1. Udalerria web plataforma
CodeSyntax
Mikel Larreategi - mlarreategi@codesyntax.com

2. CodeSyntax
● Since 2000
● Basque Country
● Web applications: corporate sites, intranets,
medium sized CMS
● i18n & l10n (Basque and Spanish)
● 15 people

3. Our clients
● Medium sized enterprises
● Associations
● Universities and educational institutions
● Public administration: local, regional
– Multilingualism (eu & es)
– PloneGov !!

4. Our clients
● Local government needs:
– Public websites
– Electronic Administration
● On-line document requests
● Job-vacancies
● Time-stamping of document publication
– Login with Certificates and/or Active Directory

5. PloneGov
● Local Governments share common needs
● Reuse not reinvent
● Things useful in Belgium could be useful
tomorrow in Spain
– For example: e-identification
● Useful to introducing us to other markets
– Universities & education
– Political parties

6. Udalerria web plataforma
CodeSyntax
Mikel Larreategi - mlarreategi@codesyntax.com

7. 1
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Udalerria web plataforma
CodeSyntax
Mikel Larreategi - mlarreategi@codesyntax.com
I'm Mikel Larreategi from CodeSyntax. I’m a
technician but I think that I can explain the
reasons behind our support to PloneGov. I
will start doing a presentation of our
company, our work, our work with public
administration, and our last decision to get
Plone for public administration and our
involvment in PloneGov thanks to ZEA and
Xavier’s work.

8. 2
CodeSyntax
● Since 2000
● Basque Country
● Web applications: corporate sites, intranets,
medium sized CMS
● i18n & l10n (Basque and Spanish)
● 15 people
We're a small company from the basque country, in
northern spain and southern france, we also speak
a not very common non-latin language called
Basque
We work with Zope since our company was created
back in 2000 by 3 people, and do web applications
like corporate sites, medium sized CMSs, Plone
Sites, SQL applications, ...
internationalization and localisation is very important
in our country and Zope has great tools for that,
and we use them in all of our projects.
We are 15 people in CodeSyntax, but not of all us are
developers, we are 8 developers, 2 designers and
3 people in content management and company
management
Web 2.0: blogs, maps, tags, social-mapping -> You
can check www.tagzania.com

9. 3
Our clients
● Medium sized enterprises
● Associations
● Universities and educational institutions
● Public administration: local, regional
– Multilingualism (eu & es)
– PloneGov !!
Talking about clients, our main clients are public administrations of all
levels (there are 4 levels of public administration, from local to
central in Spain) and enterprises and organisations created around
them (development agencies, for example) but also medium-sized
enterprises or other kind of association or institutions, like
educational ones, universities or research institutes. We are also
working with other companies in some Research and Development
projects.
We've made a lot of websites for local administrations around our area,
like this ones of small and medium sized basque cities, all of them
with plain Zope. All of them are multilingual in basque and spanish,
and are not as complex as a Plone application, but small/medium-
sized CMSs, directly managed by the client.
As I said, all of them are multilingual, because this is a very important
thing in a community like an ours, with two official languages
(Basque and Spanish), and administrations wanting to promote the
use of one of them (Basque), because of its poor situation.
Now we're doing new local administraition websites in Plone and
planning some migrations to Plone.

10. 4
Our clients
● Local government needs:
– Public websites
– Electronic Administration
● On-line document requests
● Job-vacancies
● Time-stamping of document publication
– Login with Certificates and/or Active Directory
Our local government clients share some
requirements:
● They need a public website with a CMS: Plone fits
perfectly here.
● According to Spanish Law, all Administrations
(there are 4 levels from local to national) must be
ready to e-administration: to make possible
citizens to use the website for contacting the
administration. They also need timestamping of
document publication for deadlines in job-
vacancies or other processes.
● Login in into Plone using e-cards or using Single
Sing On, because Active Directory is quite
common in public administration.
●

11. 5
PloneGov
● Local Governments share common needs
● Reuse not reinvent
● Things useful in Belgium could be useful
tomorrow in Spain
– For example: e-identification
● Useful to introducing us to other markets
– Universities & education
– Political parties
Thanks to our involvment in ZEA Partners, we knew about this
initiative, and found it very interesting. This kind of international
collaboration among different local small administrations from
Europe, is very important both for them, the final clients, but also for
our companies, ZEA Partnets and also free software and Plone
community, because ¿why should a spanish town should reinvent
the wheel of a product or a service that we have already created in
Belgium? We also realized that we were doing the same things once
an again in different projects, but because of the heavy
personalization of some of them, the bits of code were not reusable.
That made us think about writing small reusable components, and
helped us to realize the importance of initiatives like PloneGov,
because our products could be reused easily in other projects with
similar needs. And we clearly see, that all local administrations, from
Spain to Belgium, from Norway to Italy, share common needs and
have similar problems, and we are here to provide solutions for
them.
For example, last year we saw how Belgians managed to get identified
with their electronic ids in Plone, and we implemented a similar
solution for Spanish and Basque Id cards, and also implemented a
PloneFormGen field to extract values from id-cards (thanks to SSL)
Thanks to our involvment in PloneGov, we could get introduced in other
markets such as universities and education institutions (we have
some Plones published) and also in Political Parties (corporate sites
and campaign sites)

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Udalerria web plataforma
CodeSyntax
Mikel Larreategi - mlarreategi@codesyntax.com
Thank you !