The talk starts describing the plan and actions made in order to create Plone Cono Sur (aka plonosur). Plonosur is a Plone User Group for spanish speaker from people from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. It was started in January 2007 and today is one of the most active Plone local communities. The first Plonosur meeting will be during the Jornadas Regionales de Software libre with more than 10 talks, two free developer courses and a PloneGetPaid sprint (last year in the same event there were just one talk). The talk main objective is to discuss about Plone marketing actions and how to practice Plone advocacy and ilustrate them with Plone Cono Sur experiences.

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Plone Cono Sur
Creating a Plone user group
from scratch
Roberto Allende
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Community as an
innovation machine
Roberto Allende
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6. when i met Plone...

9.
copyrighted material: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pinky_and_the_Brain_vol1.jpg

17.
http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/homebrew_and_how_the_apple.php

19. what ?

20.
GrULiC demoday 2003

21.
GrULiC installfest 2007

22.
GrULiC demoday 2003

23.
16th GrULiC - Installfest

24.
16th GrULiC - Installfest

25.
7JRSL 2007

26.
7JRSL 2007

27.
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28. why ?

29.
generic photo from every user group meeting

30. ... so here [plone community] we
see the importance of personally
knowing each
other. This I believe is the main
success factor of Plone:
people drink beer together!
Bernard
4teamwork
generic photo from every user group meeting

31. Every time a new person, group,
business, or organization experiences
GNU/Linux's inherent value, the
movement grows. LUGs help that
happen.
Rick Moen
Linux User Group HOWTO

33.
plone gov sprint - Belgium

35. Plone, the software
is an artifact of Plone,
the community
Paul Everitt
(Martin's book)

36. why you ?

37.
ploneconf 2007 - Darci Hanning

38.
ploneconf 2007 - Darci Hanning

39. why me ?

41. need for Plone developers
(human resource)
create Plone demand
(sales)

42. where ?

43. NGO
education GOV
enthusiasts
users Industry
& others

44. NGO

45. GOV

46. Industry

47. education

48. enthusiasts
users
& others

49. NGO
education GOV
Community
enthusiasts
users Industry
& others

50. NGO
education GOV
Community
enthusiasts
users Industry
& others

52. mature...

53. artifact
and
community

54. meta project
artifact
and
community

55. meta projectc
artifact
and
community
lobby power

57. ADVOCACY

58. free software conventions in 2 years
Mendoza, Mendoza, Buenos Aires, Córdoba
Porto Alegre (Brasil), Santa Fe

61. INTRODUCTION TALK
● Divide and conquer: Plone is an application
● Uses Cases
oxfam, cc, linux foundation, fsf, lf, unitednations, ammesty,
cnnexpansion, nokia
● Reuse! -> Content Types
● Plone 3 features
Jon Stahl's blog (8 things...)
● Multiple users & security
openplans on action!
● Workflow
● Search Engine and multilanguage
● Support
plone.net, books, mailing list, irc

62.
http://www.openplans.org

69. EDUCATION

75. SUPPORT

76. ONLINE SUPPORT
● plone.org section on countries
● mailing list: plone-conosur@plone.org
● irc channel: #plone-conosur|

77. SOCIALIZATION

78.
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79. OTHERS

80. 7as Jornadas de Software Libre

82. RESULTS &
SOME NUMBERS
how's the plone community right now on the region

83. ● City Using Plone: 1
● PloneGov member: 1
● Universities using plone: 2 (faculties)
● NGO Using Plone:
● Free Software Communities using
Plone: 1 ½
● Barrapunto: 2 times
● Plone Companies: 5 (2 new in this year)
● People on mailing list: 85

84. CHALLENGES
&
FUTURE

87. press

88. JUST DO IT!

89. FOCUS ON
ACTION!

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Thank you!
Roberto Allende
rallende@menttes.com
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