Ploneability Higher Ed

Thursday, November 08, 2007 from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (CT)

Houston, TX

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Event Details

Ploneability Higher Ed is a one-day conference for college and university Web content managers, developers and site administrators to connect and share success stories involving Plone, the open-source content management system.

Agenda

9:00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30 a.m.	Welcome Chris Williamson, Enfold Systems
9:35 a.m.	Welcome Rosalinda Mendez, Texas Learning and Computation Center
9:40 a.m.	What’s Next in Open-Source Content Management Alan Runyan, Enfold Systems
10:00 a.m.	WebLion: Bringing Open Source to Educational Institutions Christian Vinten-Johansen & Mike Halm, Penn State University
10:30 a.m.	Break
10:40 a.m.	Empowering Content Managers Campuswide Kurt Bendl, University of Louisville
11:40 a.m.	Break
11:50 a.m.	Enabling Plone with Windows Integration Products Alan Runyan, Enfold Systems
12:05 p.m.	Best Practices with Plone in Higher Education Joel Burton, Plone Bootcamps
12:50 p.m.	Lunch Break
1:20 p.m.	Skinning Multiple Sites: ZOpenPublisher Josten Ma, Texas Learning and Computation Center
1:55 p.m.	Managing Audience-Based Navigation: MetaNav Cris Ewing, University of Washington
2:20 p.m.	Break
2:30 p.m.	“Birds of a Feather” Sessions
3:00 p.m.	Content Management for Faculty: The Learning Web Jordan Carswell, Houston Community College
3:45 p.m.	Break
3:55 p.m.	Growing a Large, Collaborative Plone Site Cameron Cooper, Connexions
4:25 p.m.	Plone and OpenCourseWare: eduCommons David Ray, Utah State University
4:55 p.m.	Wrap-Up Chris Williamson, Enfold Systems
5:00 p.m.	Conference Adjourns

Adjacent event

Plone in Education Organizing Meeting: Friday, Nov. 9; Christian Vinten-Johansen and Mike Halm of Penn State will hold a meeting at Rice University to discuss collaboration on higher education Plone products. Seating is limited. To participate, please e-mail Christian at cjohansen@psu.edu.

Location, directions and parking

Ploneability Higher Ed will take place in the Elizabeth Dennis Rockwell Pavilion, on the second floor of the M.D. Anderson Library at the University of Houston.

Use the links on the right side of this page to get directions to the nearest campus entrance, Entrance 1, at Calhoun Road and University Drive.

All-day visitor parking is available in the Hilton Hotel garage for $6 and the Welcome Center parking garage for $8. From Entrance 1, take the first left. The Hilton garage entrance will be on the right, followed by the Welcome Center garage entrance on the left.

To get to the M.D. Anderson Library from either garage:

Walk back down the street to University Drive.
Cross the street and turn left.
Walk past University Center, which will be on your right.
Continue on this sidewalk as it curves to the right.
The next building on your right is M.D. Anderson Library. Continue on the sidewalk to the front of the library.
Enter through the nearest front door.
Go up the circular stairway to the second floor, where you will see the entrance to the Rockwell Pavilion.

Campus map

Airports & Airlines

William P. Hobby Airport: 8 miles southeast of UH; Airline Information
Bush Intercontinental Airport: 23 miles north of UH; Airline Information

Lodging

Hilton University of Houston: Convenient on-campus location, a short walk from the conference
Houston Downtown - Hotels: A short drive from the UH campus, with a variety of options near restaurants and nightlife, plus MetroRail access to the Museum District, Rice University and Hermann Park
Hotels Near Rice University: More options, also a short drive from the UH campus, and near the Friday meeting and Museum District

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News & Updates

Friday, November 16, 2007

Presentations, photos and evaluation results from the Ploneability Higher Ed event last week are now available at www.enfoldsystems.com/ploneability.

We hope you find some useful information, even if you didn't attend. All of the presentations are in PDF format and include short descriptions to help you find material that may interest you. Our presenters discussed a range of topics especially relevant to content management with Plone in college and university settings.

Many thanks to our presenters for their time and energy, and special thanks to our hosts, Josten Ma and his colleagues at the Texas Learning and Computation Center, who have repeatedly shown their commitment to the open-source community.

We look forward to working with you in the future!

Regards,
Chris Williamson
Enfold Systems
+1 713 942 2377 Ext 113
http://www.enfoldsystems.com/

Thursday, November 08, 2007

A problem with the Eventbrite system caused an error in the link to the UH wireless page in the news item posted here Nov. 1. The correct address is: http://www.uh.edu/infotech/php/template.php?network_id=36

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Additional details have just been added to "Location, directions and parking," on the left side of this page.

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Plone Bootcamps has canceled the course planned for tomorrow. Trainer Joel Burton is still scheduled to present a session Thursday at 12:05 p.m. on "Best Practices with Plone in Higher Education."

Monday, November 05, 2007

If any attendee has a blog and would like to provide a live blog of the event, please contact Chris Williamson so we can announce your URL for those who can't attend in person. Thanks!

Thursday, November 01, 2007

The following e-mail went out today to registered attendees:

From: Chris Williamson

Subject: Ploneability Higher Ed reminder

Dear Ploneability Higher Ed attendees:

I just sent a round of invitations to local university Web staff, and in the open-source community spirit, I'm asking for your help. If you know anyone interested in Web content management solutions, now is the time to forward this e-mail and let them know about Ploneability Higher Ed, one week from today at the University of Houston main campus:

http://ploneability.eventbrite.com

A few reminders and announcements:

Our host, the Texas Learning and Computation Center, is graciously providing a continental breakfast and boxed lunch free of charge to registered attendees. Please let me know if your plans change so Josten can order food for the proper number of people.
If you'd like to participate in the Plone in Education developers meeting on Friday, Nov. 9, please review the agenda and let Christian Vinten-Johansen know you're interested.
Wireless connectivity will be available at the conference venue. Tables will be set up "classroom style" for ease of laptop use. If you will want Internet access, you may want to review this page and install the necessary security software in advance.
If you'd like to connect with people with similar interests, please consider leading an informal, half-hour "Birds of a Feather" session during the time specified on the agenda. A sign-up sheet will be available the morning of the event.

Looking forward to seeing you Thursday!

Regards,
Chris Williamson
Enfold Systems

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