Nate Aune

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Nate Aune

Jazkarta

Biography

Nate Aune is founder and director of Jazkarta, a Boston-based consulting firm specializing in open source web solutions for non-profits and universities. Nate spearheaded the Plone4Artists project and regularly leads developer sprints to improve the multimedia and calendaring capabilities of Plone.

He organizes the Plone and Django user groups in Boston and is serving his third term on the Plone Foundation Board. Nate has presented at LinuxWorld, Grassroots Use of Technology, Non-profit Software Developer Summit, EuroPython, PyCon and PyConBrasil. Read Nate’s blog at http://blog.jazkarta.com and follow @natea on Twitter.

Open Source Bridge 2010

Sessions for this user

* Sphinx - the ultimate tool for documenting your software project

Open source software projects can succeed or fail based on their documentation. Thanks to Sphinx, open source developers now have a "documentation framework" that provides convenient indexing and automatic syntax highlighting, integrates your documentation with your code, and can automatically generate a beautiful manual as a PDF document.
Cooking
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Proposals for this user

* Everything you ever wanted to know about Amazon EC2

Amazon Web Services makes it possible to build scalable systems easily with very little upfront capital. Come to this session to learn about what's so cool about cloud computing, and how Amazon's suite of elastic cloud computing tools make your job easier.
Cooking 03/25/2010 08:39PM
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* Theme any website in two hours with Deliverance

Imagine if you could take any website design and use it as-is with any website or web application? Well, you can with Deliverance!
Cooking 03/25/2010 08:44PM
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* Why the Plone CMS is a good fit for Higher Education and Research

Universities and research organizations often have very specific needs when it comes to content management systems. This talk is a study as to why Plone is often chosen as the ideal CMS due to it's scalability, extensibility and metadata handling capabilities.
Culture 03/25/2010 09:19PM
Nate Aune

Open Source Bridge 2009

Sessions for this user

* How to build a successful open source software consulting company

Lessons learned from a successful open source consulting company. This talk is geared towards the open source developer who is considering starting his/her own business, and the entrepreneur who wants to grow the business by leveraging open source development methodologies.
Business
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Proposals for this user

* Plone in the Cloud - deploying open source applications to Amazon EC2

The rise of utility computing platforms such as Amazon EC2 has made it more feasible to build turnkey hosted solutions on top of open source software. Learn how we built PondCMS, a turnkey Plone-based CMS deployed to Amazon's EC2. In this talk, we will discuss the advantages of hosting Plone sites in the elastic computing cloud and some of the challenges we faced.
Chemistry 04/10/2009 05:38PM
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