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last modified July 10, 2008 by joelburton

Welcome to the 'Wiki-space' for organising the Kiwi Bootcamp and Sprint 2009

Overview

We are organising a Plone Bootcamp in Wellington, New Zealand for around February 2009 with a Plone Sprint to follow. If you are interested in participating in either the bootcamp or the post-bootcamp sprint, please signup.

Goals

Our main goal is to have 35-40 attend the bootcamp (at about $NZD650/person - final price TBC), with at least 15 committed in advance to cover Joel Burton's travel/accommodation expenses. We do also have other goals around sourcing a venue, catering, etc, which are outlined below.
Some Notes From Joel on How Bootcamps Work .

Planning

  • Source a venue (we do have a couple of potential candidates for this already - TBC).
  • Source catering, particularly for the bootcamp attendees but the sprint attendees will also take generous contributions :).
  • Source sponsorship: potential sponsors at this stage are those currently sponsoring NZPUG (mostly book sponsors for giveaways), Google, 3months, Catalyst IT, Obsidian. Other possible sponsors could be: The Python Papers, NZ-based Plone consultancies, Mac's brewery (and any other local breweries), any local coffee roasteries, screen-printing firms for Sprint T-Shirts, any of the current sponsors of the Wellington Geekzone pizza evenings. Sponsors could provide anything from financial support, food/drink, a venue, marketing, clothing, internet connectivity, giveaways or anything else that will be helpful in running/promoting the bootcamp/sprint! 
  • Determine attendees: to indicate your interest in attending either the Plone Bootcamp or the Plone Sprint, please enter your name under the appropriate heading on the attendees page - thanks!
  • Find some cheap accommodation for attendees from out-of-town: contact some cheap Wellington hostels and also ask around to see if any local Pythonistas/etc would be willing to have some stay at their houses.   (note from Joel: I stayed my last night in the "backpackers hostel" by the train station, and it was inexpensive and just fine)
  • Finalise a date: the bootcamp will be 1 week in length and at this stage it would seem best to sprint over the weekend. It has been suggested that we tie the bootcamp in with Webstock so that Joel can give a presentation there and this will contribute towards his airfares. Based on past Webstocks this would put the Plone bootcamp/sprint at the beginning of February (possibly the second week) but if we can avoid it, we don't want to conflict with other major Plone events worldwide (Plone conference, symposiums, sprints) or even major NZ FOSS events (e.g. Kiwi Foo Camp).  (note from Joel: that's fine, but I'm not too worried about airfare. Pick the time when most people could come! :-) )
  • Finalise payment/registration details: contact Joel and finalise registration process, course price, etc.
  • Finalise Sprint topics - we'd like to be as inclusive as possible with our sprint topics so as to allow as many from the NZ Python community as possible to attend. Some potential topics are listed on the Sprint topics page.
  • Contact Plone Core developers around world and personally invite them to attend sprint: Tim Knapp to contact Plone Core developers around world and personally invite them to attend this inaugural NZ Plone sprint.
  • Advertise, advertise, advertise! - send an email to local usergroups (particularly Python ones), Plone mailing lists (sprint/announce/users/developers), put an event up on plone.org, announce in IRC, blog about it, spread the word!

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Pictures

None yet but watch this space :)