UW Oshkosh Kim Nguyen, Administrative Computing
Bio University of Waterloo BASc, MASc Logo, flight simulators, mineral processing, document imaging/workflow, financial risk management, consulting, database replication senior systems analyst (PeopleSoft, Oracle --> Plone)
UW Oshkosh web sites, circa 2004 inconsistent look aesthetically uneven the priesthood of Dreamweaver and Contribute no overall navigation kludged search via Google difficulty of updating; outdated content
What is Plone? the biggest open source content management system (CMS) Python, Zope, all major operating systems powerful framework with lots of free modules (“products”) separation of content and presentation
What does Plone look like? out of the box our own site
Development Tools ArgoUML, ArchGenXML Python the future is through the web (Dexterity, WorkflowEd, PloneFormGen)
Why Plone? all content creating, editing, organizing is THROUGH THE WEB dynamic housekeeping means less work for content creators: navigation, search catalog, permissions handling, RSS approval process (workflow) power to the people open source - pragmatism & mission
What else can Plone do? intranets news & events blogging files photo galleries live search versioning keyword tagging custom workflow
How did we choose Plone? WIDA project, early 2004 review of alternatives, final recommendation, approval rollout, and the test of time Plone improvements & adoption web services
Guerrilla marketing carrot vs. stick surveys network, network, network! showcase work: OIE study abroad workflow app the coup: COB intranet word of mouth
Amorphous Plone team Media Services (unfunded): one staff & two interns Academic Computing: system administrator Administrative Computing: one staff & one intern *** ResLife MIO: 2 plus 2 student employees Student Tech Fee: one student employee Reeve Union: four student employees College of Business: one student employee
Spreading the love informal lines of communication mailing lists (plone-users, plone-developers ****) chat room Slow Jogs IT Training classes, user manual
Business models everyone on their own fully funded campus web team Penn State’s WebLion team our hybrid
Integrated Marketing genesis of IMC Plone is official resourcing and control campus web redesign project
Scaling up 300+ sites, more to come server infrastructure support infrastructure software infrastructure - automation participating in and giving back to the Plone community
A new Plone initiative business process efficiency hug a tree today, or welcome to the 20th century workflow application design tool
Lessons learned intrapreneurship works organic growth happy customers = word of mouth choose your customers executive sponsors articulate your vision
Opportunities on campus: internships, project appointments, and full time jobs on your own: client facing, programming, graphics design, hosting/server admin see for providers