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Plone @ UW Oshkosh Kim Nguyen, Administrative Computing
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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)
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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the priesthood of Dreamweaver and Contribute no overall navigation kludged search via Google difficulty of updating; outdated content
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What is Plone? the biggest open source content management system (CMS) - http://plone.org http://plone.org Python, Zope, all major operating systems powerful framework with lots of free modules (“products”) separation of content and presentation
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What does Plone look like? out of the box our own http://uwosh.edu/ploneprojects site http://uwosh.edu/ploneprojects
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Development Tools ArgoUML, ArchGenXML Python the future is through the web (Dexterity, WorkflowEd, PloneFormGen)
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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
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What else can Plone do? intranets news & events blogging files photo galleries live search versioning keyword tagging custom workflow
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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
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Guerrilla marketing carrot vs. stick surveys network, network, network! showcase work: OIE study abroad workflow app the coup: COB intranet word of mouth
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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
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Spreading the love informal lines of communication http://uwosh.edu/ploneprojects mailing lists (plone-users, plone-developers ****) chat room Slow Jogs IT Training classes, user manual
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Business models everyone on their own fully funded campus web team Penn State’s WebLion team our hybrid
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Integrated Marketing genesis of IMC Plone is official resourcing and control campus web redesign project
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Scaling up 300+ sites, more to come server infrastructure support infrastructure software infrastructure - automation participating in and giving back to the Plone community
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A new Plone initiative business process efficiency hug a tree today, or welcome to the 20th century workflow application design tool
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Lessons learned intrapreneurship works organic growth happy customers = word of mouth choose your customers executive sponsors articulate your vision
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Opportunities on campus: internships, project appointments, and full time jobs on your own: client facing, programming, graphics design, hosting/server admin see http://plone.net for providers http://plone.net
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