Plone Conference Grows

The annual international conference that brings together leaders and newcomers in the Plone community was a great success! Organized by OneNW, a non-profit technology organization in Seattle, the conference was the biggest and best yet, with four tracks of learning and great representation for different users: education/universities, government, companies, and civil society. ifPeople's Chris Johnson participated in the event in October and also faciliated a "Birds of a Feather" session on ecommerce and presented work on a medical sciences database tool for Plone in a "Lightning Talk". Many of the conference materials are available online as presentations currently (and soon as videos). See http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006/presentations to download presentations.

Prepare to Be Inspired

Eben Moglen was a star of this year's conference, with his powerful and inspiring speech that takes you from the industrial age to the role of software and community in today's society and economy. The speech is more than a geek address, it is a moving comment on the state of society. Eben's keynote address "Software and Community in the Early 21st Century" is now available on YouTube for viewing and is downloadable at Archive.org. Speech is about an hour long, so grab some popcorn and some friends and enjoy!

ifPeople's FairSource Plone Training: Sold Out!

ifPeople's third Plone/Zope training is taking place in Argentina Dec 15-16, 2006. Part of ifPeople's FairSource initiative to promote responsible entrepreneurship in Latin America by helping microenterprises leverage Free/Open Source Software, this training will reach about two dozen people and was sold out! "Providing trainings gives us a great opportunity to reach new talented people and help them use Plone effectively," says ifPeople cofounder Chris Johnson. "We also are able to provide an incentive for entrepreneurs interested in Plone, since we can generate a steady revenue stream for qualified enterprises," he adds. The training is organized with the help of ifPeople's FairSource partner Menttes and a local company Rcom. For more on the training (in Spanish), please see FairSource Courses.  Information from the courses will be posted on the web site (see information from previous courses, in Spanish).