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[Evangelism] PyCon Japan 2012 and Plone

Shigeo Honda — 2012-05-22T07:47:09

Hi Guys,

I'm Shigeo Honda, Plone Users Group Japan. Will you give us some advice?

PyCon Japan 2012 will be held on September 15 -16 in Tokyo. PyCon
Japan organizers asked  a couple of python related users group, such
as Django, SciPy, Pyramid, Plone etc, to have some sessions in the
event. And they request proposals.

I worry about PyCon is 'die-hard' python developer event and not
suitable  for Plone. So, I'd like to know how Plone community work
with PyCon in other countries. What kind of session is good for PyCon
attendees?  Please let me know your experience in PyCon.

I appreciate any advice and comments.

Thank you,

[Evangelism] PyCon US 2012: Show yourself, Plone Community

Érico Andrei — 2012-02-15T20:51:09

Greetings Plone Community!

PyCon US is a few days away, it is already sold out and as it happened 
in previous editions it will be a meeting point for developers and users 
of Plone

Our Marketing team, lead by Mark Corum and Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker, 
will provide a free Plone t-shirt to every Plone community member 
**attending** PyCon US to wear during the event.

So, in order to get your Plone t-shirt please send an e-mail to Carol 
Ganz (cganz-z4DKO/sx8wnYtjvyW6yDsg< at >public.gmane.org) by February 20th with the following information:

    * Your name
    * T-shirt size (S, M, L, XL, XL, XXL)
    * Email used for your registration at PyCon US
    * Confirmation Number

You can find your confirmation number in a message sent by PyCon 
organizers with subject "PyCon US 2012 Registration/Housing Confirmation".

See you at Santa Clara.


Best,
Érico Andrei

[Evangelism] WPD 2012 date

André Nogueira — 2012-02-01T19:25:59

Hi,

Thanks to everyone who answered the form.
According to these responses, we have a new date.

The World Plone Day 2012 will be held on April 25th 2012

With more than 80% of acceptance, it was the preferred date.

If you plan to hold an event for the WPD, register your city on the
following link (requires login)
http://plone.org/events/wpd/2012/hosts/createObject?type_name=Document

If you have suggestions or want to join the organization please contact me.

Thanks again and let´s start to make a great WPD.

[]s

Andre Nogueira
andre-grcfPhwenrP3rCIxTHco+PB2xoqF/NscUBSOeVevoDU< at >public.gmane.org
Simples Consultoria
www.simplesconsultoria.com.br

[Evangelism] World Plone Day 2012 Survey

André Nogueira — 2012-01-19T11:04:43

Hi everybody,

It´s time to choose a day for World Plone Day 2012.

As usual, I created a small survey that will help us to define the
date and collect ideas for this year.
Please take 5 minutes of your time to tell us your preferences and
thoughts about WPD.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DPSVNJ6

This survey will be closed next Monday.

Thanks,

Andre Nogueira
andre-grcfPhwenrP3rCIxTHco+PB2xoqF/NscUBSOeVevoDU< at >public.gmane.org
Simples Consultoria
www.simplesconsultoria.com.br

Call for Papers ends on Monday

Philip Bauer — 2011-12-09T11:09:07

We are still looking for talks for the first german-speaking Plone-Konferenz in Munich. 
You have until Monday evening to submit a talk. 

To submit a talk please use the form on the website (http://konferenz.plone.de/veranstaltung/vortrag-einreichen) or contact me directly. 

Hurry up! 
Philip Bauer


Conference Office
c/o Starzel.de
Adlzreiterstr. 35
80337 München
Tel: +49 89 18929534
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Plone Konferenz München 2012
Professional Content Management
February 22-24 2012
http://konferenz.plone.de

New presentation. Plone: the CMS that hits above it'sweight

Dylan Jay — 2011-07-16T14:56:53

Hi,

I gave this presentation to the Australian Computer Sociaty last week  
that seemed to get a good response.

http://www.slideshare.net/djay/plone-the-cms-that-hits-above-its-weight
If you download the presentation you can see my notes which might be  
needed for it to make more sense.

It's meant as an introduction to Plone. Feel free to use it or expand  
on it.
I took a new way at explaining Plone. I told a story of how Plone is  
used by some of the largest organisations but many might not have  
heard of it. I used stats to show it's less popular with smaller sites  
and explained this with the lack of easy hosting options. I hightailed  
security and the increase in innovations and also Ploud. I thought it  
worked quiet well.

My 2c, I think Plone has the opportunity to position itself as the  
fast, flexible, "cleaner to develop", innovative alternative CMS. An  
underdog. I'm not sure how we could break from peoples perceptions of  
Plone from the past however. Maybe the marketing experts have some  
ideas?

---
Dylan Jay
Technical Solutions Manager
PretaWeb: reducing duplication in the government web.
P: +612 80819071 | M: +61421477460 | twitter.com/djay75 | linkedin.com/ 
in/djay75

(no subject)

Juan Carlos Leon — 2011-06-21T14:43:17

Hawai'i, http://spc-nextgen.com/indexwww01X.php?asin=f5h5

virtual appliances for Plone evaluation

T. Kim Nguyen — 2011-05-26T13:14:21

Guy Heckman and I are putting together a VMWare appliance and a VirtualBox appliance for Plone 4.0.5.

We thought it would be a good way to ease people into trying out Plone. If you look at vmware.com/appliances there are many out there for other CMSs, but none for Plone. Same at other virtual appliance sites below. This idea stemmed from our PloneEdu buildout project (first a buildout, then a custom unified installer, and then an appliance)...

Is this something that should be part of the Plone marketing effort? Below is the rest of a message I sent out to the plone-website team yesterday - sorry for the duplicate-ish message but this idea probably falls in a couple of places (plone.org site, documentation, marketing). Has this been considered before? Other questions/thoughts below.

Kim

There are a couple of places we can (eventually) get them hosted:

http://vmware.com/appliances/directory/cat/502

and

http://virtualboximages.com/

and possibly

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/

Or we could use BitTorrent to distribute them from someplace else.

Is there interest in pointing to these appliances from plone.org? Perhaps making a plone.org/appliances or plone.org/eval section? The point of these appliances is to make it easy for someone to evaluate Plone. There are a lot of appliances out there for other CMSs. We could make them for a mix of OSs as well as for things like the PloneEdu buildout. Do we want to set some ground rules on what kinds of documentation goes with these, or what they can contain, and should we organize now who will maintain these as OS and Plone versions come out?

Bad result for Plone at Europython

Jan Ulrich Hasecke — 2011-04-19T18:49:45

Did the Plone community miss the voting for the europython program?

http://ep2011.europython.eu/voting-results

On place 154 of 158: Plone, Dexterity and Diazo (talk by Laurence Rowe)

juh

OpenPublic: Drupal for the public sector

Xavier Heymans — 2011-04-07T10:22:39

Hi,

I'm attending an eGovernment workshop in Brussels today. An interesting presentation was about OpenPublic. It looks like Drupal has found an interesting way to enter the public sector market. 

More:
http://openpublicapp.com/

OpenPublic is a Drupal-based content management system (CMS) born from a decade of work building secure, scalable, transparent websites for all sectors of government. It is a community-driven platform supported by a network of innovative open source contributors committed to Open Government.
http://blog.dreamcss.com/content-management-system/open-public-drupal-cms/

This could be an inspiring example for the Plone community,

Xavier

World Plone Day Countdown

André Nogueira — 2011-02-22T22:10:37

Hi all,

We release today wpd.mmxi.countdown 1.0 a package containing a portlet
to display a countdown to the World Plone Day.
If you can, please install it your plone sites.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/wpd.mmxi.countdown/1.0

We are also starting to organize the area in 2011 the WPD Plone.org
If you will hold an event, please add your event to the site.
To do this just follow the link below (you must be logged in)
http://plone.org/events/wpd/2011/hosts/createObject?type_name=Document

Thanks a lot,

Andre Nogueira
andre-grcfPhwenrP3rCIxTHco+PB2xoqF/NscUBSOeVevoDU< at >public.gmane.org
Simples Consultoria
www.simplesconsultoria.com.br
Tel. (11) 3898-2121

An observation about Plone T-Shirts

Ed Manlove — 2011-02-16T17:10:52

After attending a local tech gathering 
<http://wordpressprovidence.com/2010/12/cms-smackdown/> focused on 
sorting out various CMSes, I wanted to share a thought about Plone 
t-shirts.  Due to some panel size limitations, Plone was not represented 
on the panel but I was able to get a few good words in for Plone along 
with a couple of panelists who, when asked, would seriously consider 
Plone as a second choice CMS if their's was not available.  So to 
bolster the case for Plone and get out some advertising I wore my Plone 
Tune-Up shirt, currently my only Plone shirt.


The issue with this shirt and others is that the word "Plone" is pretty 
small and can't be read at a distance greater than a few feet.  Don't 
get me wrong, I love my tune-up shirt (thanks again Six Feet Up!) and 
it's design/purpose was not for billboard advertising. But from across 
the room someone couldn't read "Plone" on my shirt; and at this type of 
event that could be a missed opportunity.  Several attendees came new to 
the various CMSes and were searching for the right system. Not having a 
chance to talk individually with everyone, I would want someone, from 
across the room, to be able to quickly glance over to where I am and 
cleary see "Plone" on my shirt.  I want them to see "Plone" and know how 
to spell "Plone" so they can later search for "Plone".  This is 
important.  I want someone who has never heard of "plone" nor ever heard 
someone say the name "plone" to be given the spelling for "Plone".  The 
Plone logo is fine but I don't think it is universally known as the 
plone logo outside of the plone/cms communities, especially to people 
new to Plone/CMSes; try searching for "Plone" as compared to doing an 
image search for "circle with three blue dots".

I'm not saying that all shirts from now on should have Plone in REALLY 
BIG LETTERS. Just if your purpose or the event's purpose is to introduce 
Plone to new people make sure they can read Plone from across the room.

Ed
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Hi if your a US expat you need to read this!

Expat Tax Planner — 2011-01-27T22:42:56

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CfP LinuxTag Berlin

Jan Ulrich Hasecke — 2011-01-07T15:14:28

Hi,

if you would like to stay some days in vibrant Berlin please consider
the Call for Paper of the LinuxTag, the biggest Linux event in Germany.

http://wiki.linuxtag.org/w/vp:Call_for_Papers

Cheers!

PyCon 2011

Christopher Johnson — 2011-01-05T15:45:52

Hi all,

Glad to see the chatter on events for this year! PyCon is in Atlanta again
and we're hoping to see you here! Last year we were able get a booth for
free and I'm wondering if folks on this list are planning to come and would
help at the booth. It was a great place to hang out and have community last
year (and we tagged every Plonista's badge with the Plone stickers too to
make it easier to "see" our community).

I just put in an inquiry about the booth availability (last year it only
took 6 weeks to get a response :P). Would love to make it happen if others
can help participate at it! Josh and Steve will likely participate in the
entire event and I'll be around some too.

If you're coming to Atlanta for the first time, feel free to ping me for
questions/guidance. It will be a great time of year to be here, especially
for all the folks who live in places where it will still be very cold in
March :).

Happy new year!
-c

NHS UK plans Information Revolution without OpenSource

Eck — 2010-12-02T10:43:14

Greetings,

UK Healthcare is about to undergo a IT revolution . . . and we want Open
Source Software to play a key role.

If you would like to help please comment on the article at 
http://www.smarthealthcare.com/open-source-information-revolution-schwarzat-newbury-01dec10
http://www.smarthealthcare.com/open-source-information-revolution-schwarzat-newbury-01dec10
.

Malcolm Newbury/Eckhard Schwarzat

WPD 2011 date

André Nogueira — 2010-11-30T12:53:36

Hi,

First of all, thanks to everyone who answered the form.
According to these responses, we have a new date.

The World Plone Day 2011 will be held on 27/04/2011

With 78% of acceptance, it was the preferred date.
Second one was April 20th 2011 with 72% of acceptance.
But April 20th and April 13th were selected as a "Not Ok" date for 16,6%.

My next task is compile the suggestions and tips and share with you.

Thanks again and let´s start to make a great WPD.

[]s

Andre Nogueira
andre-grcfPhwenrP3rCIxTHco+PB2xoqF/NscUBSOeVevoDU< at >public.gmane.org
Simples Consultoria
www.simplesconsultoria.com.br
Tel. (11) 3898-2121

Upcoming Plone events

Matt Hamilton — 2010-11-29T09:42:30

Hi all,
  After all the rush of events with the Plone Conference, Plone Symposium South America and the Neoplata Sprint, we now find ourselves in a state of having *no* events listed on plone.org! If anyone knows of any upcoming events, please can they add them. I've just added an expo we are going to this week.

-Matt

WDP 2011 survey

André Nogueira — 2010-11-22T23:04:35

Hi everybody,

Thanks for all messages about the new WPD Champion.
But now is time to work.

The first thing we need to do is choose a day for WPD 2011.

So I created a small survey that will help us to define the date and
collect ideas for next year.
Please take 5 minutes of your time to tell us your preferences and
thoughts about WPD.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LJ5PCS5

This survey will be closed next Friday.

Thanks,

Andre Nogueira
andre-grcfPhwenrP3rCIxTHco+PB2xoqF/NscUBSOeVevoDU< at >public.gmane.org
Simples Consultoria
www.simplesconsultoria.com.br

Announcing the new WPD Champion

Roberto Allende — 2010-11-12T17:59:38

Hello

I'm glad to announce André Nogueira is the new World Plone Day
champion. 

André Nogueira is from Brazil and has a long experience and commitment
with Plone and Python. 

You can meet and know more about him at:

Plone: http://plone.org/author/andren
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andren
Twitter: < at >agnogueira
Personal blog: http://www.andrenogueira.com.br

André will be in charge and he'll start to do all the necessary to make
WPD 2011 happen. 

Congratulations and happy WPD!.

Kind Regards
r.

--
http://robertoallende.com


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Plone (multimedia) Award

David Bain — 2010-11-02T15:51:39

The Caribbean Institute for Media and Communication (where I work) will be
awarding a prize to the top Multimedia Student.

Would it be way out there to have the award named the Plone award? The cost
to sponsor the award is USD$296. If you think this is a good idea and would
like to sponsor the award so that it gets named the "Plone award" let me
know.
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