Dear ZPUGsters:

Yesterday, I accepted a full-time position with CIGNEX, a San Jose-based, Open 
Source development company. I'll be starting in a few weeks as their
Director of Open Source Solutions. In this capacity, I'll be managing
their Zope/Plone development group (along with a much smaller group
dedicated to LAMP development). More importantly for the overall community,
though, I'll also be acting as their advisor on how to give back to
the Plone community, how to raise their visiblity within the
community, and how to grow the market for Plone.

Of course, this means I'll be moving to San Francisco, which is pretty far 
from ZPUG meetings ;). As such, we'll need to transition most of my 
resonsibilities at ZPUG to other people.

I will still be around to teach the Plone bootcamp, of course--keeping 
committments like this was part of my negotiation with CIGNEX. If need be, 
I'll be flying back into the area to be here for that week, and they'll cover 
my expenses for it.

As I see it, the ZPUG responsibilities are:

- maintainance of the ZPUG web site (listing meetings, approving the rare 
piece of submitted news, etc.)

- scheduling speakers

- sending out notices/reminders of news

- hosting the meetings (being there to start meetings, making sure projector 
works, etc.) [this is probably best done as a tag team of two, since, as 
everyone knows, I couldn't be around for many meetings as just me.]

I think it makes sense to email me (directly, to joel(at)joelburton.com) with 
offers to pick up any of these parts, and, once we get things pretty covered, 
I can work with those parties to handle things.

San Francisco has a rather-dormant Python Interest Group, and no Zope/Plone 
groups at all, so I'd expect, pretty soon, that there will be a ZPUGSF as a 
sister organization! And, of course, now all card-carrying ZPUGDC members 
will have a futon to crash at if you want to come explore the Bay Area.

It's been a tremendous pleasure and honor starting this group and getting to 
know everyone. I hope we continue our friendships and that the group 
continues to find much success.

... and, of course, this means will have to have a no-presentation, 
all-drinking-and-pool-playing meeting to see me off sometime soon ;)

Best,

- j.

Good luck Joel!  I enjoyed getting to know you in the DC area and look forward
to hearing about you in the future!
 
Best wishes,
Michael Johnson

Joel Burton <joel(at)joelburton.com> wrote:
Dear ZPUGsters:

Yesterday, I accepted a full-time position with CIGNEX, a San Jose-based, Open 
Source development company. I'll be starting in a few weeks as their
Director of Open Source Solutions. In this capacity, I'll be managing
their Zope/Plone development group (along with a much smaller group
dedicated to LAMP development). More importantly for the overall community,
though, I'll also be acting as their advisor on how to give back to
the Plone community, how to raise their visiblity within the
community, and how to grow the market for Plone.

Of course, this means I'll be moving to San Francisco, which is pretty far 
from ZPUG meetings ;). As such, we'll need to transition most of my 
resonsibilities at ZPUG to other people.

I will still be around to teach the Plone bootcamp, of course--keeping 
committments like this was part of my negotiation with CIGNEX. If need be, 
I'll be flying back into the area to be here for that week, and they'll cover 
my expenses for it.

As I see it, the ZPUG responsibilities are:

- maintainance of the ZPUG web site (listing meetings, approving the rare 
piece of submitted news, etc.)

- scheduling speakers

- sending out notices/reminders of news

- hosting the meetings (being there to start meetings, making sure projector 
works, etc.) [this is probably best done as a tag team of two, since, as 
everyone knows, I couldn't be around for many meetings as just me.]

I think it makes sense to email me (directly, to joel(at)joelburton.com) with 
offers to pick up any of these parts, and, once we get things pretty covered, 
I can work with those parties to handle things.

San Francisco has a rather-dormant Python Interest Group, and no Zope/Plone 
groups at all, so I'd expect, pretty soon, that there will be a ZPUGSF as a 
sister organization! And, of course, now all card-carrying ZPUGDC members 
will have a futon to crash at if you want to come explore the Bay Area.

It's been a tremendous pleasure and honor starting this group and getting to 
know everyone. I hope we continue our friendships and that the group 
continues to find much success.

... and, of course, this means will have to have a no-presentation, 
all-drinking-and-pool-playing meeting to see me off sometime soon ;)

Best,

- j.
[...]

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 04:37 pm, Michael Johnson wrote:[...]

Thanks!

I'm not quite gone yet--it looks like Sally is bringing me in to do the 
training for TNC, probably in early or mid-May. Which means I probably won't 
move to SF until ~June 1.

I'll have some questions for you about TNC's currnet use of Zope/Plone, btw, 
since understanding what you're doing now will help me much in deciding 
what/how to teach.

- j.