Roberto Allende

I'm co-founder of PloneConoSur, the Latin American contact for PloneGov Project and i'm very interested to continue working promoting plone on my region and worldwide.

Who am i

I'm a Plone activist and also a consultant working at menttes. I work with Plone since 3 years now. Some of my contributions are:

• Plone Community initiatives:Plone Cono Sur (cofounder),

  Plone Gov

  (Plonegov contact in South America)

• Plone talks in Free Software Conventions or other kind of events: 12+1 ( 4 during 2006, 8 during 2007) + 1 in PloneConf
  
• Free Plone Courses (courses oriented to promote plone cono sur or plonegov): 2 (during 2007)

• Software Sites moved to Plone for free (tasks oriented to promote plone and plone cono sur):

  1

  &

  1/2

  (under construction)
  

• Translated material: 2 (a tutorial and a plone3 blog entry)

• Articles published: 2 (

  about plone

  and

  plone in gov

  )

• Coordination/Organizer: 2 (

  PloneConoSur First meeting

  :

  10 talks

  ,

  2 free courses

  ,

  a getpaid sprint

  ) - PloneGov Sprint (technical issues, plonegov website)

• Website Administration:PloneConoSur site at plone.org and some contributions at

  PloneGov

  -

  CommunesPlone

  
  

• MailingList Administration:

  PloneConoSur

  -

  PloneGovMembers

I've been involved on

, also organized a

wich met 2000 persons in August 2007.

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Why i am interested

I'm interested to work to promote the use of  Plone and contribute with community foundation, in particular I'm focused on Spanish-speaker market, although i'm interested to contribute on other places too. I usually travel to Free Software conventions promoting plone, organizing mini courses, just to promote Plone and its communities.
 

What do i think i can add to the Plone Foundation

• Work to make the Plone community grow. I'm focused on user groups i would love to support the creation of new users groups worldwide.
  
• Since my previous experiences, i strongly believe i can help getting finantial support (in case it's needed)
• I'd like to participate and then contribute on strategical discussions.
  
• I'm interested to promote plone on non-english markets. I'd like to contribute and work in order to have plone support in other languages.
  

PF members that "second" my nomination

• Xavier Heymans
• Godefroid Chapelle
  
• Nate Aune
• Maik Röder

I also have the support of non plone foundation members:

• Facundo Batista - Argentina
  Core Python Developer, member By Merit of the Python Software Foundation
• Erico Andrei
  Python Brazil Marketin Leader