CMI OpenWeb^® is a part for-profit, part non-profit organization that works tirelessly in helping to envision, build, and maintain an open, fair, green, and accessible Internet for everyone, from both a technical as well as a political perspective.

We are located along the I-99 PA Innovation Corridor - Home to the Pennsylvania State University, the I-99 Innovation Corridor is a global center for advanced materials research; information sciences and technology; product distribution; health services and life science applications.

PROJECT (PRO BONO)
CMI Arts Social Enterprise Web Site
In partnership with the Centre County Youth Service Bureau, CMI Arts donates a percentage of every sale to the Youth Service Bureau in Center County, PA to help finance the efforts around the well being of the children they provide for. CMI OpenWeb has taken on this long term partnership to provide, free of charge, all of the necessary services to design, develop, and maintain a fully functioning ecommerce web site and logo design for CMI Arts. We are proud to be a part of this arrangement.

TECHNOLOGIES / METHODS
Joomla, ecommerce

ROLE
Web Developer, UX, Photographer, Imaging Specialist

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www.cmiarts.org

Logo Design: Greg O'Toole, otoole.info.

I am giving a talk at this year's Plone Symposium East at Penn State University with co-speaker Christina McNeill titled "Creating and Maintaining (Plone) Content Provider Groups". The abstract is as follows:

As a web developer and manager in the Social Science Research Institute at Penn State, we have a fairly large set of users on our many Plone sites. In Fall 2011 a group started up called the SSRI Web Group for the Plone content providers to train, ask/answer questions, and generally keep open the lines of communication about the processes they were using in order to do what they needed to do in Plone every day. A talk about this group, its formation and maintenance was given at the PSU Plone Users Group in early 2012. The PUG talk was successful and initiated a larger discussion about help, best practice, and standardizing practices for Plone - as well as general web - content providers. That discussion spawned a series of ongoing PUG-based sprints to create a university-wide resource repository to meet all of these web professionals' needs. This talk covers what was covered in the PUG talk, and includes progress on the larger resource initiative with collaboration from other web professionals at Penn State. This talk will be useful to designers and developers who are involved with user groups, as well as content managers and providers of all levels.

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Rewards of Teaching

College of Arts and Architecture, CE, The Pennsylvania State University

When Greg O’Toole was working as a photojournalist in western Montana ten years ago teaching at Penn State University wasn’t in his plan, but that is exactly what he is doing now. After completing his masters degree at the University of Denver in 2005, and beginning his Ph.D. work in 2008, Greg knew he enjoyed the academic setting and had in the back of his mind that someday he might try college level teaching while continuing with web and digital media research and development. For the past two semesters, he has taught Photography 100 - titled Introduction to Photography - to continuing education students in Williamsport and enjoys the challenge and satisfaction of helping people learn.