Wednesday, October 19
Find the talks you most wish to see. You can click on a talk to see more detail about it.
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: Plone Futures
by Eric Steele
Eric will talk about the latest Plone developments - like the Rest API and the new approach to tiled layouts - that will make it even easier to support digital experiences.
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
Plone Server
An experimental new approach to Plone's backend was developed at the Barcelona sprint this summer.
Sampson/Paul Room
Tao of CSS
by Rob Porter
Lots of cool things can be done with CSS these days.
Adams/Attucks Room
TTW Theming
A demo of Plone's through the web theming tool.
TTW Content Types
A demo of Plone's through the web content type development tool.
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
REST API
Timo will describe the exciting work done at the Barcelona sprint on plone.restapi.
Sampson/Paul Room
Reporting Databases
What to do when you can't create a typical database report.
Adams/Attucks Room
Accessibility
by Paul Roeland
What accessibility means and why it is vital to your whole process, from design to devops to content creation and curation.
11:50-12:00 –
12:00-12:40 – Talks and Demos
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive
Mann Room
A JavaScript Plone Client
by Ramon Navarro Bosch , Eric Bréhault
Ramon and Eric will give us the scoop on the new Plone Angular app.
Sampson/Paul Room
A Pinch of Indirection
by Sean Upton
And don't cut yourself chopping onions - practical tips for using component architectures.
Adams/Attucks Room
TTW Tiled Layouts with Mosaic
by David Bain
A demo of Plone's through the web layout tool.
Managing Multilingual Content
by Peter Holzer
A demo of plone.app.multilingual.
12:40-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-14:40 – Talks and Demos
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive
Mann Room
Fixing Plone 5, the Framework
by Johannes Raggam , Jens Klein
A story of early adoption
Sampson/Paul Room
PyCharm
by Paul Everitt
A demo of the PyCharm integrated development environment for Python.
PDB Like a Pro
by Philip Bauer
How to become a better programmer through debug-driven development.
Adams/Attucks Room
Non-Plone Development with Plone
Being able to develop custom features on top of Plone without knowing Plone internals is critical for Plone's future, and it is now possible.
TTW Customization with Rapido
A demo of Plone's through the web customization tool.
14:40-14:50 –
14:50-15:30 – Talks and Demos
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive
Mann Room
From Zero to Plone: Towards Faster Developer Onboarding
by David Bain
The heart of this talk is about making it easier for new developers to get started with Plone.
Sampson/Paul Room
Plone API
Gil will give us an overview of the API and the process used to build it.
Adams/Attucks Room
Creating Collections
A demo of Plone's through the web tool for creating dynamic collections of content.
Getting Things Done with Content Rules
by Cris Ewing
A demo of Plone's through the web tool for making things happen based on content actions.
15:30-15:50 – Break
15:50-16:50 – Talks and Demos
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive
Mann Room
The ZODB
by Jim Fulton
Jim, the father of Zope, will talk about recent improvements and what lies ahead.
Sampson/Paul Room
Gold in Rio
Plone and the Brazilian Olympics.
The Future of Plone: Thoughts from a Marketing Perspective
Johanna will walk us through some marketing insights and present ideas about how to push Plone brand awareness.
Adams/Attucks Room
Dogs and Cats Living Together... Mass Hysteria!
by Adam Gesuero , Kevin Brooks
How designers and developers can get along.
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.