTalk up and running that
we'll put on Plone.org. If you don't know BackTalk is how the current
ZopeBook is displayed where users can enter comments and so on.

We have a couple of editors (I've volunteered myself for this role, but
anyone else is welcome to join) who will add content. Not just from
themselves but also from Wiki's, websites, How-tos and so on to build up a
coherent book. It might take a while to get anything I would call a book,
but it would provide one place to access and improve this stuff. My basic
rough draft would be something like

Chapter 1: Introduction (What is Plone/CMF/Zope/Python/Content Management)
Chapter 2: Installing Plone (Windows, OSX, Linux, issues, requirements etc)
Chapter 3: Using Plone (users point of view, probably be more than chapter)
Chapter 4: Administering Plone (Workflow, users, reviewing)
Chapter 5: Configuring Plone (Security, actions, slots etc)
Chapter 6: Customizing Plone (ZPT etc)
Chapter 7: Plone Style Guide
Chapter 8: Extending Plone

Appendix A: Resources
Appendix B: FAQ
Appendix C: Consultants / Plone Industries

I really hope to get this up and running ASAP.
--
  Andy McKay
  www.agmweb.ca


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark McEahern" <ma...@mc...>
To: "Plone-Docs Mailing List" <plo...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 9:02 AM
Subject: [Plone-docs] basic questions


> What seems to be missing from the documentation I've found is a very
> high-level:
>
>   What is Content Management?
>   What is CMF?
>   What is Plone?
>
> Perhaps because these are obvious?  Not to me, anyway.  I keep thinking
the
> incline of my learning curve with Plone would be a little less steep if I
> had some basic intro to frame my understanding.  As it is, I'm decomposing
> Plone, tinkering with it, customizing it here and there, using Find to
> locate things.
>
> Example:
>
> I wonder, "How does the login box show up?"
>
> I happen to stumble upon the Properties tab of the root portal object,
where
> I see stuff like this:
>
>   here/login_slot/macros/loginBox
>
> in the left and right slots lists.  So then I wonder, "Where is
login_slot?"
> I resort to using Find on the root portal object and see that it's in
> portal_skins/plone_templates/ui_slots.
>
> And I feel rewarded by this discovery.  But wouldn't it be nice if I had a
> tutorial or something that started out answering/framing:
>
>   What is Content Management?
>   What is CMF?
>   What is Plone?
>
> And then drilled into the specifics of Plone (perhaps these are specifics
of
> CMF?):
>
>   What makes up a page?
>   What are portal_actions?
>   What are ui_slots?
>   Best practices...
>   Sample doodad...
>
> Cheers,
>
> // mark
>
>
>
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