A few random ideas for talks I’d like to see at Plone Conference 2008. In case anybody needs some inspiration. Chime in with your ideas! Name names! Even better, propose one of these talks! (Note: there are probably lots of talks I’d love to see that aren’t on this list, I just couldn’t think of them on the flight home from New Orleans!)
Non-technical
- Selling Plone: A Hands-on marketing workshop with Mark Corum
- Plone Foundation open-house: Foundation board members take questions. Â Need a moderator(?)
- State of Plone keynote: Alex & Alan.
- Consulting practice management panel — focus on small to medium-sized integrators and how they can grow and succeed.
- PloneGov overview — focus: how can it be a model for Americans? Â Xavier, Newport News people.
- Plone4Edu overview — Â Mike Halm, Chris Calloway. Â Explaining the model and how to replicate? Â Or pitching the Edu project to new potential members?
- Paul Everitt philosophizing about the community (?)
- Migrations and Migraines: Â Moving UW Radiology to Plone – Cris Ewig
- The Politics of Selling Plone inside large institutions – ?? Â panel?
Beginner
- Theming Plone 3  – Plone 3 way — Veda Williams (Also include GloWorm & CSS Manager)
- Buildout for beginners
- Practical deployment strategies for small organization or departmental sites  - Penn State or UW folks
- How to evaluate an add-on product
Intermediate
- Moving towards the core: an introduction to the Plone team’s developer practices. Â If you’re ready to start contributing to the Plone codebase, this is a quick introduction to our community’s best practices. Â Â Wichert? Â Alex? Â Martin?
- Brandon: intro to Zope Component Architecture (reprise of NOLA talk)
- Caching  - Calvin, Joel, or Ricardo.
- Intro to KSS: Joel Burton
- Plone-Salesforce Integration: Andrew Burkhalter
- Extending Plone’s built-in content types with SchemaExtender: Jon Baldivieso (?)
- State of multlingual support (Hanno)
- Making custom portlets the Plone 3 way
- Managing viewlets and viewlet managers to create customized page layouts
Expert
- Deliverance – Explained by someone who has good empathy for real-world themers. Â :-)
- Import/Export – Martijn Peters?
- Design session: architecture for next-generation commenting (Martin, Chris Johnson, Jon Stahl?)
Jon,
I wonder if I could team up with soem of your experts to talk about consulting practice management – and maybe someone from Web Collective, too – I tend to NOT like panels – you can get 20 minutes from each person that they didn’t have to prepare for! But it could be fun for us to find 2-3 people that could put a great presentation together.
That’s a great idea, Patrick!