Annual Plone Conference 2006 to be held in Seattle
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The fourth annual Plone Conference will be held October 25-27, 2006 at the Seattle Center Northwest Rooms in Seattle, Washington USA. The host organization this year is ONE/Northwest, in collaboration with the Seattle and Portland Plone communities. This year, as in the past three editions: New Orleans in 2003 and Vienna in 2004 and 2005, the conference is aimed at promoting open source technologies and spreading the use of Plone.
Activities will cover technical and non-technical
topics, intended both for Plone experts (site administrators, Plone consultants
and core Plone developers) and for people who are new to this technology. The
exact session themes are yet to be confirmed as the call for proposals will
remain open till August 6th. If you are interested in proposing and leading a
session, see: http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-
2006/call-for-proposals
In addition to the 3-day conference portion of
the event, which will consist in talks, tutorials and workshops on the past,
present and future of Plone, there will likely be 1-2 day training sessions
before the conference, and a 2-day sprint afterwards. Also, social events such
as dinners, meetings and shows are usual around these gatherings. Early bird
registration (US$250) will be available until August 25th. Afterwards,
registration will be $300. You can register here or visit the
conference Website.
Plone is a leading Open Source technology for
Web content management used by non-profit organizations (e.g. Oxfam America),
large companies (Nokia,Lufthansa and eBay, among others), government
institutions and universities (see Plone sites).
Plone is an important part of ifPeople's Web technologies: it
has been used to build Web sites and
intranets, collaboration areas, and custom software. In addition, ifPeople has been widely
involved in the efforts towards marketing Plone and promoting this powerful Plone
technology. To this end, ifPeople sponsored a course on Plone and Zope in 2005 and has recently participatied in the production of a major resource for Plone
users: the Plone Application Programming Interface (API). This guide, which
provides a convenient way for developers to manipulate Plone, its content,
users, and other objects using scripts, is aimed to make more end-user
documentation available and is currently available in both English and Spanish.
