[Educational] Plone Eductional BOF, Mailing List, Future Ideas

[Joel Burton]

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:50 pm, Jonah Bossewitch wrote:

[also cc'd to a few other Plone-at-University people who weren't at the 
Education BOF at the conference.]

> http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/educational

Just a reminder to everyone to sign up! I notice most of us haven't, so I'm 
sending this thanks-and-reminder directly, but I suspect most of the 
conversation will move to the ML.

There's so much universities have in common; you all could help share code, 
ideas, etc. 


It was good meeting and chatting with people at the BOF about Plone's fit and 
uses in the educational sector. 

Some of the interesting things I think that came out of it were:

- All the energy of seeing all these universities using Plone and looking for 
ways to strengthen the connection with our community. That was _excellent_ 
and exciting.

- Universities helping grow users groups. Since universities usually have 
rooms and access to nearby bars, they have everything a budding young 
usergroup needs. Chris Calloway (cbc at unb.edu) helps lead the user group for 
the Triangle area with good support from Duke and UNC, for example. And Jonah 
is helping spearhead a fledgling Plone UG in New York, NY.

- Universities could also be a space where the community could hold a 1-day 
mini-symposium on Plone issues; a good way to introduce the local developer 
community, the university, etc. to Plone. Houston, TX, is planning something 
like this: Chris Williamson, from enfold (chrisw at enfoldsystems.com) is one of 
the coordinators.

Just a (hopefully non-crass) reminder about how I can help: if you haven't 
done so, you may wish to subscribe to our low-volume [~3 mails/month!], 
announcement-only mailing list at http://plonebootcamps.com/about/announce.  
That's the easiest way to find out if there's a Plone bootcamp coming to your 
community/state/country/planet.

Thanks, all!

Best,

- j.

-- 
Joel Burton - joel at joelburton.com
Zope/Plone & Knowledge Management Consultant
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