[Zope] Re: Working on Zope presentation

[Butch Landingin]

I've got a 2-hour powerpoint presentation entitled 
"Squishdot, Zope and Python" from a talk I gave last February 
which kind of covers a lot (so most of it is a bird's-eye view of the
whole damn kaboodle) -- just email me privately if you're interested...
Its about 1.5 MB unzipped (35 slides) -- most of it screenshots of squishdot 
sites (I'm biased ;^)) -- you can take out the stuff you don't want...

--- Andy McKay andym@ActiveState.com wrote:
> 
> I would recommend just showing a lot of Zope and an application. I made the
> mistake recently of talking too much and only having 5 mins to show stuff. I
> installed Squishdot from a tar file, right there and then and compared it
> too installing Slashcode. That impressed people alot more than the waffle I
> did.
> 

The problem I had with my presentation (and in trying to cover Zope in general terms) was 
that a lot of it tends to go in one ear and out the other -- like so much of the marketingese 
that companies use to tout their products ("...ideal for dynamic, interactive websites; manage
from anywhere using only your browser...blah...blah...")

I'm almost convinced (though I haven't tried it) that a demo (and enough time afterwards 
for questions) might make a more powerful and lasting impression.

Cheers!

Butch


> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Timothy Wilson" <wilson@visi.com>
> To: "Zope listserv" <zope@zope.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 5:30 PM
> Subject: [Zope] Working on Zope presentation
> 
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm going to be doing a presentation on Zope at the July meeting of the
> Twin
> > Cities Linux Users Group. I'm looking for suggestions from others who may
> > have done a similar presentation regarding what topics I should cover.
> I'll
> > be looking at some of my own projects as case studies, but what else would
> > people recommend covering?
> >
> > -Tim
> >
<snip>

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