Thinkubating Or How Local Government Came To Love Plone

The Problem Approached To Setup a Collaborative Environment Needed to be Easy To Use And Yet Needed To Be Secure Needed To Be Available Anywhere There Was An Internet Connection Needed To Support Indexing of a variety of documents

Approached To Setup a Collaborative Environment

Needed to be Easy To Use

And Yet Needed To Be Secure

Needed To Be Available Anywhere There Was An Internet Connection

Needed To Support Indexing of a variety of documents

A Solution Presents Started Hunting For An Open Source Solution Had Been Helping With iosn.net (Plone Based Site) Plone Had A User Friendly Front End Plone Had Granular Security Settings Plones Third Party Products Allowed For Document Indexing and Support Bingo

Started Hunting For An Open Source Solution

Had Been Helping With iosn.net (Plone Based Site)

Plone Had A User Friendly Front End

Plone Had Granular Security Settings

Plones Third Party Products Allowed For Document Indexing and Support

Bingo

First Council Plone Project Tablelands Way Experience(tm) Five Councils: Oberon Council (Lead Council) Goulburn Mulwaree Upper Lachlan Lithgow City Mid-Western Other Organisations – Tourism Orgs, Advisors and So On

Tablelands Way Experience(tm)

Five Councils:

Oberon Council (Lead Council)

Goulburn Mulwaree

Upper Lachlan

Lithgow City

Mid-Western

Other Organisations – Tourism Orgs, Advisors and So On

This

Was Used To Build This http://www.tablelandsway.com.au

PloneGov US/European Project Develop Plone and Plone Products Specifically For The Government Sector Number of Councils/Government Bodies Participating No Australian Government Participation Not For Want Of Trying However

US/European Project

Develop Plone and Plone Products Specifically For The Government Sector

Number of Councils/Government Bodies Participating

No Australian Government Participation

Not For Want Of Trying However

Temwick Tuskers Every Year Councils Take Part In The Management challenge Last Year Randwick Council Teamed Up With Temorah Council Distance Was An Issue In Training Needed A Platform For Sharing Information And Training

Every Year Councils Take Part In The Management challenge

Last Year Randwick Council Teamed Up With Temorah Council

Distance Was An Issue In Training

Needed A Platform For Sharing Information And Training

Tuskers Win

Winning Help Extranet Allowed For Phone Based Training Sessions In A Way That Email Couldn't When Face To Face Meetings Happened They Were All Up To Speed Geography Was No Longer an Inhibitor

Extranet Allowed For Phone Based Training Sessions In A Way That Email Couldn't

When Face To Face Meetings Happened They Were All Up To Speed

Geography Was No Longer an Inhibitor

Oooh Shiny Impressed With Ease Of Use Started Looking For Other Uses Community Collaboration Inter Council Collaboration Actively Sought Involvement with PloneGov

Impressed With Ease Of Use

Started Looking For Other Uses

Community Collaboration

Inter Council Collaboration

Actively Sought Involvement with PloneGov

kensotraffic.com.au Kensington Traffic Issues Community Wanted More Input and Consultation Council Decided To Create kensotraffic.com.au Document Library Council/Community Interaction

Kensington Traffic Issues

Community Wanted More Input and Consultation

Council Decided To Create kensotraffic.com.au

Document Library

Council/Community Interaction

Every Document Since 1998

Document Previews

Community Benefits Community members can comment on any document The Community has a central location to find all the relevant documents Council Has Another Avenue For Talking To The Community The Problem Can Be Owned By Everyone

Community members can comment on any document

The Community has a central location to find all the relevant documents

Council Has Another Avenue For Talking To The Community

The Problem Can Be Owned By Everyone

PloneGov Aus Style There Is An Opportunity To Build A PloneGov Style Project In Australia The Use Of Plone Within Government Is Growing A Guided And Stable Project Can Only Help Local Governments Build A Real Collaboration Platform PloneGov Is OOOG Compliant

There Is An Opportunity To Build A PloneGov Style Project In Australia

The Use Of Plone Within Government Is Growing

A Guided And Stable Project Can Only Help Local Governments Build A Real Collaboration Platform

PloneGov Is OOOG Compliant

Thinkubator The Next Hosted Plone Without The ZMI Building a Prettier Management Panel Fixing Date/Time Issues (grumble) Integrating New Collaboration Services Doing It All With Open Source Technologies Fun!

Hosted Plone Without The ZMI

Building a Prettier Management Panel

Fixing Date/Time Issues (grumble)

Integrating New Collaboration Services

Doing It All With Open Source Technologies

Fun!

Final Notes Visit The Tablelands Way Experience, They Built it Using Open Source Plone Is A Powerful CMS, So Long As You Use It Properly There Is An Opportunity To Build A Solid Collaboration Platform For Government Python Is Wierd

Visit The Tablelands Way Experience, They Built it Using Open Source

Plone Is A Powerful CMS, So Long As You Use It Properly

There Is An Opportunity To Build A Solid Collaboration Platform For Government

Python Is Wierd