World Plone Day Toronto 2008

Toronto Plone Users presents

Plone, an enterprise content management system solution, is one of the largest open source projects on the planet.

The Plone community is organizing World Plone Day on November 7th, a world-wide event in over 20 countries and 5 continents to promote and educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using Plone in education, government, NGOs, and in business.

If you're curious about how Plone can help your organization manage a public facing website, or Intranet portal this is the time to meet with Plone experts and end-users.

The Toronto event features seminars, presentations and lectures covering the Plone technology and real world case studies.

A Q&A session will conclude the event.  Refreshments will be served.

Presentations

1:15 - 1:45 Introduction to Plone (Jordan Baker)

This introductory talk is aimed at managers and implementors who want a high-level view of Plone's capabilities as a web content management system, its place in the larger Open Source ecosystem, and maturity as a product.

2:00 - 2:30 Publishing, Collaborating and Sharing Knowledge, a case study (Hugh Ranalli)

A look at how one worldwide, very virtual organization uses Plone to work together, enable Web 2.0 user publishing and make the world a better place.

2:30 - 3:00 Networking Break

Meet Plone developers, integrators, users and service providers in your local area.

3:00 - 3:30 Getting Started with Plone - an Evaluation Guide (Jordan Baker)

In this introductory level talk Jordan will walk you through downloading, installing and starting to configure a Plone-based intranet site.  You'll see how you can quickly use the builtin features of Plone, and also how easy it is to make use of simple free add-on products.

3:45 - 4:15 Enterprise Collaboration Successes and Lessons Learned (Gord Gallant)

Corporations and governments have a need to provide a user-friendly collaboration service to its employees. Plone provides that service in a cost-effective way that also saves time and effort.  Getting staff to use Plone isn't difficlut ... Plone's functionality sells itself, provided the service has been demonstrated properly. 

4:30 - 5:00 Rapid Application Development using UML (John R. Southern)

Plone includes a variety of useful content types out-of-the-box and there are numerous products available to further expand this functionality. However, it is sometimes necessary to develop your own functionality. In this session, we'll introduce how to build a custom business application using visual tools and a model-driven development approach, with a focus on minimal coding requirements.

Venue

Center for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Ave. 4th floor from 1pm - 5pm.

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