South American tour of training and spreading of Plone and Python

Oct 21, 2008 04:08 PM
Menttes has gone on tour in order to spread and train in Python and Plone, during the lasts months and we keep doing it.

FISL9.0 and the Plone’s talk in the School of Astronomic and Geophysical Sciences from La Plata National University , were the beginning of a quite busy year, plain of events. We have travelled many kilometres thanks to the support of menttes and other organizations.

Plone’s spreading in San Francisco, Córdoba

May, 16th. and 17th. – Second Conference on Free Software in San Francisco

The National Technological University group has held the second edition of its Free Software event.
Menttes has given two talks in the program: “Why and how governments, scientists, universities and artists use Plone” by Roberto Allende and, “Introdution to Development of Plone” by Emanuel Sartor. In addition, members of Plone Southern cone held the Third Meeting of Plone Southern Cone.

San Francisco, Cba

menttes’ members in San Francisco, Córdoba

Plone’s spread in Buenos Aires University

July, 23th, School of Exact Sciences, Buenos Aires University. Held by Plone Southern Cone and IT professionals.

Roberto Allende gave a talk “Plone 3: a Swiss pocketknife to build portals and extranets. Professionals and students of computing and information sciences participated in the meeting.

Plone’s spread in Mérida, Venezuela

July, 7th to 11th, Mérida, Venezuela

Menttes was invited to take part in the Second Conference of Reflection, Research and Development of Free Technologies and the First Meeting Phyton Venezuela (PYVE), held by National Centre of Development and Research on Free Technologies (Centro Nacional de Desarrollo e Investigación en Tecnologías Libres, CENDITEL, its acronym in Spanish). In this event, they gave the talks: PloneGov: An international project of cooperation between governments open to Latin America and  Plone 3: a Swiss pocketknife to build portals and extranets.

Plone’s course in Mérida, Venezuela

July, 14th to 18th, Mérida, Venezuela

The course of Plone’s Development , held by CENDITEL Nodo Mérida, was given in the Free Software Academy. It lasted a week and developers from different Venezuelan regions have attended.
 

Plone Course in Venuezuela

Plone’s course in Mérida, Venezuela
picture: Elizabeth Garcia

Plone’s course in Escobar, Buenos Aires

July, 23th, Nicolás Avellaneda Institute, Escobar, Buenos Aires

The course Plone’s Administration of Contents was held by Nicolas Avellaneda Institute and menttes. Teachers and professional of computing and sciences of information have taken part in this course

Plone Course in Buenos Aires

Attendees to Course in Escobar

Python’s course in Montevideo, Uruguay

August, 6th to 9th,Montevideo, Uruguay.

UyLug, menttes and Artech held an introductory course on Python in Montevideo, Uruguay. Thanks to the excellent work of UyLug the course was very succesful and a new conference was added in order to allow around of fifty more people could take the Python’s Introductory Course.

Python Course in Uruguay

Attendees to Python’s Course in Uruguay
picture: Fernando de la Rosa

Spreading: Plone 3 in Montevideo, Uruguay

August, 9th, Montevideo, Uruguay

After the Pyton’s Course, UyLug along with the Computing Culture Foundation an open conference was held, in which Roberto Allende gave an introductory talk on Plone and Alejandro Cura, from PyAr, gave a talk on Games in Python and a mini tutorial (quick tutorial?) in applications development for OLPC.


Python Course in Uruguay

Gabriel Icasuriaga, Roberto Allende, Federico Wagner
Enrique Verdes, organizers of events in Uruguay

 

Python Course in Uruguay

Attendees to the spreading conference
pictures: Fernando de la Rosa

Spreading: Free Software Convention Jujuy, Argentina

August, 29th and 30th, Jujuy, Argentina

The 3rd Conference UNJu 2008 was held by School of Engineering from National University of Jujuy (Universidad Nacional de Jujuy) and the Users’ community of Free Software from Jujuy. Different specialists in Free Software, at national and regional levels have participated of the event. Thanks to an excellent organization, the conference gathered experts and enthusiasts in the subject. The introductory talk to Plone 3 was given by Roberto Allende.
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3as Jornadas SL Jujuy

Speakers in Jujuy

2008 is not over

Last Friday we had been in San Juan and we keep promoting Plone. Our agenda includes:

 

Translation by: Ivana Yankilevich

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