I thought other Plone user groups might be interested in this recent development happening in Boston... (see Russ' email below to the CM Pros mailing list)<br><br>I think the Plone community could in general be better about reaching out to other user groups and inviting them to come and learn about Plone.
<br><br>Russ suggested inviting the MySQL user group to a Plone meeting and make the topic, "How to use get Plone to talk to MySQL". We had a guy from the Ruby user group show up last night, and there are often folks from the Python user group who come to learn about Plone.
<br><br>Thoughts, other ideas? We can continue this discussion at the Plone Conference - i think there is even a BoF about Plone user groups.<br><br>Nate<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">
From: <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:rdanner617@comcast.net">rdanner617@comcast.net</a></b> <<a href="mailto:rdanner617@comcast.net">rdanner617@comcast.net</a>><br>Date: Oct 20, 2006 1:05 AM<br>Subject: [cmpros] Boston Members - Report on plone user group and call for interest in Boston CM/ECM meetup
<br>To: <a href="mailto:cmpros@lists.cmprofessionals.org">cmpros@lists.cmprofessionals.org</a><br><br></span>ATTN Boston, MA Members:<br><br>This Month's Boston Plone User Group hosted at the Christian Science Monitor was very interesting. We don't use plone but it is great to a be a part a group of such talented individuals (Several members of CMPros) engaged in web content managment and open source.
<br><br>To night we looked at a number of new functionalities Developed by Nate Aune and he collegues for managing multi media within the plone system.<br><br>We also looked at plone functionality called smart folders. Smart folders are an awesome capability of plone which allows dynamic / adaptive organizations to be genereated on the fly. Seth Gottlieb (
<a href="http://contenthere.blogspot.com/">http://contenthere.blogspot.com/</a>) posted a blog on an article "There is no Folder" by Jonah Bossewitch <a href="http://contenthere.blogspot.com/2006/05/there-is-no-folder.html">
http://contenthere.blogspot.com/2006/05/there-is-no-folder.html</a>. Which highlights the power in this kind of functionality. If you haven't had a chance to check it out, do so its good stuff.<br><br>One of the things we were discussing after the meeting was the thought of finding individuals in the Boston area to participate in a Content Management User Group. My organization (The CS Monitor) uses alfresco, the great gang we hosted tonight uses Plone, Seth does it all :) Although we are all using different products we have many of the same issues. I'd be interested to know who in the boston area would be interested in forming a general CM/ECM user group. Since many of us meet for other usergroups it may not make sense to meet each month, maybe ee could meet maybe once a quarter.
<br><br>If you are in boston, or close to boston, and are interested send me an email. I think I can find some wiki space to coordinate something if there is interest.<br><br>Best Regards,<br><br>Russ Danner<br>CS Monitor
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