Plone at FISL, the 8th International Forum on Software libre in Brazil

Roberto Allende from Menttes, an Argentinean Zea member, will be present 2 Plone talks at FISL "8º Fórum Internacional Software Livre". This conference will be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from 12th to 14th April 2007.

Book your agenda ! Roberto Allende will give a talk on Plone 3 and a lighting talk about the CommunesPlone project at the "8º Fórum Internacional Software Livre".

Talk: Plone 3: a swiss army knife to build web portals and extranets

Plone is a CMS, it may be used to build web portals, news sites, extranets, groupware, 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 government, extranet and and commercial web sites.

Lighting Talk: CommunesPlone, a governmental free software community

13 Belgian communes and 2 French Mairies participate in the CommunesPlone project. In doing so, they aim to gain independence from IT services providers by developing, essentially by themselves and in a cooperative manner, applications and websites for their own use as well as for their citizens’. CommunesPlones strategy mainly rests on two renowned multiplatform Open Source tools: Zope and Plone. The lighting talk will introduce the project, current state and perspectives.

More information

• Complementary information about Plone in Spanish is produced by the PloneConosur usergroup.
• FISL Program
• Python Brazil