Plone Symposium South America 2012
The Plone community in South America, the PloneGov-BR and the Interlegis Program in 2012 promoted the 4th edition of Plone Symposium South America, from August 22nd to 24th in conjunction with V EnGITEC.
Plone comes home
The Brazilian Government is one of the biggest users of Plone with large portals like www.brasil.gov.br, www.camara.gov.br and www.tse.jus.br. A large part of the Brazilian Plone community lives or works in Brasilia and it was a natural move to host Plone Symposium South America there.
Organized by the PloneGovBr group and hosted by Interlegis, from August 22nd to 24th, followed by the Caipirinha Sprint on August 25th and 26th, the Plone Symposium South America had its fourth edition with Elizabeth Leddy and Nejc Zupan as keynotes.
Joining forces
Responsible for more than 400 active Plone sites, the Interlegis Program hosted the symposium and also the V EnGitec -- a conference for the Interlegis community.
Plone Symposium by numbers
This was the biggest Plone Symposium South America so far:
- 243 registered attendees
- 21 Talks
- 6 Training sessions
24 speakers from 5 countries
(Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Slovenia and USA)
- 18 Plone contributor agreements signed
- 3 cover stories on Jornal do Senado (August, 23th, August, 24th and August 27th)
All talks were streamed live (with a peak of 100 simultaneous users) and videos will soon be available on the symposium site.
The Sprint
The Caipirinha Sprint gathered more than 20 people during the weekend and some achievements were:
- plone.api and PloneIDE improvements
- Kick off for the plone.api.json
- Internationalization of buildout.coredev docs (Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish)
- The Plone TODO Tutorial is almost finished
- Bug fixes on plone.app.collection
Also, it is worth mentioning that 6 people contributed code for the first time to Plone core. Some of them were long time Plonistas but never had the opportunity to move from the collective to the core.
Elizabeth Leddy wrote a blog post about the first day of the sprint, you can read it here.
Pictures
Most of the pictures were posted on Instangram and Twitter under #plonesymposium but the organizers of V Engitec compiled albums for each one of the Plone Symposium days:
Our sponsors
The organization team for the Plone Symposium South America would like to thank the sponsors:
- Plone Foundation: Airplane tickets for Elizabeth Leddy and Nejc Zupan to come to Brazil
Tv1.Com: Airplane tickets from Argentina to Brazil for Franco Pellegrini and Juan Pablo Gimenez, also airplane tickets for
Elizabeth Leddy and Nejc Zupan from São Paulo to Brasilia.
PyTown:
Airplane tickets from Argentina to Brazil for
Emanual Sartor.
Simples Consultoria: Hotel accommodations for
for Elizabeth Leddy and Nejc Zupan in São Paulo.
Senado Federal: Hotel accommodations for
for Elizabeth Leddy, Fabiano Weimar and Nejc Zupan in Brasilia and airplane tickets for Fabiano Weimar.
About Interlegis
The Interlegis Program was the result of a desire to bring together in a single community all of Brazil’s federal, state and local legislative bodies, aiming at their modernization, to enable them to improve their administrative and legislative procedures.