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Plone
Web Content Management for UW Oshkosh
Kim Nguyen, [email protected]
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
• 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”*
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
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
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
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
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
uwosh.edu/ploneprojects
Project class diagram
OIE class diagram
recreation.uwosh.edu
housing.uwosh.edu
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
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
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)
Final points
• Intrapreneurship works! (so far)
• Organic deployment – not monolithic
• Use the carrot, not the stick
Plone
Web Content Management for UW Oshkosh
Kim Nguyen, [email protected]
Administrative Computing