Hi Nate, I'll be attending the Open source business conference:
http://www.infoworld.com/event/osbc/09/osbc_register.html this will be my first. Can I ask for advice as to what is the most effective way to promote Plone at these kinds of events? Thanks Virginia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Virginia Choy Business Development Manager PretaWeb - Plone Open Source Enterprise Web Solutions W: www.pretaweb.com E: [email protected] A: 21/29 East Crescent St, McMahons Pt, Sydney Australia P: 61-2-9955-2830 M: 61-423-198-306 > -----Original Message----- > From: Nate Aune [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, 6 March 2009 5:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Francesco Ciriaci; Christian Scholz; Gerry Kirk; Karl Horak; Gabrielle > Hendryx-Parker; Jordan Baker; Chris Johnson; Mark Corum; Alexander Limi; > Virginia Choy; Matt Hamilton > Subject: conferences where Plone should be represented > > >>> Another point is maybe about conferences. There are many Open Source > >>> conferences around the world and mostly those are held without Plone > (or > >>> even Python) participation. I don't know how the Drupal or PHP guys do > >>> that in general (of course they are more, that might be an advantage) > >>> but they seem to be everywhere. From my experience it's not always top > >>> talks but I think being present is the most important part. It also > >>> seems they also quite often have some sort of subconference there or > >>> some separate track. > >>> Not sure how we can make this better but maybe somebody has ideas :-) > >> > >> Has anyone other important conferences where Plone should be? We could > >> take note and have a list managed in our Openplans wiki. > > > > I started a wiki page with a list of conferences we should be attending, > and > > I think there's a Google Calendar as well. > > Here is the Google Calendar: > http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/jazkarta.com/embed?src=plone.org_2k0 > sm4v9jh926hkajuh96o6mi0%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York > > If you would like access to add events to this calendar, let me know > and I can share it with you. > > Here is the wiki page which has a list of some events, feel free to > add more events to this list. > http://www.openplans.org/projects/plone-marketing/conferences-and-events > > Nate > > -- > Nate Aune - [email protected] > http://nateaune.com (personal blog) > http://jazkarta.com (open source technology solutions) > http://twitter.com/natea (daily updates) > > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.11.7 - Release Date: 3/03/2009 > 12:00 AM > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.11.7 - Release Date: 3/03/2009 12:00 AM _______________________________________________ Evangelism mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
