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by Eric Steele — last modified Apr 21, 2010 01:03 PM

See streaming presentations and join in IRC discussions about Plone 4's features and the upcoming Plone in Education website.

WebLion will feature two streamed presentations from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST) on World Plone Day, Wednesday, April 28. These presentations can be viewed at www.ustream.tv/channel/plone-users-weekly. Viewers are invited to share comments and questions during the presentations on the WebLion IRC channel .

PloneEdu

Michael Halm, Director and Senior Strategist in WebLion, will provide a preview of the upcoming Plone in Education (PloneEdu) website, to be launched at Plone Symposium East 2010. PloneEdu will be a hub of information on major initiatives supporting teaching and learning, research, administration, K-12 adoption, building communities, and marketing within education.

Halm will be part of a panel discussing PloneEdu initiatives and collaborative projects at the Symposium. Interested attendees are invited to participate in a PloneEdu content sprint.

Plone 4

Eric Steele, Programmer-Analyst in WebLion, will showcase features of Plone 4, which is due to be released in early summer of 2010. Central to Plone 4 are newer versions of Zope and Python, which will bring a substantial increase in performance and better support for large volumes of data.

Steele will discuss Plone 4 features and will preview changes planned for future Plone releases in a keynote talk at Plone Symposium East 2010.

Questions about WebLion's streaming presentations or the Symposium can be directed to support@weblion.psu.edu. See the Plone Symposium East 2010 event page for details on presentations, training sessions, sprints, lightning talks, and birds-of-a-feather sessions.

This way for more information about World Plone Day and its goal to promote and educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using Plone in education, government, ngos, and in business.