Re: [Evangelism] Re: Lessons learned from the first World Plone Day

2008-11-12 Thread Donna Snow
Hi Chris, Thank you so much for taking the time to write up your impressions. As a result of our very small but information session in Silicon Valley I've decided that next year we break the "day" up into tracks so that end users and developers alike get some benefit out of it. A time to mingle an

[Evangelism] Re: Lessons learned from the first World Plone Day

2008-11-12 Thread Chris Barnes
I was a "simple attendee" at the Houston WPD, so take my impressions for what they're worth. (1) attendance in Houston was "ok". I didn't do a head count, but a rough guess would put the number at around 20. Honestly, I expected (hoped) for at least 2-3 times that number. (2) the facilit

Re: [Evangelism] Re: Lessons learned from the first World Plone Day

2008-11-08 Thread Tim Knapp
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 12:15 +0100, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > Hi Roberto, > > Am 08.11.2008 um 06:10 schrieb Roberto Allende: > >> Here are my proposals. > >> 1. True international homepage > >> We need to have a multilingual website called worldploneday.org, > >> so that each national team can

Re: [Evangelism] Re: Lessons learned from the first World Plone Day

2008-11-08 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi Roberto, Am 08.11.2008 um 06:10 schrieb Roberto Allende: Here are my proposals. 1. True international homepage We need to have a multilingual website called worldploneday.org, so that each national team can translate announcements and infos into their national language and refer to it in

Re: [Evangelism] Re: Lessons learned from the first World Plone Day

2008-11-08 Thread Donna Snow
Hi, Turnout in Sunnyvale, California was low, but I still consider the event a success. We had myself, Ross Patterson (local plonista), Glen Jarvis (new to Plone but not new to Python) and 3 other guys (so 5 people other than myself). The event was expensive for me (nearly $1,000 when all was sai

[Evangelism] Re: Lessons learned from the first World Plone Day

2008-11-07 Thread Roberto Allende
Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: Hi all, the World Plone Day was great fun and a fairly good success given that it was the first WPD ever and that we started very late to promote it. So I think we will have a World Plone Day next year. From the lessons we've learned we should discuss improvements