UH hosts Ploneability Higher Education Conference

Click here to download Conference Presentations Presenters and topics included:

• Alan Runyan, Plone project cofounder, on what’s next in open-source content management
• Kurt Bendl on the University of Louisville’s Plone rollout (more than 150 sites and counting), which has produced benefits for content managers, marketing and IT
• Christian Vinten-Johansen and Mike Halm on Penn State’s WebLion, a customized version of Plone plus consulting, development and training services
• Cameron Cooper on Connexions, the collaborative, Plone-powered course materials repository that was launched at Rice University and has received substantial news media attention
• Josten Ma on how nearly 40 Plone sites and a custom skinning product support the University of Houston’s effort to reach the top tier of U.S. research institutions

More Plone Event in November
The following adjacent event will be held:

• Friday, Nov. 9: Christian Vinten-Johansen and Mike Halm of Penn State will hold a meeting at Rice University to discuss collaboration on higher ed Plone products. Seating is limited. For information, please e-mail Christian at cjohansen@psu.edu.

In addition to TLC², the conference is also supported by Enfold Systems, a leading provider of Windows integrated open source content management solutions. Enfold provides consulting services for Zope and Plone for higher education, business, government, and non-profit organizations.

Plone is a content management framework that works hand-in-hand and sits on top of Zope, a widely-used Open Source web application server and development system. To use Plone, you don't need to learn anything about Zope; to develop new Plone content types, a small amount of Zope knowledge is helpful, and it is covered in the documentation.

Zope itself is written in Python, an easy-to-learn, widely-used and supported Open Source programming language. Python can be used to add new features to Plone, and used to understand or make changes to the way that Zope and Plone work.

By default, Plone stores its contents in Zope's built in transactional object database, the ZODB. There are products and techniques, however, to share information with other sources, such as relational databases, LDAP, filesystem files, etc.

Plone runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and many other platforms; double-click installers are available for Windows and Mac OS X, and RPM packages are available for Linux.

• Download Conference Presentations
• Ploneability Higher Ed: ploneability.eventbrite.com
• Enfold Systems: www.enfoldsystems.com