This Friday: World Plone Day Toronto - Nov. 7, 2008

[Jordan Baker]

On November 7th, 2008 Toronto Plone Users will host World Plone Day  
Toronto at the Center for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Ave. 4th  
floor from 1pm - 5pm.

The Plone CMS shares the same license as Linux (GPL) and is used by  
many projects important to the Linux community including the upcoming  
gnome.org, parts of the Novell site and the FSF.  It is written in  
Python.

For more information and to register for this free event visit the  
World Plone Day Toronto / Toronto Plone Users site:

http://torontoplone.ca

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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.


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Jordan Baker, President
Scryent
open source technology solutions
Plone, Zope, Python, Linux & more

+1 416 871-3810
www.scryent.com

World Plone Day Toronto - November 7, 2008: http://torontoplone.ca
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