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Original Post: World Plone Day 2008 In México
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As part of the World Plone Day 2008 event, we had a small gathering at the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM).
27 people came to the "Marcos Moshinski" auditorium at the Nuclear Science Institute, which graciously sponsored the event (thanks a lot to Antonio Ramírez for the fabulous effort). In addition to that, 15 more persons attended the event via videoconference.
I gave a short introduction to Plone and a quick demo, followed by coffee and donuts. Next, Rodrigo Alonso, from Root Technologies, walked us through a case study of a content management project where his company, a Java shop, discovered and used Plone successfully for a high profile client. To complete the day, Sergio Rajsbaum, from the Mathematics Institute at the UNAM, described the work being done at the institute and explained why they chose Plone for their web projects. He finished his presentation by inviting all attendees to the México Plone Group.
Two short highlights from the talks that I think are interesting:
In Rodrigo's Talk, he mentioned that Plone has many features out of the box, which took their customer by surprise. They had proposals from other development companies in México to do the job in six to eight months, with less features. Plone allowed them to do it in two months. The thing to note here is, when Plone fits the project objectives fairly well, it's an amazingly powerful and easy to use piece of software.
In Sergio's talk, one interesting fact he mentioned is that they chose Plone in part because it's based on Python. Being an academic institution where many graduate students would be working on the development of their CMS systems, they wanted them to do that using an academically respected language.
In all, I'd say for the Mexican Plone community, which a few months ago consisted of three people, the event was reasonably successful.
I think Plone World Day as a whole was very sucessful too. I mean, any event where you can get hundreds of people in 22 countries around the world to coordinate like this necessarily did something right.
That said, I think next year we should start promotion a lot earlier, and perhaps establish some common objectives for the various local events. At least some people that I think we should have reached weren't even aware that there was a Plone Day at all.
These comments in no way are meant to take anything away from the great efforts by People like Roberto Allende, the main organizer for this worldwide event, or Gerry Kirk, who did a great job promoting the event these last few days, but I think we should also learn from the experience and come back stronger for World Plone Day 2009.
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