David Siedband — Plone Developer

Welcome to Oceanic Sky

Oceanic Sky is the online portfolio of David Siedband. I have a lifelong interest in communication and technology, and the connection between them. I am primarily interested in technology as a catalyst for change. My body of work centers around bringing open source tools into the service of environmental organizations and socially responsible businesses. The common themes that unite my work are building community and supporting online collaboration.

Just Launched: Bay Nature Magazine

Bay Nature is "An Exploration of Nature in the SF Bay Area". They've been one of my favorite magazines since they launched in 2001, and I connected with them to build a web version of their publication. I developed a custom (Plone-powered) content-management system and integrated several 3rd party apps and services including OpenAds, the Pleiades Geocoding engine, a robust Squid-based caching system, and a bespoke mapping application. I'm really pleased with the final product and look forward to visiting this site to find new places to explore and continue learning about the natural world around me.

Plone Science Sprint

On February 2-5, 2008, I organized programming sprint in Davis, California to make Plone an even better tool for scientific collaboration. We primarily worked on bibliography and ontology tools. You can read the report on plone.org.

EnviroBaseTypes

EnviroBaseTypes is a toolkit for building environmental databases in Plone. It provides core content-types for environmental portals, such as Project, Person, Resource, Organization, Event, News Item, and Species. These content types are intended to be customized into more specific content types such as PollinatorResource, EducationOrganization, etc.