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Thursday May 31

9:00 Welcome
9:30 Introduction

9:40 e-Gov projects and mutualization: challenges and opportunities

CommunesPlone, PloneGov and Udalerria web platform and similar complementary initiatives are taking place within Europe. Based on these experiences, the presentation will outline the benefits and challenges of transnational mutualization and its positive impact for local governments, citizens and the economy.
Xavier Heymans, Zea Partners

10:00 – 12:30 e-Government projects and requirements in several regions

Participants will present their expertise in e-Gov projects. Presentations will focus on generic development, collaboration and reusability of open source modules.

Joel Lambillotte, town of Sambreville, Belgium
Roberto Allende, Menttes, Argentina
Thierry Benita, Atreal, France
David Sapiro, Pilotsystems, France
Bernhard Buelman, 4Teamwork, Switzerland
Eneko Astigarraga, Codesyntax, Spain

12:30 - 13:30 lunch
13:30 – 18:00 workgroups

• PloneGov infrastructure (setting up a central Plone e-Gov portal. It will present the different Plone e-Gov initiatives, available products and projects)  – coordinator Roberto Allende

• Website (skin development) – coordinator Olivier Snickers

• Communication and marketing (improving the promotion of the project) – coordination Nicolas Bossut

• Objectis hosting (investigating requirements to provide free hosting to test CommunesPlone applications) – coordinator David Sapiro, PilotSystems.
• Informal presentations between participants
  
• 18:00 - buffet and social event.
  

Friday, June 1 – workgroups

• atReal Plone components : Arfile preview, Hud display, Ar deadline, Massloader, Mailservices. By Thierry Benita, atReal.
• 4Teamwork - presenting additional components.
  
• PloneGov Electronic document management (GED) - Investigating the possibility to integrate PloneGov.ch development into CommunesPlone - Bernhard, Joël, Gauthier.
• Informal presentations between participants

PloneGov - Switzerland

The PloneGov.ch foundation has been founded in April 2007. Members of the PloneGov.ch foundation are the Swiss Government, the Canton of Basel Stadt and two consulting companies. The goal of the foundation is to provide an eGovernment infrastructure based on Plone.

Today, modules for Web CMS, Intranet/Extranet, Records Management, and public forums are available. On May 30th, the first PloneGov.ch workshop will be held in Berne.

• Contact person : Bernhard BÜHLMANN
• PloneGov applications list (German)

Udalerria web plataforma - Basque Country, Spain

Udalerria web plataforma is an initiative started in the Basque Country. It aims at providing a suite of applications to local governments.

Some ZOPE Communal Site powered by CodeSyntax, Basque-Spanish, include one Basque-French site: Saint Pierre d'Irube (near Bayonne).

• Contact person : Eneko ASTIGARRAGA
• Codesyntax website

Udalerria web plataforma applications

Listed below are developments and projects made by Codesyntax, Spain. In addition they are working in a new website-model that will offer all services to a local government.

Job vacancies

• We've developed a new object in order to give to the local administrations the chance to fill out a form. In this form you can fill out different kind of fields like text, textarea, files, datetimes, ...
  We have also the chance to add a CSV file (comma-separated values). Once a citizen accede the job vacancies will be able to write down his identification number a he will be able to see his situation in that job vacancies. Site administrator will be able to download the CSV file if he wants to change and upload it again.
• Responsible: Lur Ibargutxi, Codesyntax

Public contract

• This simple object is a form where the town administrator can fill out it and show it for the citizens. The administrator can upload files that contain requirements for that public contract.
• Responsible: Lur Ibargutxi, Codesyntax

Complaint form - project

• We are developing a product that gives to the town citizens the chance to complain about whatever they want filling out a form. Once they send the form, the local administration will receive in the format he set previously (XML, PDF,...). The form is dynamic, I mean, the site administrator will be able to change, add or remove the fields of the form depending on what kind of form he wants.
• Responsible: Mikel Larreategi, Codesyntax

Digital signature (digital certificated) - project

• We are investigating the way to sign digitally (with a specific card) in order to confirm that we are really who we are saying we are.
• Responsible: Mikel Larreategi, Codesyntax

CommunesPlone - Belgium, France

16 Belgian communes (French and Dutch speaking) 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.

Today, different modules are available : Intranet/Extranet, council management, online administrative documents requests, identification by electronic identity card, fine management or deliberation management.

• Contact person : Joël LAMBILLOTTE, Olivier SNICKERS, Xavier HEYMANS
• CommunesPlone applications list (French)
  

CommunesPlone applications

Town meeting management - (Gestion du collège communal)

• Objective: This product is intended for local authorities to manage their official meetings.  It will give the possibility for the employee to propose items that will be discussed during the meeting.  A secretary will choose the items that will be discussed for a given meeting and generate an PDF agenda for it.  After that decisions have been taken for every items of the agenda, the secretary will have the possibility to generate an official PDF report.
• Contact person : Joël LAMBILLOTTE, Commune de Sambreville
  

Cobranding (RSS feed) - (Comarquage)

• Objective : This will add a way to tag your documents with data produced by some servers (server of the Walloon Region for example in Belgium). The main interest of tagging a document is the fact that tagged data will be updated externally by other users than contributors of your website.  Your website will so be updated auto-magically.
• Contact person :Gauthier BASTIEN, Commune de Sambreville

Application container - (Conteneur d'applications)

• Objective : The original idea is to : simplify the Plone interface as more as possible by removing any unnecessary objects et to add security everywhere so that a user can not see things that he should not. By using profiles, there will be ways to adapt the Plone Site to what the site administrator want add more secure workflows, add some specific roles, adapt some permissions, ...

• Contact person : Stéphane GUEULETTE, UVCW

Extended subscription forms - (Extension signalétique)

• Objective : This product will add some interesting fields to identify a user more precisely : his address and his Belgian national register number. It allows any applications to use these data, and for us, it gives the product BelgianEidAuthPlugin a way to identify the user using his Belgian national register number.

• Contact person : Stéphane GUEULETTE, UVCW

BelgianEid AuthPlugin - (Identification par carte d'identité électronique)

• Objective : This product will add a authentication plugin in PAS (the authentication system of Plone 2.5+) that will give the user the possibility to use his belgian eID card to log into a Plone Site.The user has to subscribe before and gives some more personal informations (you can use the CPDescriptive product for that or make it another way), particularly his belgian national register number that will be used during authentication to make the link between the Plone user and the eID card.
• Contact person : Stéphane GUEULETTE, UVCW
  

Fine management system - (Gestion des amendes administratives)

• Objective : Fine management system
  
• Contact person : Jean DUMONT, Town of Fléron
  

Python Open Document

• Objective : pod is a library that allows to easily generate documents whose content is dynamic.
  
• Contact person : Gaetan DELANNAY, EasiWal

Online services - (Téléservices)

• Objective : This product is "citizen oriented".  This will give a local authority a way to make some documents orderable through the web by their citizens.  It will also give a way for the citizen to send a request to a service and be able to follow the evolution of it (workflow).
• Contact person : Joël LAMBILLOTTE, Commune de Sambreville
  

Websites

• Objective : Produce a generic product that includes all applications needed for a town website.
  
• Contact person : Olivier SNICKERS, Commune de Seneffe

PloneDeliberation

• Objectif : Outil de dématérialisation de la gestion et du stockage des délibérations (ordres du jour, des comptes-rendu, des feuilles de présence et des annexes, validation des délibérations et des séances par étapes de workflow, etc.)
  
• Personne de contact : Thierry BENITA, atReal

Other products

GEIDE

• Objectif : Solution modulaire pour la gestion de vos documents, GEIDE simplifie le classement, l'indexation, la recherche et les cycles de validation des documents : indexation en plein texte des documents (MS Word, Excel et Powerpoint, openoffice.org writer, calc et presenter, PDF, RTF, XML, HTML), pré-visualisation en ligne des documents (une vue du document, y compris images, dans la page de l'intranet), stockage des documents en format d'origine plus XHTML pour plus de pérennité, gestion des workflows, etc.
• Personne de contact : Thierry BENITA, atReal

atReal Plone components

• Arfile preview - Add full text indexing and inline preview to file
  Hud display - Ajax dashboard for Plone based on pluggins
  Ar deadline - Add calendar information on other content on you Plone site
  Massloader - Load several folders and contents from a zip file.
  Mailservices - Manages mailing to users and group of the intranet.
• Personne de contact : Thierry BENITA, atReal

PuRe (Public Requirements) – under development

PuRe is a Plone product that allows creating and managing public procurements. At present, it supports Belgian “services” procurements, and is specifically targeted to procurements related to the development or acquisition of software products, although it can also be used for other kinds of procurements. The tool allows generating an OpenOffice, Microsoft Word or PDF version of the public requirement, thanks to the use of the POD (Python Open Document) library (see http://appyframework.org/pod.html).

At present, the tool is available in French (the code is written in English).

PuRe considers a public procurement as a set of requirements. Those requirements are grouped by deliverables. So when an administration publishes a public procurement, in fact she describes the set of results she expects in the form of deliverables, and for each of them she expresses a set of requirements. The tender is considered as the first deliverable. A deliverable may be a document, source code, tests, or less tangible things like training or days of consultancy.

• Contact person : Gaetan DELANNAY, EasiWal