Universities and institutes often use Plone for their websites but have similar needs and develop their own incomplete solutions. Migrating Plone 2.0 sites to 3.0 is difficult. The German Zope User Group wants to create a dedicated website for universities using Plone to share information, best practices, references, and software in a collaborative way by first focusing on individual departments instead of entire institutions.

1. Plone4Universities
Andreas Jung

2. Why P4U?
• Chairs, institutes and faculties are often using
Plone
• Most of them have very similiar needs
• Most of them have their own half-baked solutions
• from the view as a solution provider :
• migrating such sites from Plone 2.0 -> 3.0
is a nightmare
• from view of the German Zope User Group
(DZUG):
• we have tight contacts with several German
universities (with big installations)

3. We had a successful
and promising
BOF session last night!

4. www.plone4universities.org

5. www.plone4universities.org (1)
• dedicated website for universities/institutes using
Plone
• provide information what Plone can do for
university people
• mailing list
• list of references, list of available software
• better visibility of related projects

6. www.plone4universities.org (2)
• documenting best-practice approaches in a clear
way
• bottom-up: focus first on chairs/institutes
• don‘t try to approach a complete institution with
Plone
• better collaboration between related projects
(pooling of money and resources)
• Plone4Universities starter pack

7. ...coming to you soon...
(next week)