The advocate toolkit
This page is for advocates who want everything at hand. Bookmark it.
Contents
- Facts and sources
- What to say
- Show and tell
- Write and post
- Channels and events
- Contribute
- Do it right
- Addresses to paste
Facts and sources
| Tool | Use |
|---|---|
| Where the facts live | Find the source for any claim |
| One-page fact sheet | Print or share |
| Knowing the product family | Every product in a sentence |
| The story in two minutes | The history, short and right |
| 7x and the Foundation | Two organizations, one project |
| Glossary for advocates | Terms in plain words |
What to say
| Tool | Use |
|---|---|
| Talking points: the core set | Ten points with proof |
| Editors, developers, administrators, decision makers | Per audience |
| Open source, security, accessibility, languages | Per value |
| Velocity, Layouts, Intelligence, hosting, help, longevity | Per feature |
| Claims you must not make | What never to say |
| Answering objections and the objection pages: alive?, PHP, people, other CMS, security, AI | Doubts |
Show and tell
Giving demos, Lightning talk script, Twenty-minute talk, Workshop, User group or class, Live demo safety, The system card in demos, Screencast, Accessible slides, and the click-by-click Demo scripts.
Write and post
Blog post, Tutorial, Case study, Release post, History post, Citing and licensing, Social media guidelines, Social post templates, Naming rules quick card, History wording, Responding in public, Hostile threads.
Channels and events
The community channels, Forums, Telegram, GitHub, Share and Projects, eZpedia, Meetup, Online meetup, Event checklists, Sprint, Community table.
Contribute
Improving the help, Translations, Translation review, Bug reports, Confirming issues, Testing main, Which tracker, Mentoring, Welcoming newcomers, Answering questions, Newcomer FAQ, Right help page.
Do it right
Conduct and ethics, Honesty, Disclosure, Privacy, Respecting others, Security reports, Advocate checklists, and the values: accessibility, security, open source, free documentation, funding. Growth: ladder, first week, 90 days, log, recognition, measuring.
Addresses to paste
Project https://exponential.earth/
Foundation https://foundation.exponential.earth/
7x https://se7enx.com/
Forums https://share.exponential.earth/forums
Telegram https://t.me/exponentialcms
eZpedia https://ezpedia.exponential.earth/
Projects https://projects.exponential.earth/
Documentation https://doc.exponential.earth/
Code https://github.com/se7enxweb/exponential
Issues https://github.com/se7enxweb/exponential/issues
Community issues https://github.com/se7enxweb/exponential-community/issues
Security [email protected] (private; see SECURITY.md)
Sponsor Foundation https://github.com/sponsors/exponentialcms
Sponsor 7x https://github.com/sponsors/se7enxwebRelated pages
- Advocates: start here
- Advocate reading path
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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