The document discusses plans for the Plone Symposium Tokyo 2015 conference to be held in Tokyo, Japan in order to increase awareness and usage of Plone in Japan and Asia. It provides details on the proposed event such as it being a one day symposium with two tracks and one day of development sprints, potentially in May-July 2015. It also discusses factors for increasing participant numbers such as international guest speakers and promotion in developer communities. The document encourages involvement and asks for speaker and planning session participation.

1. Recent topics about
Plone in Japan
Manabu TERADA
@tepyon
Plone Foundation member / Plone Users Group Japan
Board Chairman of PyCon JP

2. 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)

4. 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

5. 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
Institutes
But, no obvious increase of developers or users...

6. We wish to
spread Plone usage
in Japan
(or even more in Asia!)

7. So,

8. Plone Symposium
Tokyo 2015
Held next year!!

9. 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.

10. Targets
- Web engineers
(Especially to Python engineers)
- Users who want to know more about Plone
- People considering using CMS tools

11. 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

12. 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)

13. Key factors to get more participants
● To have interesting sessions for engineers
(ex. Guest speakers
from abroad)

14. 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!

15. One more thing

16. FAQ - Tokyo
● Is English Ok?
● Expensive?
● Safety?

17. FAQ - Tokyo
● Is English Ok? → Yes / No
● Expensive? → NO!!
● Safety? → YES

18. See you next year
in Tokyo