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Plone

Plone. Web Content Management for UW Oshkosh Kim Nguyen, nguyen@uwosh.edu Administrative Computing. What Plone does. Lets non-technical users efficiently create, edit, and publish web pages, documents, news, calendar events, photos, audio, video, and more

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Plone

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  1. Plone • Web Content Management for UW Oshkosh • Kim Nguyen, nguyen@uwosh.edu • Administrative Computing

  2. What Plone does • Lets non-technical users efficiently create, edit, and publish web pages, documents, news, calendar events, photos, audio, video, and more • Modules for almost everything else (surveys, polls, blogs, forums, resource scheduling/booking, event registration / signup sheets, online forms - the “paperless” campus) • It’s a web application framework, incl. web services • It’s “free”*

  3. Eliminate the middle man • Plone is a disintermediator: allows the person with the knowledge to put it on the web quickly • Immediate content updates** - no waiting for someone to make the change for you • Improves timeliness & reduces content staleness

  4. Sharing & Intranets • Collaboration & sharing features - user & group permissions, eg. intranet - private vs. public content • Can share any documents, pages, and structured data • Built in support for RSS feed generation: content repurposing

  5. Workflow • **Workflow ensures that the right people approve content updates • Simple approval workflows ---> complex multi-stage, multi-role workflows • Automatic inbox/outbox management & email notification

  6. Under the covers • Plone is written in Python (pros & cons) and is an add-on to Zope • Runs on all major OS’s • Dynamic page generation • Fine-grained security model: users, groups, permissions, roles • Web services (XML-RPC) built in • Is Python too slow? Cacheing via Apache, Squid

  7. Current use on campus • See uwosh.edu/ploneprojects for full list • Department web sites, surveys, simple web apps • International Education’s online applications for study abroad (complex workflow) • OSA elections (2006 & 2007) • ResLife MIO’s housing.uwosh.edu, recreation.uwosh.edu

  8. uwosh.edu/ploneprojects

  9. Project class diagram

  10. OIE class diagram

  11. recreation.uwosh.edu

  12. housing.uwosh.edu

  13. Future campus uses • Read LDAP, PeopleSoft, campus directory data • Online forms & routing - "paperless" campus (OIE, Project Success) • Department/college/unit public sites, intranets • Better seamless sharing of web content across campus

  14. Plone on campus • Timeline: • Feb 2004: WIDA project • Jan 2006: OSA election system • Oct 2006: Plone bootcamp training • July 2007: IT presentation to Vice Chancellor and AVCs – Plone is official • Integrated Marketing, standardization

  15. How to roll out Plone • Penn State (“WebLion”) model: Plone deployed to 40 departments and colleges • core team of programmers and trainers; commitment of funds or staff from user colleges & departments • * UW Oshkosh: staff needed for • project management (requirements analysis) • site design & skinning • programming (full time & intern)

  16. Final points • Intrapreneurship works! (so far) • Organic deployment – not monolithic • Use the carrot, not the stick

  17. Plone • Web Content Management for UW Oshkosh • Kim Nguyen, nguyen@uwosh.edu • Administrative Computing

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