Plone has announced Symposium for year 2008, it will be held at Penn State University in scenic State College, PA.

The Symposium will feature presentations, tutorials, hands-on training, and networking opportunities for developers, designers, integrators, technical writers, and users of Plone. One session track will be devoted to the unique needs of institutions of higher education using Plone. There will also be development sprints chosen and organized by Plone community leaders and developers.

This is the schedule:

• Training - March 10 and 11
• Symposium sessions March 12 and 13
• Sprints any time during March 8-16. Exact dates will be decided by leaders of each sprint.
• Symposium wiki: sprint organization, birds of a feather, message board

You can go ahead and register here: http://soar.ois.psu.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/SOAR.woa/wa/campusRegister?productId=200708SP017411

Plone is looking for proposals to give a presentation, so Sign up here.

What is plone? you might ask, well Plone is a content management framework that works hand-in-hand and sits on top of Zope, a widely-used Open Source web application server and development system. To use Plone, you don’t need to learn anything about Zope; to develop new Plone content types, a small amount of Zope knowledge is helpful, and it is covered in the documentation.

So they are looking for Marketing materials for their Plone Strategic Planning Summit and if you ever sold Plone to a customer, had created any Plone marketing materials to help make the sale, ever presented Plone at a conference that isn’t a Plone conference, or represented Plone at a trade show you can send your materials to

marketing@plone.org

They are also looking donators to cover the travel costs for key participants to attend Plone Strategic Planning Summit which will be held February 8-10, at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California.

however:

The Plone Foundation will match all funds contributed by the Plone community dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $5000. This means that a $100 donation to the Plone Foundation ends up generating $200 in travel scholarships for the Planning Summit!

You can donate here: http://www.chipin.com/contribute/id/442a64afab6af3f9