The new Plone Foundation board election will take place soon at the Plone Conference 2006 from Oct 25-27 in Seattle and there’s still need for some nominations. The more, the better!
So here are the requirements and the process (quoting from an email by Paul Everitt):

1) Log in on plone.org and go here:

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Eben Moglen, Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School, and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation, will give a Friday morning keynote talk at Plone Conference 2006 entitled, “Software and Community in the Early 21st Century.”
Eben Moglen is the lead author of the […]

The registration of the upcoming Plone Conference 2006 taking place in Seattle is closing soon. Deadline is October 15th 2006 and if you want to join then register today at the Plone Conference Website
According to conference organizer Jon Stahl 265 people are registered already and he expects around 300 to be the final number. […]

My final post on the DZUG conference is intended to give you a little idea what happened in general and giving a little
summary of the keynote by Martijn Faassen.
The conference in general
First of all we had plenty of talks splitted into two tracks with an additional workshop […]

COM.lounge is proud to announce a new video blog called COM.lounge TV.
This video blog is derived from the well-known mrtopf.tv and will from now on contain the more technical posts from that. mrtopf.tv will then just hold the not so technical posts.
Compared to mrtopf.tv we will also extend the scope of this blog a bit. […]

PloneGov
Bernhard Bühlmann, 4teamwork.ch
http://plonegov.ch
Bernhard Bühlmann talks about his experiences of using Plone for projects for the government
Plone is not universally loved (in Switzerland)

IT departments are not open to Open Source, Plone is seen as a thread
established companies have a good working lobby
“nobody ever has been fired for using Oracle/SAP/Microsoft”
Big projects are put out to tender as […]

CMFLinkChecker
Christian Theune, Christian Zagrodnik
CMFLinkChecker, Link Monitoring Server
Christian Theuni was talking about CMFLinkChecker and and Christian Zagrodnik was talking about the Link Monitoring Server (LMS).
The LMS is meant to be a central link checking web service which is asked by the CMFLinkChecker (and possibly other tools). Thus
the link checking is not done by the Plone site […]

First Russ gives a little demonstration of LinguaPlone by

defining the neutral language as being german (this is the language which will be shown in the two-pane view)
adds a translation for english
translates the content and saves it
also translates it to Whelsh

Then he talks about LinguaPlone in relation to big companies and which requirements those have and […]

Armin was holding one of two talks about Plone and multilingual content. He was giving an overview about
content, article and application life cycles supporting multilingual content.
life cycle of an application
Things to consider:

task and goals
it’s not just a simple IT task
check all possible scenarios
development costs vs. running costs (where do […]

Christian Theune is part of the assembly web team (in form of gocept as being a sponsor) and presented his experiences in hosting such an event with a Plone site and doing the live coverage. He started by showing a great demo by the group Fairlight which was sort of a music video but done […]