Pre-Conference Training Registrations Open
Registration is open for all four of the two-day training courses offered immediately prior to Plone Conference 2009.
The pre-conference trainings for 2009 have been expanded to four courses to better serve the needs of the Plone community. In the coming days, each of the four experienced instructors will blog more in-depth about their respective courses here on the conference blog. Joel Burton once again serves as our distinguished pre-conference training coordintator.
The four courses and their instructors are:
- Getting Started With Plone taught by Steve McMahon
- Plone 3 Theming: Best Practices taught by Joel Burton
- Best Practices for Deploying and Optimizing Plone Sites taught by Nate Aune
- Python 101 taught by Chris Calloway
Getting Started With Plone is perfect for those new to Plone. Steve takes you from the installation of Plone through the creation of a functional, useful Plone site. Steve is one of Plone's most respected experts and serves on the Plone Foundation Board of Directors in the capacity as secretary.
Plone 3 Theming: Best Practices is taught by the most experienced instructor in the Plone community, Joel Burton. Joel covers the knowledge you need to effectively theme your Plone 3-based Plone site, whether you are new to Plone or an experienced Plone developer or designer looking for the best practices for an excellent Plone theme or theme product.
Best Practices for Deploying and Optimizing Plone Sites is intended for system administrators, integrators, developers, and others who are responsible for deploying Plone 3 sites. In the course, Nate teaches Buildout configuration, backup procedures, caching and load balancing, deployment automation, and load testing. Nate is in his third term on the Plone Foundation Board of Directors.
Python 101 introduces you to the fundamentals of the programming language underpinning Plone. This is the second time this course has been offered in conjunction with Plone Conference and Chris has completely revised the training for 2009. Python 101 is an abbreviated version of the week-long PyCamp courses taught by Chris.
Book your travel plans for Plone Conference to arrive a couple of days early and register now for pre-conference trainings offered Monday October 26 through Tuesday October 27 at the ELTE Congress Centre on the banks of the Danube. Classes are conducted in state of the art facilities with catered snacks and beverages throughout the day.

