Hi, all.

We had a groovy meeting with the Plone Training Committee this evening 
and we'll be ready to roll everything out sometime on Thursday. We've 
got to check in on a few things tomorrow and then we'll be ready to 
roll.

In the mean time, you might want to get yourself a PayPal account if 
you don't already have one. PayPal, as you might know, allows you to 
create an electronic check or use your corporate/personal credit card 
to pay for the training. After a lot of deliberation it seems this is 
the most accessible and fair way for people to register.

If your company requires an honest-to-goodness paper receipt for your 
expenses we'll get you one should they deem a PayPal receipt "dodgy".

Registration dates, costs and other details will be in Thursday's 
announcement. And don't fret, you'll get a funky t-shirt as part of the 
registration package.

We're initially restricting training to those subscribed to the ZPUG-DC 
list as of this morning and those with a billing address in the 
DC/NoVA/MD areas. It is, after all, local training. There's only 35 
seats and I don't think we'll need open it up to the world -- however, 
a week after it's been offered to ZPUG-DC constituents, it'll be open 
to the world.

Please extend your virtual thanks to the tireless devotion of the 
alphabetized organizers:

	Alex Clark;
	Jonah Crawford;
	David Diskin;
	Bill Fergus; and
	Reed O'Brien

And a huge attaboy for Joel Burton, Plone Foundation Chairman, who's 
slimmed his usual corporate training rate to a sliver of its former 
self.

Cheers,
Jules

PS Just for fun go and Google 5 days of Java training and look at the 
costs. This course will be nowhere near this expensive!