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] 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] Lessons learned from the first World Plone Day
The 2009 World Conference will be announced on Dec. 12 and hopefully that will include a scheduled week. I suggest waiting a month until we know more about that. However, for a first approximation, I see that 6 and 13 Nov. are possibilities (if you're not afraid of Friday the Thirteenth). -- Karl Jan Ulrich Hasecke-2 wrote: 3. More time to prepare the World Plone Day The DZUG e.V. (German Zope User Group) is planning its annual schedule in late december or early january. In 2008 the WPD-idea came too late for us, so that we could not support our community in an optimal way. For our annual plan for 2009 it is crucial to know whether and when apporximately there will be a WPD in 2009. I would propose to have a WPD not too late in the year, to avoid conflicts with the Plone Conference, but I am fine with a World Plone Day in next years november again. ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Lessons-learned-from-the-first-World-Plone-Day-tp1471191p1472172.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] Lessons learned from the first World Plone Day
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 20:11 +0100, 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 for the next years WPD. 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 their national PR. 2. Refining target group We discovered that a great percentage of our participants were people who already heard of Plone before or even uses it already. So it is good to have a mixture of basic talks like »What Is Plone?« or »The Plone Community«, but you definitely need some presentations for an advanced audience, for people who already know Plone and its community. 3. More time to prepare the World Plone Day The DZUG e.V. (German Zope User Group) is planning its annual schedule in late december or early january. In 2008 the WPD-idea came too late for us, so that we could not support our community in an optimal way. For our annual plan for 2009 it is crucial to know whether and when apporximately there will be a WPD in 2009. I would propose to have a WPD not too late in the year, to avoid conflicts with the Plone Conference, but I am fine with a World Plone Day in next years november again. 4. Give-aways! I know their were some, but we've got none. :-( I emailed the lists a few of times (plone-users/developers, evangelism) asking for addresses but didn't receive a response from you (I did receive a response from Max Jakob and Dr. Wolfgang Tank. -Tim 5. More noise in the media and the web especially all these web 2.0 sites. juh ___ 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
