Zope Europe kicks off 2003 in style, hosting a Zope 3 UI sprint and a Zope pavilion at the SolutionsLinux exhibition in Paris, showing Zope and making it known to the public. At Solutions Linux you will see familiar faces from the community: Alan Runyaga, Alexander Limi, Sidnei da Silva, Chris McDonough, Paul Everitt You have a chance to get to know companies like IngeniWeb, Pilot Systems, Logilab and Zope and Python Job Market and of course you can get comfortable with associations like Cocof, Savoie Technology and naturally Zope Europe. Aaand, then there is the release party of Plone 1.0. A small quote from a message written by Alexander Limi to plone developers list: " The release date for Plone 1.0 has been set, it will happen during the SolutionsLinux 2003 conference in Paris, the 6th of February. To celebrate the release, we will have announcements and waste some perfectly good champagne at the SolutionsLinux stand in Paris. You are welcome to join us in celebration at the stand. Later on we will gather up the Zopistas and Plonistas at the Zope Shack later that evening for some serious beer-drinking and socializing. You are of course invited to join us there too. " If you're not able to join us, or otherwise don't like to meet interesting persons of Zope world and drink champagne - don't feel too depressed. We will provide a nice blog with images from best parties - and later on even a set of video clips of most important moments. http://www.zope-europe.org/sl2003/