Roberto Allende gave the talk "Plone Cono Sur: creating a Plone users group from scratch" telling his experiences as co-founder of the Plone Cono Sur initiative.
Plone Cono Sur, creating a Plone users group from scratch
The talk started 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.

Roberto Allende, Nicolas Bossut, Joel Lambillotte and
Xavier Heymans, members of the PloneGov project
PloneGov
Menttes was invited to take part in the PloneGov's panel. As Latin American contact for PloneGov, Roberto Allende told different experiences done in order to promote the project in the region.Sprints
After the conference there were three days for sprints. Many people took part of the activities and on of them were KSS, Funittest, extreme-management, PloneGov, New Example Skins y Plone4Artists.
Members of Plone4Artists and contributors
during the sprint
