Recent topics about Plone in Japan

Manabu TERADA@tepyon

Plone Foundation member / Plone Users Group JapanBoard Chairman of PyCon JP

PyCon JP 2014

● Held on Sep 2014 in Tokyo (Every year since 2011)○ 1 day Tutorial session○ 2 days Conference ○ 1 day Development Sprints

● 545 participants● 3 tracks (including an English track)

PyCon JP 2014

● Conducted a session about Plone https://pycon.jp/2014/schedule/presentation/24/

● About 100 people attended● Contents

○ Plone Basics & History○ About Plone 5 ○ Plone community

Market situation in Japan- # of Python developers increasing- Among them, on the Web playground

Django developers are a great majority- Some developers use Pyramid

Plone is well known among Universities and InstitutesBut, no obvious increase of developers or users...

We wish to spread Plone usage

in Japan (or even more in Asia!)

So,

Plone Symposium Tokyo 2015

Held next year!!

Purpose & goals

● To increase the presence of Plone in Japan

● To let more people know about Plone in Japan

● For these purposes, it is important to hold an international event of 100 participants or more.

Targets

- Web engineers (Especially to Python engineers)

- Users who want to know more about Plone- People considering using CMS tools

Event Descriptions● Date (planned) : May - July 2015 #Weekend● Place : Tokyo, Japan● Participants (estimated) : 100 - 150 ● 1 Day Symposium with 2 track sessions

○ Assumed 1 or 2 Keyonote speakers from overseas○ Track 1 theme : Plone as a CMS○ Track 2 theme : Plone, the leading product of the

Zope technology ● 1 Day Development Sprints

Key factors to get more participants

● To have interesting sessions for engineers(ex. Guest speakers from abroad)

● Exposure to tech media● Enough promotion in engineer communities

(like PyCon JP participants)

Key factors to get more participants

● To have interesting sessions for engineers

(ex. Guest speakers from abroad)

Everybody, please!!

● Speakers wanted!● Any ideas, comments are greatly welcome!● Please come to Japan!!

I will have a planning session day after tomorrow in the Open Space.

Please come and join!

One more thing

FAQ - Tokyo

● Is English Ok?● Expensive?● Safety?

FAQ - Tokyo

● Is English Ok? → Yes / No● Expensive? → NO!!● Safety? → YES

See you next year in Tokyo