CommunesPlone organizes the first Plone e-Gov international workshop
A growing number of local governments are choosing the open source Plone CMS for their web infrastructure. Doing so they provide new services to their citizens and improve internal administrative processes. Mutualization of resources opens the way to a new form of collaboration. The workshop goal is to bring together experts from several regions. The expected benefits of this transnational collaboration are to share applications, investments costs and best practices.
What ?
The Plone e-Gov workshop will be an opportunity for experts from
diverse background (public, private and open source community) to share
information about their expertise, needs and projects.
Participants will
start presenting their experience in e-Gov projects, with a focus on
reusability of open source modules. The workshop will be followed by an
analysis of similar requirements to evaluate possibilities of sharing
existing code or to develop more generic tools.
There is a particular interest for a closer collaboration between CommunesPlone and PloneGov. The goals is to avoid duplication of efforts and share applications like the « Town meeting management » module developed by CommunesPlone and the « Records Management » developed by PloneGov.
A number of funding programs support ICT research, development and transnational collaboration. The workshop will be an opportunity to present these opportunities and prepare a strategy to secure future funding to develop these mutualization e-Gov projects.
List of Plone e-Gov projects and products
When ?
Thu May 31 and Fri June 1, 2007Where ?
Workshop location
The workshop will be held 30 km in south of Brussels, in the city of Seneffe, Wallon Region, Belgium (Place de Penne d'Agenais, 10 at Seneffe)
Accomodation
They are some hotels around Seneffe but we recommend the "Hotel Aquarelle" ( Rue Scrawelle, 64 at Seneffe)
Transports
By train : From one of the railway stations, ask for a ticket to
"Nivelles" and take the
Brussels Charleroi-Sud line.
Get
off at Nivelles (24 min.) and continue to Seneffe-Centre by bus (20 min.) or take a taxi. Tickets for the bus are available to the bus driver.
Timetables are available on the web site of the SNCB or by phone (+32/2/555.25.25).
By car : MapWorkshop coordinators
- Technical coordination : Joël Lambillote, town of Sambreville
- International networking and collaboration : Xavier Heymans, Nicolas Bossut, Zea Partners
Who ?
Public sector
- Joël Lambillotte - Town of Sambreville
- Gauthier Bastien - Town of Sambreville
- Olivier Snickers - Town of Seneffe
- Gaëtan Delannay - EasiWal - Walloon Agency of e-Administration and Simplification
- Bernard Genin - EasiWal
- Jean-Michel Abe - Town of La Bruyère
- Fabio Marcuzzi - Town of Andenne
- Stéphan Geulette - UVCW - Union of Cities and Municipalities of the Walloon Region
- Concilia Bagaragaza - Town of Seneffe
- Benoît Magos - Town of Grez-Doiceau
SME and Open Source Community
- 4teamwork, Switzerland
- Affinitic, Belgium
Alain MEURANT
Laurent LASUDRY
- atReal, France
- Bubblenet, Belgium
- Codesyntax, Basque Country, Spain
- Infrae, The Netherlands
- Kitry, Luxembourg
- Lionel Dricot, Python expert - member of the Linux group Louvain-le-Neuve, Belgium.
- Menttes, Cordoba, Argentina
- Netsight, UK - (excused)
- Pilot Systems, France
- Proteon, The Netherlands
- Pyxel, Belgium
- Toonux, France
- Zea Partners, Belgium
Nicolas BOSSUT
Xavier HEYMANS
Due to logistic limitations, the participation to this first edition is limited to people already involved in CommunesPlone or PloneGov. Participants come from different background: local governments, SME and open source experts. All of them having a long-term experience in open source e-Government projects and Plone/Zope development. If you are involved in a similar project and would like to attend, you may contact nicolas_at_zeapartners.org to check for availability.
Event organization and sponsoring
- Towns of Seneffe and Sambreville, founding members of CommunesPlone
- Zea Partners
- EasiWal - The Walloon Agency for e-Administration and Simplification
With the kind support of:
- Philippe Busquin, mayor of Seneffe, former EU Commissioner for Research and member of the European Parliament (member of the Committee of Industry, Research and Energy).
- Hanna Muralt Müller, working for the Swiss Chancellery and having responsibilities in Sciences, e-Learning and e-Gov. Profile (Dutch)
Observers