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In 2003, the Pittsburgh-based web development team for the [http://www.rand.org/ RAND Corporation] embarked on a 27-month project to modernize their [http://www.rand.org/pubs/ online bookstore]. To manage the 20,000+ pages of content involved, they selected the Perl-based open-source [http://bricolage.cc/ Bricolage] system. Join former RAND Web Technology Manager Neal Sofge for an in-depth exploration of how Bricolage works, its strengths and weaknesses, and its performance in real-life enterprise-class usage. | In 2003, the Pittsburgh-based web development team for the [http://www.rand.org/ RAND Corporation] embarked on a 27-month project to modernize their [http://www.rand.org/pubs/ online bookstore]. To manage the 20,000+ pages of content involved, they selected the Perl-based open-source [http://bricolage.cc/ Bricolage] system. Join former RAND Web Technology Manager Neal Sofge for an in-depth exploration of how Bricolage works, its strengths and weaknesses, and its performance in real-life enterprise-class usage. | ||
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= Business Meeting = | = Business Meeting = |
Revision as of 19:53, 13 April 2008
WPLUG will have a general users meeting and presentation on Saturday, December 8th, starting at 10am on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University, Newell Simon Hall 3002.
Schedule for the Day
9:30am - Setup
10:00am - Doors Open
10:30am - Business Meeting Starts
10:45am - Business Meeting Ends
11:00am - Featured Presentation
12:30pm - Break for Lunch
2:00pm - Finish clean up, everyone out
Speaker/Presentation
Neal Sofge of RAND
In 2003, the Pittsburgh-based web development team for the RAND Corporation embarked on a 27-month project to modernize their online bookstore. To manage the 20,000+ pages of content involved, they selected the Perl-based open-source Bricolage system. Join former RAND Web Technology Manager Neal Sofge for an in-depth exploration of how Bricolage works, its strengths and weaknesses, and its performance in real-life enterprise-class usage.
Neal's slides are now posted on his .Mac account, which hopefully won't get clobbered by all the traffic from here...
Business Meeting
- Reading and approval of minutes from October meeting
- Reports of officers
- Chair
- Vice-Chair
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Member-at-Large
- Reports of committees
- Program
- Public Relations
- Internet
- Investigating
- Newsletter
- ErieLUG
- Unfinished business
- New business
Meeting Staff
If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the categories below.
- Host: Your Name Here
- Co-Host: Your Name Here
- Donuts: Patrick Wagstrom
- Setup: Vance Kochenderfer, Patrick Wagstrom
- Clean Up: Vance Kochenderfer, David Ostroske