Plone Asia Pacific

by Dylan Jay — last modified Nov 01, 2009 02:54 PM

Welcome to the Plone Asia Pacific user group. This is a community space for Plone developers, users and professional service companies to collaborate in the AP region.

Meetings and events

Thursday, 21 May 2009, Sydney Plone user group meetup.
Wednesday, 18 Februay 2009 - Plone Seminar, Tokyo
Wednesday, 21 January 2009 - Plone Seminar, Tokyo

Regular events within the region are held in New Zealand, Japan, and Sydney, Australia via SyPy

Development and Support in Asia Pacific

Plone.net lists development and support companies for the following countries in Asia Pacific:

Australia New Zealand China Hong Kong India Japan Korea Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam

Mailing list: Join our mailing list: http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-asiapacific

IRC Drop into the IRC chat room: freenode.net #ploneap

Projects

Text Search Improvement for East Asian Languages

Get Beta version and join for testing.

svn co https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/UnicodeSplitterPatch/trunk/UnicodeSplitterPatch

and read a couple of files, tests/README-en.txt and tests/langs/en-sample-01.txt for instruction.

Join us, if you are using languages which does not separate words by a space.

Supported Languages Survey

Please have a look and contribute with your knowledge about languages, if you know.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pgA5RsCXykF6TE4QJ5eBCJg&hl=en

Access, login, and edit please.

References sites

Below are Plone sites developed within the Asia Pacific Region.

Australia

NSW Greens Party - this is the official Greens Party website for NSW. This site includes newsletter broadcasting from members submissions and RSS feed aggregation.

NSW Government Chief Information Office - The site provides information about the NSW Government's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) strategies and programs

CSIRO ICT Centre - The Centre is one of the largest information and communication technologies research facilities in Australia.

China

India

Japan

Korea

Malaysia

New Zealand

The Treasury - The Treasury is the New Zealand Government’s lead advisor on economic and financial issues.

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

For further examples view Asia Pacific Case Studies on plone.net

Case Studies

Plone eases NGO access to ICT in South Asia rural areas

http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/oneworld006

The "humanitarian eBay", Global Hand, uses Plone to map donations to NGOs

http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/globalhand007