Training

Training sessions at Plone Symposium East 2011 will take place May16 and 17 in the Smeal Business Building. There are sessions 1 and 2 days long. Hours each day are 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Please register for training directly with the trainers.
You cannot register for training at the main Symposium registration site.

Penn State staff and students:
Register with purchasing cards, or contact trainers directly for payment arrangements.

Trainer(s)	Session	Day(s)	Room
Chrissy Wainwright	Theming Plone 4 This training session includes front-end design of a Plone 4.0 site from start to finish using two methods: Traditional Plone theming, and using Diazo (XDV). The training will be a hands-on, introductory walk-through of the process, using a pre-created sample design. Attendees will need their computers and will be expected to follow along on their own local instances. Read More... Register Now	Monday 16 Tuesday 17	Room 124 Smeal Business Building
Steve McMahon	Creating Custom Content Types in Plone 4 With Plone 4, the Dexterity content-type-development framework has become a practical and desirable alternative to the Archetypes framework Plone has featured in previous versions. This course will show how it's possible to use Dexterity now to build reliable and maintainable new content types for Plone 4+. Register Now	Monday 16 Tuesday 17	Room 208 Smeal Business Building
Cris Ewing	Getting Off the Ground with Plone So you've heard about Plone, this smart, secure and powerful content management system and you'd like to get started. Where to begin? This training course is for you. Over two days of hands-on, well-paced work you'll learn how to install Plone, how to create your first website and get started adding content, how to get quick, simple victories for your new project, and how to deploy your site when you're ready to go live. You'll focus on small-scale, achievable goals, and learn where to go when you're ready for bigger steps. Attendees will be expected to bring a computer with a text editor and be unafraid to try new things. Read More... Register Now	Monday 16 Tuesday 17	Room 120 Smeal Business Building
Alex Clark	Plone Site Administration The goal of this one day course is to make attendees more confident about what they do with Plone in their development environment. Subsequently, this should make them more confident with what they can do with Plone in their production environment. Which in turn, should make the attendee's boss or clients more happy about what Plone can do for them in their business environment.Read More... Register Now	Tuesday 17	Room 126 Smeal Business Building
Rose Pruyne Beth Phillips	Managing Content in Plone This workshop is for content managers and content providers with beginning or intermediate-level knowledge of Plone. Participants will learn how to make the best use of Plone's many content-management features in a low-pressure setting with experts there to help and answer your questions. Register Now	Monday 16	Room 125 Smeal Business Building

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"Plone Symposium East combines the best of both technical expertise, but also a rare close up contact with those on the front-line using and supporting the software within both commercial and academic sectors. A fantastically diverse group of attendees you will come away with your head buzzing with new ideas and solutions to any problems you come with."

Matt Hamiltion Matt Hamilton, President, Plone Foundation and Technical Director, Netsight Internet Solutions, UK

"WebLion's Plone Symposium East has become an event we wouldn't miss each year. It brings together people to collaborate, share and teach in an intimate environment. I've always found that the community was one of the greatest things about Plone and this is a outstanding opportunity to join in the fun."

Calvin Hendryx-Parker CTO Six Feet Up, Inc

"PSE is always the event I look forward to attending each year. A surprisingly wide range of educational institutions from around the world send inspired and inspiring people to share with and learn from their peers how to make the most of Plone. Whether it's during the five-minute lightning talks, the 45-minute presentations, the keynote, the birds of a feather sessions, or just the mingling at meals, PSE is a nonstop learning process for me, a series of insights and things-to-try that fill up my to-do list for months to come. I also look forward to the mind expanding training opportunities and the high intensity yet welcoming sprints that allow us to work collaboratively and give back to the Plone community."

Kim Nguyen University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

"… Your team (WebLion) always manages to put together a very balanced program that runs the gamut from educational theory (Chuck Severence from UMich), to insightful development and project management, to practical how-to presentations built for the neophyte or budding integrator / developer. … it's the incredible people of this community that make events like PSE so valuable…"

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