During the convention developers, strategists, technology experts and entrepeneurs involved with Free Software will meet to exchange ideas, share techniques, discuss and explore free technologies such as Python, Plone, Perl, MySQL, JAVA, PHP, Linux, Apache, Mozilla and many more.

Thanks to the support of Plone Foundation, members of Plone Community will take part of:

• Tutorial: Introduction to Plone
  

  October 8th, 17hs, Laboratorio
  Authors: Roberto Allende (Plone Foundation, Menttes)

• Talk: Flexible and scalable Intranets with Plone
  

  October 9th, 14hs, Sala 1
  Authors: Roberto Allende (Plone Foundation, Menttes)

• Gathering: Plone Cono Sur Community Meeting
  

  Community Stand during the convention.

The Netsight team will be demonstrating the capabilities of Plone, showcasing case studies from an array of recent projects and answering any questions with regards to why choosing an Open Source solution for web based projects could be right for you.

IMS provides a forum for IT, business and information management professionals to find unlimited relevant advice, educational content and to compare solutions all under one roof.

IMS offers the perfect platform for those interested in content management, search solutions and web 2.0 technologies.  Co-located with Online Information the shows consist of an exhibition, conference, show floor seminar programme attracting over 9,000 visitors from 70 countries worldwide.

Matt Hamilton, Technical Director of Netsight will also be speaking at the event, presenting a case study on "The Flexibility of Open Source: A Case Study of a large Corporate Intranet".

Plone Developers and trainers, members of Plone Cono Sur will take part in the talks:

• Creating a Plone Site in 30 minutes (live version)
  

  September 4th, 12hs, Guido van Rossum Auditorium
  Authors: Emanuel Sartor, Franco Pellegrini y Juan Díaz (Menttes)

• A winning combination: Plone as a CMS, your favorite Python web framework as a frontendfrontend
  

  September 5th, 10hs,  MSA Auditorium
  Author: Roberto Allende (Menttes, Plone Foundation), based on a job of Carlos de la Guardia

• Panel: Translating applications, libraries and documentation
  

  Setiember 5th, 11hs, Raymond Hettinger Auditorium
  Authors: Alejandro J. Cura (PyAr), Manuel Muradás (PyAr),  Hugo Ruscitti (Losers Juegos, PyAr), Manuel Kaufmann (PyAr), Leonardo De Luca (PyAr), Roberto Allende (Menttes, Plone Foundation), Ramiro Morales (PyAr)

• Developing Python applications using buildout and virtualenv
  

  September 5th, 15hs,  Auditorio Raymond Hettinger
  Orador: Juan Díaz (PyAr, Menttes)

The fifth edition of the PythonBrasil event will happen between 10th and 12th September 2009, in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, at UCS.

The call for papers is open and it's the main way that the community can help the PythonBrasil Organization Team to make an event even better than the previous edition. Until 26th July 2009 you can submit your talk and training proposals (portuguese only, for now).

Last year we had the presence of Alexander Limi (you know him, right?) and Bruce Eckel (from the Thinking in Java/C++ books) who said: "Brazilians are very warm and friendly, and PythonBrasil in Rio de Janeiro had over 300 very enthusiastic and committed Python programmers.". In 2009 we'll have the presence of:

• Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Django co-founder, one of the most successful web frameworks;
• Colin Winter, software engineer at Google, and the Unladen Swallow Python optimizing project leader;
• Gustavo Niemeyer, from Canonical, known Python developer, author of the Smart package manager and the Storm object-relational mapper.

PythonBrasil is one of the best technical events in Brazil. Send us your proposal now and come to visit Brazil! :-)

The Netsight team will be demonstrating the capabilities of Plone, showcasing case studies from an array of recent projects and answering any questions with regards to why choosing an Open Source solution for web based projects could be right for you.

Thursday 30th April at 12.00pm Matt Hamilton, Technical Director of Netsight will be taking part in a Panel Debate - 'Open Source vs Traditional Software'. In this debate areas such as the key considerations for choosing between Open Source and traditional software will be addressed, as well as, what are the key strengths and weaknesses of each approach? Come and find out what the proprietary companies really have against their Open source rivals.

Internet World brings everything you need to formulate and implement your online strategy, from Content Management to hosting. Whether your job is technical or marketing focused, Internet World can help you unravel the complexities of doing business online and help you understand what your business needs, whilst also presenting the latest exciting developments that could help drive your business forward.

• Case studies and ContentMirrors
• Viewlets and vitae (curriculum, those are)
• Hosting in a box and hydrophones off your docks

There’ll be Plonistas a-plenty, from such diverse shops as Six Feet Up, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Jazkarta, and the University of Washington. WebLion might come, too, but we’ll try to keep them from screwing things up too badly.

So, by all means, wait until after April 20 to register, and skip the cheap $250 earlybird price. The economy needs stimulation, and I need a new 30-inch Cinema Display!

Warmest wishes for an LED-backlit tomorrow,
Erik Rose
Chief Avarice Officer
WebLion

• Tutorial days: Wednesday March 25 & Thursday March 26, 2009. (Two days of tutorials instead of one!)
• Conference days: Friday March 27 through Sunday March 29, 2009.
• Development sprints: Monday March 30 through Thursday April 2, 2009.

Plone: In Development and Production

Plone - the platform that extends the award-winning Zope application server is having it's first conference. Plone is used as the basis for building Intranets, Content Management Systems, Inventory Management systems and corporate websites. Now users, developers and consultants will have a opportunity to attend a three day conference specifically focusing on the Plone platform. If you use or plan on using Plone or Zope - you do not want to miss this event!

The first Plone conference will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States from October 15-17, 2003. The conference space is located in Tulane University and will be supported by Tulane Univerisity Conference Services. There will be connectivity (wireless and corded), snacks, and lunches on campus (can accomodate both meat and leaf eaters alike). Of course, after the conference days we have all of New Orleans to choose from to drink, eat, and listen to fantastic music.

The conference has two tracks of concerns or "themes" which are not specifically solely related to Plone. The themes are "Development" and "Production" and all tutorials and presentations will centered around the themes. This conference is to bootstrap the earliest of participants into the world of Plone and Zope.

We are still accepting proposals for presentations and tutorials. The goal of the conference is simple: have fun, exchange ideas, and lots of interaction between participants and presenters. The Plone community have always been filled with gregarious members and conferences are a good way for people to put faces to names; sketch out problems on boards; demo software and ideas that are currently in development.

There will be a keynote speaker (TBA) as well as a State of the Plone address by both Alexander Limi and Alan Runyan. Other talkers include: Chris McDonough from Zope Corp., Andy McKay and Laura Trippi. Most of the core Plone developers, will be in attendance. The goal is to give participants a good view on how Plone and supporting technologies are being used in the "Real World", whilst having a bit of fun.

Registration is now online (using Paypal). Accomodations are left to the participants (there are suggestions on the conference page). We will support the conference infrastructure and recommend places to socalize at after the conference. Come out to the conference and engross yourself into Plone for three days.

Don't miss the early bird discounts on registration and tutorials!

Register Now!

http://plone.org/events/conferences/1

The Plone Team

There will be a Plone booth at the fair, staffed by a number of familiar faces from the Plone community.

NTEN will conduct a special drawing at the Science Fair. You could win one of several great prizes, like an iPod or Seagate 5 gig portable drive, but you have to be present to win!

The event promises to be fun.  Don't miss it!

Introduction to Plone

Plone is a CMS, it may be used to build web portals, news sites, extranets, e-commerce among others. This talk will introduce Plone 3 main features and tools showing how to use them for custom needs. It will also show case studies of Plone in education, universities, science and government.

Author: Franco Pellegrini

• Member of  Plone Conosur
  
• Project leader at menttes. A company member of Zea Partners.

Read about this event in English - Leer acerca de este evento en Español

El evento se realizará en la Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Regional Córdoba e incluirá charlas tales como:

• Introducción a Python, por Fabian Gallina
• Rich Internet Applications, por Mariano Guerra
• Entornos independientes con Virtualenv, por Manuel Kaufmann
• Pycasa inside: PyGTK on Glade, por Natalia Bidart
  
• Usando Google API con Python, por Matias Bordese
• Presentando Plone 4, por Roberto Allende
• Introducción a PyQT, por Diego Sarmentero