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Re: [Product-Developers] Thoughts on championing OOTB themes

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Ken Wasetis [at Contextual] wrote:

> Veda,
>
> It seems to me to be a very easy sell (then why haven't I?) to the
> existing mambo/joomla/drupal skin producers to just learn enough about
> another tool (Plone) that gives them yet another channel to get a few
> more miles out of designs they've already done the hard work on.
>
> These people/shops already run ecommerce sites to sell/download their
> new Plone skins from and understand the model for doing that.  I think
> they just hear of the Plone learning curve and get scared off, but
> I've seen non-Python/non-Plone developer-designers pick up the Plone
> skinning process rather quickly.

Me too, I've a volunteer in my organization with a little python
knowledge (he is doing a human faculty), which I told: "take the
tutorial on DIYPloneStyle and do a new theme". He did with almost no
help by me :)

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