Thursday, October 20
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8:00-9:00 am – Registration
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive
Everybody step right up! It's time to register for the conference, get your badge and your bag, and meet friends both old and new. Coffee will be served. You will need to show identification on the ground floor to gain entrance to the NERD center. As 9:00 am approaches, you'll travel to the MIT campus for the next event.
9:00-10:00 am – Keynote Address
Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab
Keynote: The Super Integrator
Annette will walk us through the process she uses to go from design comps to finished site in 2 weeks - with everything done through the web.
10:00-10:20 – relocate to Microsoft NERD Center
10:20-11:00 am – Talks and Demonstrations
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive
Mann Room
Ethics of Digital Marketing Platforms
Ethan will discuss the social, cultural, political, philosophical, and moral implications of these technologies.
Sampson/Paul Room
Learn How We Deliver. Continuously.
by Nejc Zupan
How to keep customers happy by delivering features fast, and bug fixes almost immediately - without breaking stuff.
Adams/Attucks Room
Faceted Searches with eea.facetednav
by Alec Ghica
A step-by-step demo.
Faceted Searches with collective.isotope
by Paul Roeland
A step-by-step demo.
11:00-11:10 – Hallway Track
Move between rooms, grab a bite. Talk amongst yourselves!
11:10-11:50 – Talks
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive
Mann Room
When Plone Is Not the Right Fit
What to use for web applications without a content management component?
Sampson/Paul Room
Docker and Plone
by Alin Voinea
From development to continuous deployment.
Adams/Attucks Room
Add Even Richer Interaction to your Site: plone.patternslib
Making it easy to use JavaScript patterns in Plone 5.
11:50-12:00 –
12:00-12:40 – Talks and Demos
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive
Mann Room
Plone 5 versus Drupal 8: Civil Comparisons
An up-to-date and educated comparison of the latest versions of the two popular enterprise-grade CMSes from the perspective of Plone and Drupal experts.
Sampson/Paul Room
How to get Plone on your OpenStack Cloud
A demo of automated deployments of Plone on OpenStack.
A Novel Undo Tool for Plone
by Sean Upton
A user-facing restoration system built around zc.beforestorage.
Adams/Attucks Room
Is Plone a Good Choice for Large B2C Websites?
by Lukas Guziel
What are the quick wins for companies using Plone for consumer oriented websites and applications?
Quaive: the Plone Intranet
A demo of Plone's intranet toolbox and its design-first methodology
12:40-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-14:40 – Talks and Demos
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive
Mann Room
The Headless CMS
by Érico Andrei
It's all the rage. Érico explains how to do it with Plone.
Sampson/Paul Room
Making Everyone Happy
by Jeff Bowman
Jeff will show us how Plone+Salesforce helps The Mountaineers, a diverse, volunteer-driven nonprofit, keep pace in the digital age.
Adams/Attucks Room
To Infinity and Beyond with Plone 5
Rikupekka peeks into his university’s future with Plone 5 - what challenges they might face and what benefits they will get.
14:40-14:50 –
14:50-15:30 – Talks and Demos
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive
Mann Room
Greater Than the Sum of the Parts
by David Glick
Lessons from integrating Pyramid, React, and Plone (and elasticsearch, and Salesforce, and a payment gateway, and...)
Sampson/Paul Room
Static Websites with Lektor
Static websites are back in vogue, and for good reason: they’re incredibly cheap, limitlessly scalable, and impossible to hack.
Adams/Attucks Room
Empowering Others by Removing Barriers
Making life easy for code contributors.
15:30-15:50 – Break
15:50-16:50 – Talks and Demos
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive
Mann Room
Deployment Showdown
by Sven Strack
Sven will host a live competition where entrants show how many different cloud platforms they can deploy a working Plone instance to in 15 minutes.
Sampson/Paul Room
Django + Salesforce
Bill will describe how Salesforce.com can be used as a Django database backend.
Modern LDAP User and Group Authentication
by Jens Klein
An update on pas.plugins.ldap.
Adams/Attucks Room
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions are open sessions where like-minded people gather to discuss interests they have in common (similar to the "open space" concept).
16:50-17:50 – Lightning Talks
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive
Mann Room
Lightning talks are quick off the cuff presentations that last up to FIVE MINUTES. Use them to rant, praise, muse, show off something you've done or something you think we need to know about! You will have a microphone, projector, and video projector.