[Evangelism] PyCon Japan 2012 and Plone

Ken Wasetis [Contextual Corp.] ken.wasetis at contextualcorp.com
Tue May 22 20:29:05 UTC 2012


+1 Sounds like a great idea!  Maybe approach the marketing committee 
and/or Board?

On 5/22/12 2:03 PM, Armin Stroß-Radschinski wrote:
> Google Summer of Code supporting Plone may was a good recognition in 
> the upcoming professionals area. Timo Stollenwerk and Franco 
> Pellegrini are excellent examples what kind of success good newcomer 
> support can bring up! We need such successful people talk more about 
> their involvement.
>
> Cab we create a well donated developer contest attracting new guys by 
> special topics and attractive winner prizes? Of course! Then the 
> celebration of the handing over should be a remarkable media event (at 
> least look like!)
>
> To design and deliver a remarkable award trophy that makes up good 
> photos and heavy weight on the desk should be no problem (for me ;-) 
> waving! We were running pupil contests with around 5000 participants 
> each time for nearly 10 years. The setup is in the drawer!
>
> Armin
>
>
> Am 22.05.2012 um 19:23 schrieb Maurizio Delmonte:
>
>>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Matt Hamilton <matth at netsight.co.uk> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Not sure if it means anything but our company submitted 4 talks for 
>>> pyconau this year. The two plone related talks were the two rejected.
>>> It got me to thinking about the plone communities relationship to 
>>> the python community.
>>> I think open source is spread by fans, people not directly involved 
>>> with the software itself. Those fans exist in a much larger 
>>> community than plone itself. It makes me think that if the python 
>>> community aren't fans of Plone, then where are our fans?
>>> Sorry it's a little negative and off topic.
>>
>> Similar experiences with Europython the past few years. There were a 
>> load of Plone talks submitted this year, and the only ones accepted 
>> were the ones that did not mention Plone in the title.
>>
>> actually, I have two talks in Europython this year: one mentions both 
>> Plone and Django in the title, the other just declares "professional 
>> content management with Python in 2012"..
>>
>> both the talks are in italian, so good chance are there that they 
>> were short in proposals ;)
>>
>> Nonetheless, Django itself this year had a very low profile presence 
>> at Europython (try to search for it here 
>> https://ep2012.europython.eu/p3/schedule/ep2012/ and you'll see just 
>> 3 talks on Django, then two more, one very tech unrelated and the 
>> other from me..)
>>
>> I believe we need to be present at PyCons as much as we can, to make 
>> people aware that Plone is well alive and that plone could serve them 
>> well (finally we are made out of Python, aren't we?).
>>
>> I also believe that Matt & c. are right in saying that we should try 
>> to attract devs using other channels, universities being a good 
>> alternative to me.
>> Let's inspire more people to do this!
>>
>> Maurizio
>>
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