Menttes at FISL, the 8th International Forum on Software libre in Brazil

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Menttes at FISL, the 8th International Forum on Software libre in Brazil

by Roberto Allende — last modified 2007-05-23 07:10

Roberto Allende from Menttes presented 2 Plone talks at FISL "8º Fórum Internacional Software Livre". This conference was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from 12th to 14th April 2007.

Menttes was in the "8º Fórum Internacional Software Livre" giving two talks:

Talk: Plone 3: a swiss army knife to build web portals and extranets
Plone is a CMS, it may be used to build web portals, news sites, extranets, groupware, e-commerce among others. This talk will introduce Plone 3 main features and tools showing how to use them for custom needs. It will also show case studies of Plone in government, extranet and and commercial web sites.

Lighting Talk: CommunesPlone, a governmental free software community
12 Belgian communes 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. The lighting talk will introduce the project, current state and perspectives.

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