World Plone Day 2008, Wellington, New Zealand

A great success! Thanks to everyone who presented, attended and helped to organise. We'll be in touch with follow-up information.

Programme

Programme subject to change without notice. All times are approximate

Welcome and Light Lunch

12:00-12:20

10 Things You Probably Don't Know about Plone - Tim Knapp, Emerge Technology/3months

12:20-12:40

10 killer reasons why Plone is the leading Enterprise Content Management System and why you should consider it for use in your organisation.

Switching CMSs: Bulk Content Migration into Plone - Gavin Hamilton, The Treasury

12:40-12:50

How The Treasury (fairly ;-) effortlessly migrated their, extensive, legacy content into Plone using clever but simple scripts.

Why Plone? - Andy Neale, National Library

12:50-1:00

A short presentation describing the analysis National Library undertook before choosing Plone as the CMS for it's public website.

Plone in the Auditor-General's office - Rachael Fogarty, Office of the Auditor General

1:00-1:10

A brief presentation describing how Plone is used for the OAG websites and intranet.

All Singing, All Dancing: Next Generation Plone Newsletters - Dan Jacka, Signify

1:10-1:20

A case study on Singing & Dancing, a Plone newsletter Product, illustrating the power and flexibility of Plone 3+.

Plone Poise - William Hamilton, BTD - Business Solutions/PSIS

1:20-1:30

How PSIS used Poi (Plone issue tracker product) to develop an open communication and prioritisation system for the staff.

Plone in business - Ken Papps, Igniter

1:30-1:40

A round-up of the virtues on Plone for business including the, apparently challenging, concept of free software representing real value!

Impromptu Panel Discussion

1:40-1:50

All the presenters (still present) graciously participated in a brief, impromptu, panel discussion covering: Plone's (excellent) scalability, how to explainin open source to business and more.

Giveaways, business networking and refreshments.

1:50-2:30

Attendees

• Ministry of Women's Affairs
• Electricity Commission
• The Treasury
• National Library of New Zealand
• 3months
• Emerge Technology
• Office of the Auditor General
• Signify
• McCabe and Company
• Land Information New Zealand
• Ennovative Creationz
• E-Simple
• BTD - Business Solutions/PSIS
• Allied Farmers Limited
• Ministry of Consumer Affairs
• EKKO Guardian

Location

Wellington World Plone Day
Friday, November 7th, 12:00 P.M. to 2:00 P.M.

3months
Level 1, Saatchi & Saatchi House, 101-103 Courtenay Place
Wellington, New Zealand
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=3months%2C%20wellington

Registration

Sponsors

Giveaways

Technical books

Congratulations to the three recipients of the technical book, business card draw, thanks to O'Reilly and Apress.

Tee-shirts

Almost all attendees (approx. 35) received a (free) spiffy Wolrd Plone Day 2008 tee-shirt, thanks to 3months, The Virtual, Innovationz, NZ Companies Office and FMIT.