Jazkarta to host Plone bootcamp in Boston
Jazkarta is pleased to announce the Plone Bootcamp to be held on August 27th and 28th at Tech Superpowers on Newbury Street in Boston. Roll up your sleeves and get ready to learn all you ever wanted to know about Plone!
When
Aug. 27-28, 2005
12:00 - 7:00 PM
What you will learn
- Day 1 - basic introduction to Plone, and is suitable for both non-technical and technical people.
- Day 2 - focus on more advanced Plone topics, and is geared towards developers or those who have a more technical bent.
What can you expect to learn from Day 1: you will get a comprehensive overview of Plone's features and how your organization can use Plone to take your website to the next level. We will look at some of the 3rd party products for Plone such as discussion forums, RSS feeds, Rich text editor, chat, e-commerce, newsletters, full-text searching, member management, online donations, and more! You will get hands-on experience using Plone and discover how easy it is for your staff to add and manage content on a Plone-based website.
Participants in Day 2 will set up a Plone site from scratch, learn how to administer the Plone site and configure it for your needs, customize the skin to change the look-n-feel of the site using CSS, install 3rd party products and develop new products which extend Plone's functionality. At the end of the session, you will have a fully functioning website from which to continue your development. We will discuss the issues of setting up and maintaining a Plone site, such as hosting, security, backups, and upgrading to newer versions of Plone.
There will be ample time for questions and specific issues that you would like to cover. Please join the Plone bootcamp mailing list to pose your questions in advance and stay up to date on the latest discussion.
Registration and Payment
Please use this form to register (payment will be collected later). The costs are intentially kept low to make it possible for non-profits to participate.
Space is limited, so be sure to register early to reserve a spot!
Location
Tech Superpowers conference room, 252 Newbury St. Boston, MA 02116
Between Fairfield and Gloucester streets. (see Google Map)- Directions by public transportation
- Green line to Copley station T stop.
(see MBTA Trip Planning) - Directions by car
- click here for directions
- Parking
- Street parking is limited in the Back Bay, but there are garages around Hynes Convention Center.
- The Definitive Guide to Plone by Andy McKay.
- Plone Live by Michael Pelletier and Munwar Shariff.
What to bring
You should bring a laptop with Wi-Fi. There will be some Ethernet ports available for those without built-in Wi-Fi.
It's also recommended that you purchase one or both of the following books as accompanying instructional material:
Questions
If you have any questions you are welcome to email us (training at jazkarta dot com) or call 866-864-4918. If your question is relevant to the other bootcamp participants, please post it to the Plone bootcamp mailing list.
Satisfied participants
Nate devoted a considerable amount of time to understanding our training needs and preparing a custom agenda. The class was highly interactive and informative, and I'm confident that our team is better positioned for success with Plone and the open source community in general as a result of our session.
About Plone
Plone is a powerful open source content management
system which is used by NASA, Oxfam America, Omidyar Network, Open
Source Development Labs, the Ubuntu Linux project, and many other
businesses and non-profit organizations. Read more about Plone.
