Hi All<br><br>I live in Melbourne Australia and am the Coordinator of OzZope the Australian Zope Users Group (since 2001). <span class="link-external"></span> Although OzZope no longer holds regular meetings the <span class="link-external"></span><a href="http://lists.ozzope.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ozzope" target="_self">mailing list</a> is a good place for local companies looking for Zope expertise and for developers looking for Australian based Zope and Plone jobs. Current membership of the OzZope mailing list is 142 people.<br>
<br>As coordinator in the past year I've helped:<br><br>o companies looking for local Zope/Python developers<br>o a European based Zope/Python developer get a visa and work in Australia<br>o helped an overseas Zope company with their tender for a large Australian utility<br>
o found reviewers for Python based books for the UK publishers Packt Pub<br>o via the mailing list I've encouraged and seeded debate on handling ignorant managers and cowboy developers within an organisation.<br><br>
In December I wrote a guide for editors of the <a href="http://computerbank.org.au/">http://computerbank.org.au/</a> website.<br><br>I run a part time business maintaining and hosting Plone websites for a handful of clients. I am in the happy position of being semi retired after decades in the full time workplace.<br>
<br>The Zope Foundation Board interests me because I care about quality open source software. While I am not a Python developer I have an engineering background. For many years I worked in broadcast engineering as a technical operator and later as a journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. For the past 5 years I was Vice President of Computerbank. Computerbank uses volunteers to recycle donated computers with open source software and then distribute them to the disadvantaged.<br>
<br>Further information about me at: <a href="http://curpheymedia.com/">http://curpheymedia.com/</a><br><br>Regards,<br><br>Jan Smith<br>Director<br>Curphey Media<br>Melbourne, Australia.<br><br>