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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 19, 2006

Plone Foundation Announces Broadcasting of the Plone Conference into Second Life

Seattle, WA - The Plone Foundation announced today the broadcasting of the Plone Conference 2006into the virtual world Second Life. It is the first big open source conference being colocated inside a virtual world. The event will be held from Oct 25-27

"We'll broadcast selected talks and tutorials each day into a virtual conference building inside Second Life. Residents who could not make it to the by-now sold-out conference can participate in virtual form. A back channel for their questions to the actual speaker will be provided, too"

The location within Second Life is Theta(154,194) and video from the conference will be streamed via Quicktime software to this location.

"We are very excited to bring Plone Conference to Second Life, and we believe we are the first open-source community to broadcast a conference here."

About the Plone Conference

The Plone Conference is an annual event at which the world-wide Plone community meets to learn or exchange ideas. This year's conference takes place in Seattle, WA from Oct 25-27 and over 300 people from 35 states and 20 countries will attend. Highlights of the program include keynotes from Alexander Limi and Alan Runyan, Plone's co-founders, and a talk from Eben Moglen about 'Software and Community in the Early 21st Century.

The conference homepage can be found at http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006

About Second Life

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by over 1 million people from around the globe.

To get more information or join Second Life for free please visit http://secondlife.com

About Plone

Plone is a leading open source Content Management System that balances out-of-the-box ease of use with powerful functionality. Thousands of organizations around the world including Marriott, eBay, NASA, and Oxfam use Plone to deliver websites that mature with their organizations. changing needs. Plone is available in over 35 languages, can be deployed on all platforms and is not tied to a singular vendor. The Plone ecosystem is composed of thousands of developers, over 50 consulting companies, user groups in over a dozen cities, several books and a 24-hour support forum.

For more information email Christian Scholz, mrtopf@gmail.com or send IMs or emails to his Second Life avatar Tao Takashi (tao.takashi@gmail.com).