Ploneconf2008 News & Articles

Cris Ewing is reprising his presentation from the Plone Symposium in New Orleans that was held earlier this year. Cris has been working with Plone for several years, but was working in a silo of nothingness. Before he knew it, the Plone Conference was being held in Seattle, where he was working, and he was meeting the people that built this thing.

Alexander Limi led the “Future of Plone’s User Experience” session this morning at Plone Conference 2008 in Washington, D.C.

Limi talked about the future of Plone’s User Interface. We won’t see anything new that he’s working on, but we are talking about new ideas.

As Plone Conference 2008 continues today, we bring you more live blogging coverage. In the spotlight now is Mike Robinson. He talked about challenges faced by software development teams and how to solve them.

Presented by Nate Aune, Jon Stahl, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Geir Baekholt, Matt Hamilton and Brian Gershon as part of Plone Conference 2008, this panel discussion focused on the Plone consulting world.

We have a lot of consultants in the Plone community. As the popularity of Plone rises, so does the demand for competent Plone consultants. It’s fairly common for those who hone their skills to eventually break out on their own.

Plone Conference 2008’s presentation is streaming live: http://broadcasturban.net/webcast/plone2008/

Bradley Kuhn is speaking a bit about the history of open software licensing, and how our world is changing as technology changes. This is a great talk for anyone interested in GPL type licensing. Watch the rest of it streaming, or keep an eye on Plone.org for the full video.

Joel Burton has been doing Plone boot camps and presenting on the topic of Intranets for several years now, and it never fails to be a popular and useful talk. In this session, Joel touched on a lot of really great tips for those using Plone for their Intranets.

As part of Plone Conference 2008, Sally Kleinfeldt from Jazkarta, a Boston-based Plone provider, gave a presentation on how Jazkarta runs their Plone based business. Sally covered all the tools that Jazkarta uses, not just Plone.

Open source CMS provider Plone kicked off Plone Conference 2008 today in Washington, D.C., with founders Alexander Limi and Alan Runyan presenting their annual State of Plone address.

It’s been a rough start for Plone Conference 2008. We swamped the network this morning, and it’s been down ever since. I believe things are finally fixed, so I can officially start as your live blogger for Plone Conference 2008.