eZ Publish Berkeley, California Meetup

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A Grand Two-Day Event for the Ecosystem

UC Berkeley - Clark-Kerr Conference Center, Room 104

Twitter hashtag: #ezcali

Day 1: Monday, March 19, 2:30pm

2:30pm (note: room is available from noon with free WiFi)
Introductions (name, where from, organization, eZ experience) 3:00pm
The Community (MC is Peter Keung) meetup purpose next meeting planning topic brainstorm 3:15pm
Marketing eZ Publish (led by Joe Briand) how to raise the visibility of eZ Publish how do we deal with consolidation at the upper end of the industry 3:45pm
eZ Systems news: eZ Publish roadmap and partner program by Jon Henry, Senior Technical Consultant, Professional Services Division, eZ Systems 4:15pm
Break Case studies and technical talks 4:30pm
Background processing with eZ and Gearman by Joe Kepley, Development Director, Blend Interactive
Blend has developed a method to easily extend eZ to implement background task processing across multiple servers using Gearman. We'll cover the basics of Gearman and our extension that makes it eZ to build Gearman tasks for eZ Publish, and demonstrate how it works. 5:00pm
High-traffic media sites: common themes, keys to success, and eZ Publish best practices by Peter Keung

Using The Christian Science Monitor (http://www.csmonitor.com), Computer Shopper (http://computershopper.com), Rasmussen Reports (http://www.rasmussenreports.com), and The 49th Shelf (http://49thshelf.com) as examples, we'll touch upon the following topics:

Site architecture; attracting and keeping visitors; helping content editors; external services; making money; maintenance and growth; development aids 5:30pm
Mobile site best practices by Greg McAvoy-Jensen 6:00pm
Recurring Calendar extension for eZ Publish by Joe Kepley, Development Director, Blend Interactive

Blend has developed an extension that allows for the simple creation and management of recurring events and 'calendar' type tasks. I'll talk briefly on the data model for recurring events and demonstrate the extension, which is available via GitHub. 6:15 - 7:00 break if needed

7:00pm Dinner at Berkeley Free House (http://berkeleyfreehouse.com/)

Day 2: Tuesday, March 20

9:00am

• Conference call with eZ Systems co-founder and product innovation board chair Bård Farstad (http://ez.no/About-eZ/Our-Leaders) and Regional Director, USA, Sophie Hill; if you are not attending the in-person conference, join this call here (https://www.meetup.com/eZ-Publish-Users-Developers/events/56390642/)

10am-11:30am:

• What's new in eZ Publish 4.5 and eZ Publish 4.6 by Jon Henry, eZ Systems

12:00pm Lunch at Jupiter Beer (http://www.jupiterbeer.com/jupiter/)

1:30 - 4:30pm Napa Valley wine / champagne trip

Accommodations

For those who are coming from out of town, we suggest the Hotel Shattuck Plaza, which is a few blocks from the conference location and next to the subway station:

http://www.hotelshattuckplaza.com/

Contact info

Lost? Call co-organizer Greg: 916-220-4252