Washington, DC is home to the second-oldest Plone/Zope user group in the world (after Germany). It's hotbed of major Plone customers, including US government agencies, corporations, national-scale nonprofits and educational institutions. There's never been a Plone Conference on the east coast of North America. Finally, Plone Conference 2007 was held in Naples, Italy, and the board (as well as many Plone Foundation members) expressed a strong desire to see the conference location continue rotate amongst the continents.