[EuroPython] Promotion of Zope in Europe

[Olivier Deckmyn]

Hi Nicolas,

I am happy to see that I am not the only one to have such ideas ;-)

We have 3 ideas to promote Zope :

1/ Zope Pavillion :
On each major exhibit we should buy a big pavillion where each suscribing
company could have its booth. I am sure that Zope Corp would send us some=
one
for major exhibits. This pavillion would be "Zope Pavillion". It would be
huge ; like the one that "Oracle solutions providers" have at major exhib=
it
(well...may be not as big !)
We (IngeniWeb) were at ComDex Paris (Online 2002) last week, and a _lot_ =
of
people were attracted by our solutions and by the Zope flag. Ask Paul.

2/ Paper ads :
Buy magazine ads. This is only a country-wide solution. Zope Solution
Providers should buy a full page with an ad for Zope together, with a lis=
t
of their logo/name/url at the bottom of the page.

3/ Banners :
Buy Internet ads. The banner, zope-centric would redirect to a page where
subscribing companies would have a short summary of their solutions and a
link.

I have no "free" solution : participating ZSPs have to give money to be
there.

On each solution, all ZSPs have to take part of the game. One need to hav=
e a
Zope centric organiser. This could be EuroZope. This could be
something/somebody else. The most important thing is that it(he) must be
Zope centric, not "vendor" centric.

ZSPs have to understand they have to work together to get a bigger market.

All this should make Zope 10x bigger.

Please comment ;)

Olivier.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolas Pettiaux" <nicolas.pettiaux@openbe.org>
To: <eurozope@comlounge.net>
Cc: <europython@python.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:49 AM
Subject: [EuroPython] Promotion of Zope in Europe


Dear members of the Eurozope list,

I try to promote Zope as much as I can around Brussels, and as such
participate as much as I can, and not enough recently, to the organisatio=
n
of
the Europython event.

The actions about done by Eurozope and the Europython/zope conferences ar=
e
really good but I feel more has to be done if we want t achieve the succe=
ss
Zope deserve as a recent personnal experience shows.

This is especially true in order to compete with other Application server=
s
as
I have hardly experienced recently (especially java jboss/tomcat)

I would like herewith to start a reflexion process that could lead to mor=
e
visibility, first through the Europython conference.

Please also consider to help with the organisation of the Europython
conference.

I am wondering how we could professionalize the activities that Eurozope
could manage and, similarly, extend Eurozope.

Thank you for you ideas and contribution,

Nicolas

PS I will be away till April 12, out or reach of any computer.

--
Nicolas Pettiaux
Avenue du P=E9rou 29
B-1000 Brussels


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