Plone Symposium East 2011

A regional Plone symposium held in May at Pennsylvania State University, hosted by WebLion. The event includes talks, training, and sprints and is intended for decision makers, developers, integrators, website administrators, and content owners. One of the event's major themes is Plone in education.

Agenda:

• Training: May 15-17
• Symposium: May 18-19
• Sprints: May 20-21

Six Feet Up is a once again an official Gold Sponsor of this event.

Three members of the Sixies team will be presenting talks at the Symposium.

Chrissy Wainwright, Six Feet Up's Lead Theme Developer, will talk about "Plone Theming in a Nutshell" and an "Intro to TAL." She will also be presenting a training class on "Theming Plone 4" for which limited seats are still available at this time.

Senior Developer Clayton Parker will talk about content migration in a presentation "Migrating from Drupal to Plone with Transmogrifier."

Six Feet Up CTO / Plone Foundation President Calvin Parker will give a talk about pitching Plone effectively called "How to Seal the Seal."

Six Feet Up will also be running a Plone Tune-Up on Friday, May 20th during the Symposium, hoping to engage some of the Symposium attendees in this monthly effort to address issues with Plone. You can find out more about this at the Plone Tune-Ups page.