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Today is World Plone Day - Join the Celebration


The first World Plone Day event is now finished. New Zealand WPD organizer Tim Knapp was pleased with the results:
Just so you all know, we just had our first WPD Plone Day event (in the world) in Wellington, New Zealand and about 31 people turned out, we had 6 presenters and a grand old time.
What [...]

Plone Conference 2008: My Session Picks


Ok, time to start figuring out what sessions I want to go to at the Plone conference. I work mainly as a project manager / scrum master, so I tend to avoid the techy stuff. Here is my preliminary list:
Wednesday

The 10% manifesto and further — Methods for organized contribution to strategic development of Plone. I [...]

High Performing Teams: What’s the Secret Sauce?


Agile definition and value illustrated. View full size poster

I’m really looking forward to Plone Conf 2008 for many reasons, one of which is presenting on a topic I am passionate about, namely Agile development, in particular Scrum, an Agile software development framework.
What is Agile?
For people unfamiliar with Agile, Scott Ambler defines it concisely this way:
Agile [...]

Plone Conf 2008: The unofficial social calendar


Part of what makes conferences like Plone Conf 2008 so great is the chance to meet and hang out with many of the people we only “see” online from a distance. This is especially true for me. I’ve been involved with Plone since 2002 but have yet to attend any conference / sprint. Thankfully, that [...]