There is still space for you to participate in the upcoming Plone4Artists /
multimedia sprint <http://plone.org/events/sprints/plone4artists/> on July
18-22 in Boston, MA. Everyone is welcome, no matter what your skill level.
See the list of people who are already coming and sign up
today<http://plone.org/events/sprints/plone4artists/participants>!


In addition to the jamming, coding and documenting during the day, we're
also trying to arrange an outing to go see the Red
Sox<http://www.redsox.com>play in Fenway Park, hear top Berklee
College of Music students perform at
the Wallys Jazz Cafe <http://www.wallyscafe.com/> jam session, and see the
earth in 3D at the world-famous
Mapparium<http://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/exhibits/mapparium.jhtml>.


Multimedia topics and more!
The focus of the sprint is to improve Plone's handling of multimedia
content, but there will also be a team working on
Vice<http://www.openplans.org/projects/vice>(incoming/outgoing
Atom/RSS syndication),
Deliverance <http://www.openplans.org/projects/deliverance> and
Plone4ArtistsCalendar<http://plone4artists.org/products/plone4artistscalendar>.


There is also an environmental track which will focus on REST web service
for Archetypes, Map gallery and Plone4ArtistsImage
<http://plone4artists.org/products/plone4artistsimage>, an image content
type that can extra metadata about the image (IPTC, EXIF, geotagged
location).

See the topics page
<http://plone.org/events/sprints/plone4artists/topics>for the complete
list of things we'd like to work on. Feel free to add a
comment if you have a suggestion.

Sponsors
A big thanks to all of our sponsors for making this event possible! Christian
Science Monitor <http://www.csmonitor.com/>, Jazkarta<http://www.jazkarta.com>,
Gold sponsor: The Nature Conservancy <http://www.nature.org>, Silver
sponsors: Oxfam America <http://www.oxfamamerica.org>, Friends of the
Earth<http://www.foei.org>
,
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
<http://www.pik-potsdam.de>, Bronze
sponsor: New England Wildflower Society <http://www.newfs.org>.

If your organization is able to contribute financially, we are still seeking
additional sponsors
<http://plone.org/sprints/events/plone4artists/sponsors>to cover the
cost of food and key sprinters' travel expenses. Your support
is greatly appreciated!
<http://plone.org/sprints/events/plone4artists/sponsors>

Remote sprinters
If you can't physically join us in Boston, you are still welcome to
participate as a remote sprinter. Please add a comment with your name and
IRC nick to the participants
page<http://plone.org/events/sprints/plone4artists/participants>under
the remote sprinters heading.

We will be hanging out in #plone4artists on irc.freenode.net. There will
also be a live Quicktime video stream and maybe even a virtual lounge in
Second Life! MrTopf - are you listening? ;)

New mailing lists
If you are interested in staying up-to-date on all the latest progress in
multimedia and the Plone4Artists project, please subscribe to the new
Plone4Artists
users mailing list <http://groups.google.com/group/p4a-user>:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Optional training
There will be two days of Zope 3 Training for Plone
Developers<http://jazkarta.com/services/zope-3-training-for-plone-developers>immediately
before the sprint. If you are interested in learning how to
leverage Zope 3 component architecture in your Plone projects, this is a
perfect opportunity to learn from one of the foremost experts, Rocky Burt.
There are still spots left, but you need to register soon! Please email
[EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any questions.

<http://plone.org/sprints/events/plone4artists/sponsors>We look forward to
seeing you in Beantown!

thanks,
Nate, Rocky and Dave
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