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Cignex, the deployment leader in open source consulting and software services, will host the open source CMS industry’s largest gathering of open source experts at the Goldegg Packaging Sprint, at its Santa Clara headquarters, from November 7-11, 2005. Founded and funded by Cignex, the Goldegg initiative brings together one of the largest groups of open source experts and innovators in the content management (CM) industry to make the open source Plone CMS a viable alternative for enterprise CM.

The Santa Clara session will assemble 17 top developers from 13 companies and three countries. The goal of the session will be to establish a package distribution method that will lower the total cost of ownership for businesses that use the Plone stack for enterprise CMS. “By the end of the sprint, we will have developed a methodology that makes it more efficient and economical for enterprises to deploy CMS applications based on the open source Plone stack,” explained Kapil Thangavelu, open source evangelist, Cignex. “We will be dramatically streamlining what is currently a time- and labor-intensive process.”

Open source CMS visionaries such as Paul Everitt Founder of the Zope European Association (ZEA), Alexander Limi, founder and lead architect of the Plone content management system, Plone Foundation President Joel Burton, and well known Zope and Plone developers Thangavelu, Chris McDonough, and Michel Pelletier will be onsite at the Sprint.

“We are especially excited about the Santa Clara Sprint because it brings together some of the best and brightest minds in open source CMS, in the same place, at the same time, with the same goal,” said Munwar Shariff, Cignex CTO and Plone Foundation board member. “It’s this kind of concentrated, multilayered development effort that we believe will succeed in making Plone a robust system for content management.”

The results of the Sprint will be announced in December 2005 as part of the completion of Goldegg’s initial phase. The goal of this stage, Goldegg One, is to establish a roadmap for Plone that accomplishes two things: encouraging enterprises that have not yet adopted Zope/Plone for CMS to try the technology; and protecting the technology and resource investments made by existing Zope/Plone users. For specifics on the Santa Clara Sprint, visit http://plone.org/events/sprints/sj2
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