Plone is a powerful, flexible Content Management solution that is easy to install, use and extend.

The Plone community is organizing World Plone Day on April 28th, a world-wide event in over 20 countries and 5 continents to promote and educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using Plone in education, government, NGOs, and in business.

If you're curious about how Plone can help your organization manage a public facing website, or Intranet portal this is the time to meet with Plone experts and end-users.

The free Toronto event features seminars, presentations and lectures covering the Plone technology and real world case studies.

World Plone Day Toronto will run from 1-5pm. Refreshments will be served.

HIGHLIGHTS

• An Introduction to Plone - As an introduction geared towards business owners, developers and end users, this talk will leave you with a deeper understanding of how Plone is used by businesses, governments, non-profits and educational organizations around the world. Also learn what's new in Plone 4 - up to date information on the speed and performance, large file handling, user interface improvements and more! [Jordan Baker}
• Enterprise Collaboration Successes and Lessons Learned - An Update - Corporations and governments have a need to provide a user-friendly collaboration service to its employees. Plone provides that service in a cost-effective way that also saves time and effort.  Getting staff to use Plone isn't difficlut ... Plone's functionality sells itself, provided the service has been demonstrated properly.  [Gord Gallant]
• Extending Plone using Dexterity - Plone has long offered many ways to extend its functionality. One of the newest is called "Dexterity," an add-on that leverages the latest developments in Plone to allow people to create new content types with advanced capabilities. This talk will introduce Dexterity at an introductory level and walk you through using it to create a new content type. [Hugh Ranalli]
• Plone Panel - Ask your Plone question and have it answered by Toronto Plone experts.

VENUE

Alterna Boardroom, 4th Floor

Centre for Social Innovation
215 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, Ontario

FULL DETAILS

• More info on the World Plone Day 2010 Toronto event.
• Learn about World Plone Day.