... for selling out 125 seats for Joomla!Day West, to be held May 12-13 at Google HQ in just a few days.  Looks like it's going to be "un-conference" (e.g. community-organized sessions) style.

Who is going to step up and organize a North America Plone Symposium this year?  I'm guessing we could get space at Google. ;-)

From Joanna Springsteen comes the long awaited, "official" announcement of the Documentation
and E-Commerce sprint.

For all the details, please visit:

http://plone.org/events/sprints/doc-ecommerce

and

http://www.openplans.org/projects/doc-and-e-commerce-sprint

There is still room for a few more participants, and the organizers are still actively seeking sponsors.

Discover Magazine's new Plone-powered website just got Slashdotted.  Looks like this already-busy site is handling the traffic spike just fine. 

Perhaps predictably, the article Slashdot picked up on is about mapping links in the blogosphere.

Vincenzo Barone and the rest of the Plone Conference 2007 team are eager for your input as they start planning the agenda for this fall's conference in Naples, Italy. 

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=16563684237

(They've also announced the dates: October 10-12, with pre-conference trainings on October 8-9 and a post-conference sprint October 13-15.)

Alan is excited about Varnish (a new caching proxy that is simpler and faster than Squid).  Even better, the Varnish developers are planning a CMS best practices document. 

Great stuff.  I hope that setting up insanely fast caching for Plone is about to get a lot easier!