Presentation:

This talk will cover creating your own custom site membership product -- which is very useful in many collaborative or community-based websites where you seek to gather information tied to a person joining the site. With this, you can efficiently search for specific members based on information in their profile (for example, if your member profile collects a list of "interests", you could present a member-specific list of all content in the site that shares the same values for interest), all while continuing to offer all the abilities to authenticate within the site and gain the roles and permissions a user has come to expect in a Plone-based site.

Behind the scenes, this leverages Plone's Membrane and ReMember products that provide the framework allowing you to:

1. Treat members as content. Thus, you gain the same benefits as other Plone content-types, such as workflow, rich search, and the Archetype development process.
2. Authenticate members using Plone's existing framework

Agenda:

• Presentation by Andrew Burkhalter
  
• We have money! (Donated by Joel Burton from hosting a Plone Bootcamp here last summer). Let's discuss.