At our August, 2008 Plone NYC Users Group meetup we discussed plans for having our own event on World Plone Day 2007, which is Tuesday, November 7th.

It was agreed that the audience we would target would be Plone developers and others who may be interested in using Plone.

The event will be hosted at Hunter College under the supervision of Clarence Feng. Clarence has tentatively secured Chris Warner, the CMS manager at NY Magazine as a keynote speaker.

I encourage others to use this forum and mailing list to continue the discussion.

My CIO has approved hosting World Plone Day at Hunter. Guess it should get put up where Plone is tracking the cities hosting an event.

As Robert mentioned, Chris Warner was kind enough to say he'd put together an outline- although things will be very busy in September. I'd suggest we continue to search all types of presenters and topics, hopefully to narrow down the list in the September meeting.

The Plone user group meeting was a good one- we got a good bit accomplished toward World Plone Day in NYC. Action items:
- Hunter location to be determined by Oct. 1 (Clarence)
- Info to be hosted on web at plonenyc.org (Robert Burgoyne)
- Commitment to WPD in openplans (Juan Carlos Leon)
- Outreach to possible speakers in ACM (Eric Tyrer)
- Publicize WPD-NYC in IRC (Chris Warner); Facebook (JC Leon); Plone users list

Known items:
- It will be a half-day session, starting about 9am
- Two speakers now on board (Robert Burgoyne and Chris Warner)
- York college will help with producing signs and graphics (Erice Tyrer and Rafael Nunez)

This is a collation of information and items that have actions or people attached to them:

http://www.openplans....
Registered Hunter as NYC site (JC Leon)
Address for Google swag (Google contributing some items to sites hosting WPD)

http://www.plonenyc.o...
PloneNYC.org for more info (Rob't Burgoyne)

Registration at NY Plone User's Group meetup
plone.meetup.com > 4 <http://plone.meetup.c...

Logo, other designs & signage (York)
york.cuny.edu > Members > Rafaelnunez > Plonenyc.org <http://york.cuny.edu/...

Advertising NYC WPD
Plone Facebook page (JC Leon)
IRC (Chris Warner)
Plone users list (?)

Topics
New York (magazine) and Plone, Chris Warner
What is Plone, Robert Burgoyne
Plone as a CMS for Hunter College, Lisa Decker, Clarence Feng, Jacob Radford

Agenda (tentative)
8:30-9:30 refreshments, lightning topics?
9:30-10:30 keynote
10:30-11:30
11:30-12:30
12:30-1:30
Lunch?

Location
Hunter Distance Learning Center, 129 East 79th Street (between Park and Lex), 6th floor?
Parking garages at 80th between 2nd & 3rd, 77th between 3rd & Lex

Logistic support on day of
Lobby signs
Alerting security
Greeter
Refreshments