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. Modules, modules, modules Surveys, polls Discussion forums Resource scheduling & booking Event registration / signup sheets Online forms - the “paperless” campus

8. Modules 2 Blogs Wikis (collaboratively-edited pages) Multimedia (photos, audio, video) publication & sharing Bibliographies, publication lists Newsletters, e-campaigns

9. 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

10. uwosh.edu/ploneprojects

12. Project class diagram

16. OIE class diagram

18. Current use 2 STAR online (degree audit) batches IMSSS (International Medieval Sermon Studies Society) WIDA (2004 through May 2007): 15 member states; 15,000 educators in Illinois alone Elsewhere: oxfam.org

21. recreation.uwosh.edu

22. housing.uwosh.edu

24. 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

25. Future 2 Advance Titan - news University Relations - news & events calendar Better marketing through timely, accessible information

26. 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

27. 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)

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

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