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Six Feet Up, a 10+ year old open source web consulting company located near Indianapolis, IN, will be holding a FREE information event about the enterprise open source Content Management System (CMS) Plone. The event will take place on April 28th, 2010, from 1-3pm at the Indiana Historical Society, downtown Indianapolis, IN.

A proud sponsor of World Plone Day 2010, Six Feet Up will present and demo the open source CMS, and explain how companies can leverage its web content management, social software, collaboration and enterprise portal features. The Hoosier company has helped hundreds of organizations, from small businesses to large international corporations, install and configure Plone either as a public-facing site or an intranet. "The open source movement is growing fast in Europe and on both coasts of the US," explains Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker, CEO of Six Feet Up. "We want to make sure Indiana is kept up-to-date on these new technologies and can successfully compete in a global economy."

Thousands of organizations including large and small businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, nonprofits, science organizations, media outlets and publishers are using Plone to power their websites. Organizations as diverse as NASA, Oxfam, Amnesty International, Nokia, eBay, Disney, Novell, the FBI, the State Universities of Pennsylvania and Utah, as well as many governments round the world such as the UK, Belgian, Brazilian, Australian and New Zealand governments have chosen Plone to power both public-facing and internal websites.

The World Plone Day event is a global initiative by user groups, developers and the Plone Foundation. In previous years, over a hundred local events were planned around the Globe. The Indianapolis World Plone Day event will take place on April 28th, 2010 from 1-3pm in the Learning Lab at the Indiana Historical Society, 450 West Ohio St, Indianapolis, IN.

Six Feet Up encourages people interested in attending the event to register by sending an email to info@sixfeetup.com and get a chance to win a $50 iTunes gift certificate (only attendees will be eligible).

ABOUT SIX FEET UP

Founded in San Francisco, California, in 1999 and headquartered in Fortville, Indiana, Six Feet Up, Inc. is a private WBE certified woman-owned company that integrates, develops and hosts web applications powered by the award-winning Plone open source content management system and the open-source knowledge management platform KARL.

With hundreds of clients including many top universities and Fortune 500 companies, Six Feet Up is a leading provider of Plone-based solutions and services in North America. More information about Six Feet Up can be found online at http://sixfeetup.com.