UpcomingSchedule

This page provides a schedule for happenings that can provide PR value.

Principles

• Everything about this sequence of events should lead us to a certain place at a certain time. Namely, building the drumbeat for CMS and portals.

May 2000 Week 1

• Applix/VistaSource. Launching their site
• ZapMedia?'s big announcement.
• First checkpoint on Zope.org hit rates.
• Begin setting the CMS message.

May 2000 Week 2

• Perl for Zope. Contract was just signed. This should include quotes from ActiveState?, O'Reilly (Larry Wall), Python (Guido), and probably a customer or user. In fact, we could coordinate with someone like Cameron Laird or O'Reilly Network to have an article written at the same time.
• Partnership with FourThought? to bring XML stuff to Zope.

May 2000 Week 3

• VistaSource part 2. Putting $50k into Zope on Cosource.com, and a case study and article describing the development of the site. This latter would also push DC as they'd talk about getting help from us. Also, tweak Zope.org for Cosource.
• Team Zope.
• Interview and case study with CodeIt? about creating a booming business on Zope.

May 2000 Week 4

• General ZEO availability.
• Folks in NYC?
• Any acquisition?
• Announce CMS plans.

June 2000 Week 1

• 50% jump in website traffic. Mostly due to PR, but in the last half of the month, Mozilla efforts should produce a writing/browsing tool that does a pull every minute. This should be useful enough that people will love using it.

June 2000 Week 2

• email annoucement to Zope.org mail list re: O'Reilly conference. List within outline form of Paul's talk & Chris's 4 hr Zope class

July 2000 Week 1

• Another 50% jump in website traffic. More effects of Mozilla-zation.
• Move into new office.
• 2nd Zope.org mail list O'Reilly conf annoucement repeating last email

July 2000 Week 3

• O'Reilly conference July 17-21 - Monterrey, CA.

July 2000 Week 4

• Re-cap the O'Reilly conference highlights to Zope.org

August 2000 Week 4

• Toronto, Canada Web Content Mgmt Seminar (Aug 29-30)

Other

• Usenix paper.
• Movie and CD ready.
• O'Reilly book.
• Canada seminar.
• Digital Garage announcement.
• 50% jump in hit rates.
• Interliant in the ASP market and us moving the site there.
• The new tummy.com venture.
• Chris M's NTSP case study.