[boston-pig] May Meeting

[Nate Aune]

>> Another issue that has come up again is Meetup.  They're asking  
>> for $$
>> again.  If there is anyone who feels strongly enough about keeping  
>> our
>> meetup membership to pay for it, then this would be a good time to  
>> step up.
>> Otherwise, I'll recommend that we just get a page on the Python  
>> Wiki with a
>> link to the mailing list at Wingware.
>
> I don't feel that Meetup really gives us all that much :-), so
> wouldn't seem to me to be much  benefit to it.

we are soon going to be migrating our Boston Plone meetup.com page to  
a Plone site at http://bostonplone.org
if fact, if anyone would like to learn how to create a Plone skin for  
your website, Rob Baker (from Oxfam America) will be demonstrating it  
tonight at the Plone meetup. http://plone.meetup.com/1/events/4896205/

We'd be happy to share our experiences moving from meetup.com to  
Plone, in case the Python meetup group is interested in doing the  
same. Plone has a built-in member registration system and add-ons for  
events calendar, blogs, wikis, podcasts, discussion forums, job  
board, recommended books, searchable mailing list archives, etc.

see what they've done with these other Plone-based user group sites:

Zope/Python Users group of DC
http://www.zpug.org/

TriZPUG: Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
http://trizpug.org/

Seattle Plone Users Group
http://www.seattleplone.org

The advantage of using Plone is that we can share code with the  
various other Python user groups who are using Plone for such website  
features as event registration, employer<->jobseeker tools, mailing  
list integration, etc.

>> Finally, if there's anyone interested in taking over as organizer,  
>> let me
>> know.  It's easy enough for me to keep doing it, but if there's  
>> someone out
>> there who is energized and full of great ideas, I'm very willing  
>> to pass the
>> baton.

I would probably be interested, if I weren't already the meetup  
organizer for the Boston Plone meetup group and the Jazz meetup  
group. organizing two meetups every month is already a handful.

Nate