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Vancouver Open Source CMS Summit - February 7-9
Boris Mann and Roland Tanglao from Brygh, Zak Greant from EZ Publish, Ianiv Schweber from Qumana are convening an open-source CMS gathering... Andy McKay will be there representing Plone.
Just got an email from Roland Tanglao of Bryght, inviting me to attend (and publicize!) the upcoming, free Open Source CMS Summit in Vancouver, BC this February 7-9.
There are two tracks to it: CMS specific tracks (a set of sessions specific to a system, eg. the Drupal CMS-specific part will have many sessions since well over 50 Drupal developers and users will be coming and we will have tracks for Plone, Wordpress, etc) and a Cross-CMS track (open source systems can win by co-operating: sessions on templating, identity, spam, etc.).
My understanding is that Vancouver resident Andy McKay will be there to represent Plone. Figured this should be on the radar screen of the wider Plone community. The agenda appears very much under development, and the list of topics is quite intruiguing:
Confirmed Topics
- Identity
- Licensing
- General licensing issues, GPLv3 (Zak Greant)
Potential Topics
- PHP: something from Rasmus, perhaps PHP5 or APC/caching/performance
- Code repositories: overview by James Blackwell, with specific discussion of bzr
- APIs and interfaces
- MetaWeblog, Atom
- Search
- UI/Usability
- WYSIWYG Editing
- Privacy
- Template systems and theming
- Spam
- Security
- Internationalization aka i18n
- Best practices for development & deployment
- Business practices and open source
- Large scale and high availability
- Hosting Models
- Partner and Certification Programs
- Media Management
- Data interchange, microformats, and structured blogging
- AJAX
- Databases
- Frameworks and components
- Geodata, mapping, and location
- add yours!
Everyone welcome
The idea for the conference was to bring together lots of different free/open source developers that work on web content-related applications. The shared sessions are where we can talk about shared issues that we face, talk about solutions, and even do things like share code or do interoperability testing.
The second part is to offer space and a venue for individual projects to run their own conferences/sessions. So, I'm hoping that more Plone enthusiasts will come and run sessions. Leave a comment on the site or send me an email at borismann@gmail.com if you want to reserve a session slot. The schedule looks a bit empty right now, but if you look at the full session list (see http://www.oscms-summit.org/event) you can see there are lots of Drupal sessions, because the Drupal community decided to co-locate with the conference.
And of course, don't forget about The First Official Meeting of the Secret Free Software/Open Source Beer Drinking Cabal!