On Tuesday, my colleagues Andrew Burkhalter, Jon Baldivieso and I are heading down to New Orleans (!) where we’ll be attending Plone Symposium 2006, the annual gathering of the North America Plone community.

This will be the second annual Plone Symposium, and the third major Plone community event in New Orleans, and, most significantly (to me) my first big Plone event.

We’re giving a tutorial on Wednesday afternoon about our experiences implementing Plone for grassroots environmental nonprofits, in which we’ll share a bunch of the tips and tricks we’ve accumulated over the past two years and 50+ nonprofit websites we’ve launched using Plone. There’s so much I’m looking forward to: meeting all of the Plone folks whom I’ve previously only known by IRC nickname; getting to see New Orleans first-hand; meeting Plone users and developers from outside of my comfortable little nonprofit technology bubble. It’s going to be a great week.