more than 65000 potential user, 100 editors and a large number and variety of services for different types of users. More than 60 departments, 15 faculties, 60000 students, 1700 employees and 2000 teachers: this is the University of Bari, one of the biggest educational institution in Italy. And this is the reason for which the University decided to invest in web technology to provide and integrate services for all types of university users. This process starts from an old static website of thousands of html pages in a situation of strong constraints of costs reduction and needs of efficiency and effectiveness increasing. Every department/faculty had its own site, in own way and own style. The challenge: the use of efficient technology simple to learn and flexible for all. We have build the new portal of our University using Zope/Plone with the aim to transform the elephant in a fast gazelle. In this session we present this experience from the begin to end: to convince the bosses, learn Plone, customize Plone, to pattern the information, training the users and, finally, organize the cluster. This talk is aimed to users with a basic knowledge of Zope/Plone and "CMS evangelist".

1. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI Plone: an elephant metamorphosis tool Vito Falco Centro Servizi Informatici (Centre for IT Services) UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI [email_address]

2. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI More than 65000 potential user , 100 editors and a large number and variety of services for different types of users. More than 60 departments, 15 faculties, 60000 students, 1700 employees and 2000 teachers: this is the University of Bari , one of the biggest educational institution in Italy . This is the reason for which the University decided to invest in web technology to provide and integrate services for all types of university users. This process starts from an old static website of thousands of html pages in a situation of strong constraints of costs reduction and needs of efficiency and effectiveness increasing.

3. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI Università degli Studi di Bari University of Bari (Italy) Founded in 1924 Students: up to 60.000 Professors: 2.000 Tecnical and administrative employees: 1.600 First level courses: up to 150 Faculties: 15

4. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI Chancellor Chief executive Board of directors Accademic senate Offices … Faculties Departments

5. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI Old www.uniba.it

6. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI Old www.uniba.it (internal page)

7. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI Old site examples Department for Animal production Old site Faculty of Literature Old site

8. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI Webmaster Department Faculty Professor Office Secretary of Centre for IT services web ftp

9. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI Web DB www.uniba.it www.departmentX.uniba.it www.facultyX.uniba.it www.officeX.uniba.it www.event.uniba.it …

10. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI www.apd.ict.uniba.it

11. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI sodalitas.ict.uniba.it

15. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI User/editor (tipically employee with administrative skill) Webmaster (Centre for IT Serv.) Web responsability

16. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI PROCESS STATES OF DOCUMENT (plone standard wf) PRIVATE DRAFT REVIEWING PUBBLISHED Editor (tipically employee with administrative skill) Reviewer (tipically manager or chief office) Web

17. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI CUSTOM FOLDER

18. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI PARAMETRIC CSS

19. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI LOAD CSS WITH CONDITION

20. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI UNIBA.IT

21. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI UNIBA.IT – Internal page

22. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI Faculty of Literature – new site

23. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI New object type - view

24. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI New object type - edit

26. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI Our configuration for clustering

27. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI CENTRO SERVIZI INFORMATICI THANK YOU! Vito Falco With a professional and always accurate collaboration of Alessandro Ceglie [email_address] P.S. Thank’s to the Zope Italia Association!