[wlug_org] Presentation for July meeting?

[Jeremy Naylor]

Damon Lynch wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Is there a presentation lined up for July?  If not, would the group be
>interested in a presentation on Plone, a user friendly and powerful
>Content Management System?   It is used to build cool websites.  Of
>course, it is free and open source :)
>
>Plone sites have features like this:
>      * option for HTML / plain text e-mail newsletters based on
>        powerful templating and flexible content criteria
>      * on the fly conversion of Word and OpenOffice documents to HTML
>        including images
>      * CMS stuff like "roles" (e.g. member, reviewer, administrator)
>        and workflow (getting content through the publishing process)
>      * great handling of content types like events and news items,
>      * powerful form validation
>      * integrated discussion forums
>      * programmatic creation of PDFs for use in e-mails and elsewhere
>      * ease of use to build new content types including code
>        construction from UML class models
>      * because it is on Zope, you can do anything python can do,
>        including integrating it with other cool platforms like twisted
>        to do things like data transformation and conversion on a unit
>        other than the web server
>
>This is a Plone-based site I am working on (hopefully to be launched
>within the next week or two):
>http://trust.humanrights.net.nz/
>
>This is the main Plone website:
>http://plone.org/
>
>BTW my last WellyLUG meeting for some years will be this July.  I am
>heading off overseas to study.
>
>Best wishes,
>Damon
>  
>
Hey Damon and all,

Do you guys think R2 should video this presentation? Looks like it could 
be a good one.

Thanks,

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