Government: Buenos Aires

Our day began one block away from the Casa Rosada (Pink House), the place where the Argentinian president works. We gave a Plone and PloneGov introductory talk in the National Planning Ministry. Most of the attendees were from the national ministries, agencies and others gubernamental organizations.

The Casa Rosada (Pink House),
just one block away from the WPD Host

 A Plone and PloneGov talk in the
Planning Ministry of the Argentinian National Government

Education: Buenos Aires and Cordoba

After midday we focused on education. Emanuel Sartor gave a talk at the Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics of the National University in Córdoba. And I gave an open and free, as in beer, Plone Introductory course at the Library of Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. 

Emanuel Sartor in
National University of Cordoba

A Plone introductory course in the
University of Buenos Aires

Floss Community: Salta

After flying 1800km and as bonus track of the World Plone Day, during Saturday 8th, i gave a Plone talk and the Plone introductory course, also for free, in a Free Software Convention in Salta, a city in northwestern Argentina and the capital city of the Salta Province.

A Plone talk in a Free Software Convention in Salta

Press and WPD promotion

As I said before, reaching medias is very important and it takes time. 20% of the media we contacted gave World Plone Day coverage. One traditional and important newspaper from Cordoba, where i live, and a very important argentinian IT magazine:

• Comercio y justicia (english version translated by google)
• Canal-ar  (english version translated by google)

And of course, we had the support of many free software communities in Southamerica. Some of these were USLA, Solar, Free Software Community of Bolivia and many others who knew from us and Eneko's post in Barrapunto.

Conclusions

Our activities in Argentina met 50 persons aprox. and we gave training for another 25.  We reached  two important medias in Argentina and Eneko made an awesome job reaching the spanish version of Slashdot. Considering its the first edition of the World Plone Day, we are very excited for the results. Now we start to work and think how to double these numbers in 2009 :).