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New investors to eZ Systems(p7)

Report from PariseZ Conference & Awards 2009 summary | eZ Awards winners(p2)

New eZ Publish Installer(p8)

3 Case Studies(p10)

Site of the month(p11)

eZ Publish based enterprise content management for associations(p9)

S H A R E !M A G A Z I N EThe eZ Ecosystem Newsletter July 2009

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Summary from Paris(p2)

New investors to eZ Systems(p7)

New eZ Publish Installer(p8)

eZ Publish based enterprise content management for associations(9)

3 case studies(10)

Site of the month(11)

SHARE! Magazine is a monthly newsletter about the eZ Ecosystem. It features interviews, pictures, articles, reviews and content related to Open Source software, business and development. You can subscribe to this magazine by clicking here.

eZ Conference & Awards 2009 was held in Paris from 25 to 26 of June. Over 250 people from all over the world celebrated the 10th anniversary of eZ Systems, and enjoyed the two day conference on Thursday and Friday. Well over 30 speakers provided a highly professional package of sessions reaching from the developer and community track, web content management track, to the digital media track.

There were 6 sponsors of eZ Conference & Awards 2009 where Audaxis and YMC were the main sponsors. Track sponsors were Prosodie, Alter Way and Redpill Linpro and Interoute was sponsoring the partner day on Wednesday June 24th.The conference was held at Eurosites George V venue witch was situated at the center of the golden triangle in Paris right next to Champs-Élysées. The staff worked hard to get the 3 day event conducted smoothly and they responded very well to what is expected of a professional event venue.

eZ Awards on Thursday evening was attended by more than 300 people who could enjoy a band and our host for some years now, Marvin Charles. The 10 category list of awards were handed out to the ones that have contributed to Open Source and the eZ Ecosystem in an exceptional way. The 90 minutes show also included several songs like “Roxie” from the musical Chicago as a way to celebrate the success of the US operations started in the windy city during 2008. The evening end-ed with an after party at Le Queenie (kindly sponsored by NXC, once more Partner of the Year 2009), where all attendees met to have a few drinks and celebrate into the night.

Once again, eZ thanks everyone involved in eZ Conference & Awards 2009, and is already looking forward to next year’s edition.

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Content Summary from ParisBy Bertrand Maugain

2009 eZ Awards winnersOn the evening of Thursday 25th of June at eZ Conference 2009, special recognition was given to key people within the eZ Ecosystem and the Open Source community. With a full seated auditorium at Eurosites George V, the very special statuette was handed out to the winners of 10 categories.

Award 1: Blogger of the year The prize for Blogger of the Year is given to individuals we feel in particular have been blogging effectively to promote eZ. Important criterias are: - The amount of posts about eZ - The frequency of writing - The quality and accuracy of the posts Nominees: Gilles Guirand from Kaliop (FR), Damien Pobel from Smile (FR), Piotr Karas from Mediaself (PL), Bruce Morrison, independant consultant

Winner: Damien Pobel from Smile (handed out to Lucas Challamel on his behalf)

Award 2: Publication of the year The Publication of the Year award is given to a person who has written good content about eZ technology. It can be articles, case studies, documentation or books.The feedback about that content has been an important criteria as well as : - Generated traffic in case web publications - Provided accessibility for people who don’t know about the topic - Number of links to an article from an external site - Quality of content and impact of the publication for the community Nominees: Paul Wilson: How to import & export RSS Feeds, Robin Muilwijk: Importing and exporting word processor documents, Norman Leutner: Case study on Mobello.de, Francesco Trucchia: Book “eZ Publish 4 - Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step”.

Winner: Francesco Trucchia (IT)

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Award 3: Contribution of the year The Contribution of the Year award is given to the best contribution created during the last 12 months, based on: - The level of innovation - Market needs and demand - Technical quality Nominees: Varnish Control Center from Norman Leutner at All2e, Password Expiry from Xavier Serna at Microblau, Facebook Connect from Simon Schneeberger at YMC, eZ FTP from Damien Pitard at Prisma Presse

Winner: Xavier Serna at Microblau (handed out to Christophe Condomines on his behalf)

Award 4: The eZ Components Award

The eZ Components Award is given to a person who has:Good participation in discussions Contributed to patches Brought visibility to the project Helped promote the eZ Components Nominees: Benjamin Eberlei, Thomas Nunninger, James Pic, Thomas Koch

Winner: Thomas Nunninger

Award 5: Community member of the Year The Community member of the Year award is given to the most active community member during the last 12 months, based on: - Number and quality of contributions - Number of community postings in the forum - Bug reports and patches - Regular and steady flow of participation - Blog activity and online presence - Ability to create interest around their activity - Number of people helped in the community Nominees: Ivo Lukac, Mike Meiers, Jean-Luc Nguyen, Georg Franz

Winner: Georg Franz

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Award 6: Rising star of the year The Rising Star of the Year award is given to a new partner that signed up within the last year and simply is the most active new partner we have, based on: - Proven adoption of the partner model - Certifications / References - Most partner point Nominees: Grand Union (UK), Audaxis (BEL/FR), Argentea (IT), Naviatech (FI)

Winner: Naviatech (FI)

Award 7: Partner of the year The Partner of the Year award is given to the most active partner during the last 12 months, based on: - Partner pointsBusiness collaboration - Focus on eZ Publish Now and Premium - Participation on events - Article production - Activity in the community Nominees: NX Consulting (NO), Netmaking (NO), Cometa Technologies (ES), XROW (DE)

Winner: NX Consulting (NO)

Award 8: The Digital Media Website Award The Digital Media Award is given to the best and relevant media site last year based on: - Creative use of extensions and integrations - Technical challenging - Pushing eZ Publish forwards - Implementation of new concepts for digital media Nominees: Marieclaire.it by Hachette Rusconi (IT), Cosmopolitain.it by Mondadori (IT), Freeview.co.uk by DTV Services (UK), Femmes.com (FR) by Prisma Presse

Winner: Marieclaire.it by Hachette Rusconi (IT)

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Award 9: Site of the YearThe Site of the Year award is given to the best site among other verticals as e-commerece, non profit organizations, financial portals and more. It is based on: - Design, look and feel (value a modern and usable interface) - Reference value - In line with open standards Nominees: est.org.uk by Energy Saving Trust (UK), weg.de (DE) by Comvel Gmbh, socialistes.cat by Catalan Socialist Party (ES), gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr by La Gendarmerie Francaise (French Gendarmery)

Winner: est.org.uk by Energy Saving Trust (UK

Award 10: The Honorary award The Honorary award will be given to a long and faithful member in the eZ ecosystem, based on: - Steady flow of contributions - Constant interaction and innovation - Admirable conduct and example - Who contributed the most making eZ get attention in the market

Winners: Pierre Yves Policella and Stéphane Couzinier from Lagardère Active (FR)

2009 eZ Conference & Awards sponsors

Global Sponsor eZ Awards Sponsor

WCM Sponsor Community Sponsor Digital Media Sponsor Partner Day Sponsor

Audaxis is an industry–oriented IT services organization which specializes in open source enterprise applications (CMS, web portals, ERP, BI). It serves +300 customers operating in Media, Industry, NGO & Public sector.

YMC is focused on corporate multi-site Enterprise CMS and Social Media Applications. Based on Open Source solutions, YMC offers consulting, software development, maintenance and technical support services.

New investors to eZ SystemsHasso Plattner Ventures invests in the Norwegian enterprise content management company eZ – financing round opens path for global growth.

Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in the Norwegian enterprise content man- agement software company eZ Systems. The existing Norwegian investors BTV Fond, a Norwegian venture capital investment found (www.btv-invest.no), Rolf Knutsen AS, and Dynam also participated in the financing round. eZ Systems is in the expansion stage, active mainly in Europe and growing internationally with success both in USA and Japan. eZ’s main product, eZ Publish focuses on the vertical media segment and enables its users to manage their digital content and use them in web publishing, media portals, intranets, e-commerce and extranets. It runs on multiple platforms and is adaptable to all enterprise infrastructures. Large Media groups like Lagardere Active, Prisma Presse, Schibstedt, and Swiss Broadcasting Corporation use eZ Publish for publications like Elle, National Geographic, DinMat and Swiss TV online portal.

Eran Davidson, CEO of Hasso Plattner Ventures: “eZ combines an excellent technological so-lution with the advantages of an open source business model, as a look at their top tier clients shows. We are confident that eZ Systems will continue to grow on a global scale during the next years.” Aleksander Farstad, CEO of eZ Systems: “With Hasso Plattner Ventures we have gained a strong international partner, who will help us to roll out our product successfully in new regions. The capital inflow will give us the necessary push to get into the next expansion stage.”

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New installer released: eZ Publish is only a few clicks away!eZ Systems releases the first version of its new eZ Publish installer.

This new tool aims at giving a simple and nice way for users, developers, managers to install an eZ Publish stack on their computer. This package includes a Mysql database, an Apache web server instance with PHP and of course eZ Publish 4.1.3.

“We are very happy to release such an installer, says Roland Benedetti Product Manager at eZ. It is a great benefit to make our software available in a few clicks for new and existing users, developers and partners. We believe that it is the perfect way to get started with eZ Publish and running it for test, evaluation or even development purposes. Enterprises and or-ganisations looking for a content management system will find here a new reason to evaluate, consider and choose eZ Publish”. The installer is available for both Windows and Mac systems.

Download the installer here: http://ez.no/download/ez_publish_installer

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eZ Publish based enterprise content manage-ment for associationsAudaxis - a major sponsor of eZ Conference and Awards 2009 provides professional services on open source enterprise applications.

DAudaxis has a strong presence in associations and non profitable organizations, providing professional services for funds collection, membership subscription, networking, services management, document sharing, budgeting and all financial aspects.

Associations have most of the time a huge volume of data to process but limited and fast changing resources. They are therefore looking for agile web applications. Most of them have implemented hybrid CRM, content management, web and business solutions, resulting in redundant data entry or multiple data structure requiring complex and costful interfaces.

Quite often, associations are facing a dual issue : - On one side, they have to provide to their members a web site with general information, pro-file management, event agenda and personalized on-line services - On the other end, they need to integrate their member data with back office and accounting system to process services and payments.

Audaxis combines eZ Publish CMS framework with Compiere open source ERP to provide an integrated and robust interactive dynamic portal to deal with this duality.

eZ Publish CMS provides a powerful platform for information publishing on all services ex-pected by members : information portal including activities description, news, agenda, discus-sion groups, networking…

Compiere provides a complete solution to monitor master data such as members contact, status… and process services such as member fee payment, events registration...

Both systems are integrated through RESTFull interfaces.

For instance, when a member logs on the web site to review his profile, the profile informa-tion is taken out of Compiere. If the user makes some changes, those changes are sent back to Compiere as a request giving the possibility to implement a validation work flow on the back-end. If the member is paying his renewal fee online, the payment record is recorded within Compiere and the membership status is immediately updated.

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Multisite Portal for non-profit fundraising on eZ PublishSOS-Kinderdorf is one of the largest children aid organizations in the world. More than 60.000 children are raised in 900 institutions in 132 countries. Headquarters are located in Munich, Germany.

Download this full case study by YMC here: http://ez.no/customers/case_studies

Swiss TV uses eZ Publish for their news portal The Tagesschau The Tagesschau news magazine Swiss Television (SF) is watched by more than one million people every day. In the course of the integrated added value strategy of SF the corresponding online magazine serves 24.000 visitors per day.

Download this full case study by YMC here: http://ez.no/customers/case_studies

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The French leader of the IT Press 01Informatique chooses eZ Publish for Web Content ManagementMany publishers have already chosen eZ Publish for its outstanding capabilities for Digital Media both in the newspaper industry and in the magazine industry. But when IT Press leaders, as 01Informatique dedicated to IT managers, choose Smile (eZ Gold Partner) and eZ Publish to improve their web presence, it is a real recognition.

Download the case study by Smile here: http://ez.no/customers/case_studies

Site of the month: Gendarmerie Nationale http://gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr communicates to the staffs of the Gendarmerie (Police). The new version includes in other one commu-nity approach with forum, chat, polls, ads and a documentation base.

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