Development of a Content Management System Based on Plone

The Chair of Computer Science 5 (Information Systems, Prof. M. Jarke) offers a position as a student research assistant (Hiwi). The position is from 10 to 12 hours per week.

The main task is maintaining and developing our content management system (CMS, http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/cms) based on Plone. More specifically:

• Customizing the presentation layer
• Developing new functionalities (e.g. integrating Web 2.0 services, developing web-based database interfaces)
• Refactoring existing code.
• Fixing possible future bugs in the running CMS.

The candidate is expected to have the following skills:

• Experienced with web development (e.g., HTML, CSS and JavaScript).
• Programming skills in Python are desired, but not mandatory.
  
• Background in Zope/Plone is preferred.