Summary of First Meeting

Thanks to everyone who showed up last night at the formation meeting for Plone Lounge! These meeting notes were recorded by Joel Burton

Who Came

• We had about 25 people that showed up

• About one-half of the group considered themselves current Plone developers,

integrators, or consultants

• About one-half were interested, but not currently serious users of Plone.

• About one-third or one-fourth of the group didn't hadn't really used Plone

at all or very much.

What People Wanted

• The most popular desire (shared by almost everyone) was to learn more about

Plone by having regular presentations at the meetings

• Many, but not all people were also interested in doing community-development

stuff with Plone (eg, help build a site for a cool nonprofit)

• Some, but not all, were interested in sprinting/working to make the Plone

software better

• Some, but not all, were interested in networking/business development stuff

Working Groups

We created 3 simple working groups:

web: help build a functional site at plonelounge.org so members can look
there for information, announcements, etc. David Siedband
<david@generation-xml.com> is the person to email if you're interested in
that

meetings: make sure that we have talks/events scheduled at meetings, and
issue invites to speakers. Gautham Hegde <gautham@cignex.com> is the person
to email if you're interested in that

announcements: make sure that the world knows about us! send out the
announcements to our various related communities. Blue Fire
<bluefire@burningman.com> is the person to email if you're interested in
that.

I offered to make the contacts with the publishers (Apress, ORA, etc.) that
give books to user groups.

Spanky offered to do some meta-coordination; ie, make sure that the work
groups have what they need

Meetings

We decided to meet once a month, at the Burning Man offices. Spanky will
select the dates for the meetings for now.