[TriLUG] NC*SA Meeting - Mon, May 13th - Zope (fwd)

Thu May 2 22:42:14 EDT 2002

fyi - for those of you who might be interested in zope...

						lisa

---------- Forwarded message ----------

The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators
organization (NC*SA) is upcoming.  Details about the meeting and
directions are provided in this note.  We hope to see you there!

                    NC*SA General Meeting
             6:00 pm, Monday, May 13th, 2002
                     Dreyfus Laboratory
                 Research Triangle Institute
                  Research Triangle Park, NC
                     (directions below)

	Topic: Building Content Management Systems with Zope

	Speakers:	Jim Fulton, Zope Corporation

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Presentation Abstract:

Web sites are growing increasingly sophisticated and dynamic.
Businesses need new ways to brand and engage customers, on larger and
larger scales.  Managing the daily flow of content to support these
goals has become an expensive, brittle proposition. Content-management
systems automate content-management processes.

Content-management processes vary by organization and the
content-management systems that automate these processes need to be
highly customized. This is why one-size-fits-all solutions are often
ineffective and why the largest source of content-management software
is in-house development.

The Zope Content-Management Framework is a framework and toolkit for
building custom content-management systems. Because it is a framework
and because it is open source, it allows organizations to build the
system right for them without starting from scratch or being dependent
on a single vendor.

This talk will provide an overview of business issues affecting
content-management system decisions and of the capabilities and
application of the Zope Content-Management Framework.

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Speaker Bio:

Jim Fulton is the chief architect of Zope and the Zope object
database.  Jim joined Zope Corporation (then Digital Creations) in
1996 as technical director.  Jim brought his extensive object-oriented
modeling and development experience to bear on web application
development.

Before joining Digital Creations, Jim developed software and managed
application software support at the U.S. Geological Survey Water
Resources Division. He developed innovating scientific software and
tools for integrating scientific modeling, data analysis and
data-management tools.

Jim has an extensive background in object-oriented software
development, and has served on the Python Software Activity Steering
Committee and the ANSI Smalltalk committee.

Jim earned a M.S. degree is Software Engineering from George Mason
University, a M.S. degree in Systems Engineering from Case Western
Reserve University, and a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Case
Institute of Technology.

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Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic
of the evening and/or system administration.  We will be providing
food and drink for the evening. If you have any questions please
contact the Steering Committee at:

  ncsa-steer at ncsysadmin.org

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Directions to Research Triangle Institute:

Directions to Research Triangle Institute
See also a map to the meeting place.

>From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill):

Get onto I-40 heading east. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Stay in right lane. Shift right as soon as
possible after merging with traffic coming off I-40 westbound.

Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn
to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going
the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift
immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute
Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus
Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot
in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance.

>From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh):

Get onto I-40 heading west. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Shift to rightmost lane as soon as possible Exit
to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn to
the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going the
wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to
the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the
second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the
first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and
enter at the main entrance.

>From north of RTP (e.g. Durham):

Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south. Exit at the Cornwallis Road
exit. At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the bridge. After
turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take
the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of
East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on
your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main
entrance.

A map of RTI is available at http://www.rti.org/images/campus.gif

Enter through the glass doors at the front; all of the doors except one
will be locked, but one will be open for our access.  Walk through the
lobby, go straight out the glass doors, across the patio, and straight
into Dreyfus Auditorium.

--
Lisa Lorenzin
NC*SA Program Coordinator