Re: Re: [Evangelism] Lessons learned from the first World Plone Day
Donna, Consider connecting with computer science faculty at a local community college. They often have free access to unscheduled facilities when the general public does not. Partnering with faculty can also drive up interest with students. As an adjunct professor at the College of Santa Fe, I have free use of a mega-classroom (~125 seats) and four 20-seat computer labs, all with projection equipment. CSF-Albuquerque focuses on evening and weekend classes, so daytime use is easily worked out. Then again, I may be incredibly fortunate to have such a cool benefit from CSF. (BTW, look for an ABQ Sprint next year to take advantage of CSF space as well.) Also, some public libraries have available public meeting space for groups your size. Best of luck, Karl Donna Snow (SnowWrite)-2 wrote: The event was expensive for me (nearly $1,000 when all was said and done). It's difficult to find free space in this area. Google wasn't willing to provide a space and most universities I contacted (believe it or not) wanted to charge an hourly rate for the event. The other thing I realized is we (the Plonista's in this area) really need to get out there and promote the living daylights out of Plone. We are not as Plone friendly in this area (unlike some of our European counterparts). So next year we start earlier and I try harder to find a location that is free (or very low cost). -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Lessons-learned-from-the-first-World-Plone-Day-tp1471191p1477147.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
Re: [Evangelism] Postmortem for WPD
Karl - do you know about the forms feature that is new with Google Spreadsheets? This might be a more simple and safe way to collect the data than having folks edit the raw table cells. Nate -- Nate Aune - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jazkarta.com On Nov 9, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Karl Horak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just put a http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=py-ZRibpWMZXMgI9P-XXweg spreadsheet up on Google Docs with the listing of participating cities and requesting number of attendees, number of presenters/hosts, any notes of interest, and the other columns Donna suggested. If you hosted a WPD event, kindly hop over and enter your stats. When this gets filled in, we should move the info over to the Open Plans pages. Thanks in advance Donna Snow (SnowWrite)-2 wrote: If you have data you want me to capture in a survey or a spreadsheet please feel free to send my way. How many you expected, how many rsvp'd and how many actually showed up.. what you gave away (did you provide food or not) whatever logistics you think will help us plan for next time. Maybe best if we just do it on Open Plans Wiki?? Donna -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Postmortem-for-WPD-tp1476019p1477112.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
Re: [Evangelism] Lessons learned from the first World Plone Day
-- Nate Aune - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jazkarta.com On Nov 9, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Karl Horak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donna, Consider connecting with computer science faculty at a local community college. They often have free access to unscheduled facilities when the general public does not. Partnering with faculty can also drive up interest with students. As an adjunct professor at the College of Santa Fe, I have free use of a mega-classroom (~125 seats) and four 20-seat computer labs, all with projection equipment. CSF-Albuquerque focuses on evening and weekend classes, so daytime use is easily worked out. Then again, I may be incredibly fortunate to have such a cool benefit from CSF. (BTW, look for an ABQ Sprint next year to take advantage of CSF space as well.) Great! Maybe we could organize a marketing sprint? Also, some public libraries have available public meeting space for groups your size. Yes, after several unsuccessful attempts to find space in Boston, we found a library just around the corner which had a multipurpose room that could seat 100. And it was free! So definitely check with the libraries in your area as they often have these facilities available for public use at no cost. Nate Best of luck, Karl Donna Snow (SnowWrite)-2 wrote: The event was expensive for me (nearly $1,000 when all was said and done). It's difficult to find free space in this area. Google wasn't willing to provide a space and most universities I contacted (believe it or not) wanted to charge an hourly rate for the event. The other thing I realized is we (the Plonista's in this area) really need to get out there and promote the living daylights out of Plone. We are not as Plone friendly in this area (unlike some of our European counterparts). So next year we start earlier and I try harder to find a location that is free (or very low cost). -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Lessons-learned-from-the-first-World-Plone-Day-tp1471191p1477147.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
Re: [Evangelism] Postmortem for WPD
On Nov 9, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Donna Snow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we want to schedule a chat session for figuring out what we can do differently for next year? I'd be up for a chat session and could rope Vincenzo into the call too since I'll be at the Bolzano sprint this week. If you have data you want me to capture in a survey or a spreadsheet please feel free to send my way. We have #'s from the eventbrite.com site, a paper sign in sheet, and a surveymonkey.com survey that has responses to your questions. We have a bunch of blog posts and some numbers floating around the web, let's gather them all in one document. If folks have properly tagged them with worldploneday2008 they should show up at http://technorati.com/tag/worldploneday2008 How many you expected, how many rsvp'd and how many actually showed up.. what you gave away (did you provide food or not) whatever logistics you think will help us plan for next time. We were fortunate to have $100 in food/drink donated by Wingware. They also donated 3 licenses to their WingIDE Pro software as giveaways ($395/each value!) and some really cool balsa airplanes. Thanks Stephan! We had all the attendees compete for prizes (t-shirts and books) with an airplane toss which was a lot of fun. See photos here: http://flickr.com/photos/tats/3011735820/in/set-72157608746461707/ For example, I posted on a forum at LinkedIN and received and email from Steve Holden asking why we didn't contact Python Software Foundation (and he blogged about the fact that we didn't contact them) so we need to check into various related organizations that might be interested in participating and document them. Yes, we definitely need to notify the Python and Zope foundations to see if they can help with promotion. We know better for next time. Maybe best if we just do it on Open Plans Wiki?? Yeah, I recommend making a lessons learned from WPD2008 page in the Plone-marketing area on openplans.org. Thanks, Nate ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
[Evangelism] Fwd: World Plone Day 2008 Tokyo
On Nov 8, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Jonathan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've posted a 12-minute video containing audio interviews and photos of the World Plone Day 2008 event held at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. http://blip.tv/file/1445629 Nice video! I like the audio podcast format with complementary photo slideshow. (I've submitted it to plone.tv so it will show up there too if accepted). Yup, I published it and also added the tag worldploneday2008. If you have video to share please add it to Plone.tv and tag it with that. Then I'll make a collection to aggregate all the WPD videos. Nate With thanks to all the organizers and participants, Jonathan Lewis Hitotsubashi University ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
Re: [Evangelism] Following LinkedIn forums
-- Nate Aune - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jazkarta.com On Nov 8, 2008, at 8:15 PM, Donna Snow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on a mission it seems :-) fire under my butt to get the word out about Plone (especially locally) I went looking on some of the forums for groups I've joined on LinkedIn and found this question and responded. http://tinyurl.com/5hzpv3 Let's keep our eyes out for opportunities to talk about Plone (just like checking for negative comments/issues) we should also be looking for opportunities to tell as many people as possible. I know Matt Hamilton, Gerry Kirk and others are already doing this on Twitter. The Tweetdeck app for OSX makes this easy as you can have a pane of all tweets that contain the keyword Plone. Getsatisfaction.com also provides an overheard monitoring feature to tell you where your users/customers are talking about you and provides a way to track these conversations. Nate Donna ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
Re: [Evangelism] Google Earth simulation of flying to all World Plone Day locations
-- Nate Aune - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jazkarta.com On Nov 7, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Mark A Corum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nate: Any chance you have the information about the Plone Day events in a spreadsheet? No, but maybe Roberto or Donna has it. Karl set up a spreadsheet so hopefully we can collect this info there, or input it from the original list. Nate Mark Mark A Corum IM -- markcorum on AOL, MSN, Skype, Meebo and Yahoo; Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Light up the darkness. - Bob Marley Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchmen?) - Juvenales, Satires On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Nate Aune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought it would be cool to show a Google Map of all the World Plone Day locations around the world, so I started manually typing them in and adding them to this map: http://tinyurl.com/world-plone-day-map This proved to be quite tedious so I've opened up the map for collaboration, so that *anyone* can add locations to it. If you are hosting a WPD event, please add your location so your city will be included on the map. Then I thought it would be even cooler if we could fly around to the various World Plone Day locations using Google Earth. Noticing that this page provides an RSS feed of all the WPD locations (http://plone.org/events/wpd/2008/wpd), I googled for rss to kml and sure enough, there was a utility to convert the RSS feed to a KML file which can be opened by Google Earth. Open this file in Google Earth: http://idisk.mac.com/nateaune-Public/world-plone-day-locations.kml If you want to do this yourself, here are the instructions: 1) Go to this page: http://www.geonames.org/rss-to-georss-converter.html 2) Scroll down to the bottom of this page, and paste in the URL: http://plone.org/events/wpd/2008/wpd/RSS to the Rss to KML (GoogleEarth) Converter form. The resulting file can be renamed to have a .kml extension, so that you can double-click it to open up in Google Earth. 3) In the Places pane, navigate to Temporary Places - world-plone-day-locations.kml - World Plone Day 4) Click on the folder 5) Click on the play button to start flying around the world! For some reason, the KML file contains only the first several locations (up to Córdoba, Argentina). I'm wondering if it's not unicode-friendly, and choking on the ó character in Córdoba. Anyways, it's pretty interesting to fly around to these places, and makes a great intro as people are arriving at your WPD location, or during a break. Have fun! Nate -- Nate Aune - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nateaune.com (personal blog) http://jazkarta.com (open source technology solutions) http://twitter.com/natea (daily updates) PondCMS: Fully managed Plone-based CMS solution http://jazkarta.com/products/pondcms ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
