Plone Symposium East 2008

A lot of you know that I adore this little open source content management system called Plone. I've been lucky enough to spend that last week here at Penn State University, attending the Plone Symposium East. I have to say it was a fantastic experience. While most of the topics were over my head, I still managed to gleam a few nuggets that will help me in my never ending quest to document Plone. I've been using Plone since 2004 and started volunteering for the Plone Documentation team in 2005. I am a very basic user...I know what Python is and I'm slowly trying to learn it, though I get distracted easily. I can say it is easier to learn than C++. I am not a programmer and never will be, that's for sure. That's part of the beauty of Plone...you don't have to be a genius to use this extremely powerful tool. But I digress...
The symposium was wonderful. One of the best parts about being involved in the Plone community is the people. PSU has a particularly great group here in their Weblion office. You could not hope for a better group of people running your web site (or to have as your friends). The Weblion folks put on a great gathering and are the best host/hostesses you could have. Sure, State College, PA is just a little bit in the middle of nowhere...but with the success of this conference, I suspect we'll all be returning next year. Plus, there are worst ways to spend a week than being surrounded by a bunch of geeky guys getting really excited over elegant code. A geek girl's dream come true.