PloneSocial integrates social networking into the open source Plone CMS. For more information see https://github.com/cosent/plonesocial.suite and http://bit.ly/Vd0O57

1. Plone Goes Social
Guido Stevens
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@GuidoStevens Twitter

2. Plone Goes Social
● Why
– Social Business
● What
– Demo
● How
– Performance
– Philosophy

3. Social Business
● $1.3 trillion value opportunity
– McKinsey study
– $ 1,300,000,000,000 per year
● 25% productivity increase
– replace email with social networking
“We estimate that social technologies can
raise the productivity of interaction workers by
20 to 25% if they become fully networked
enterprises”

4. Social Business
● documents → people
● structure → flow
● hierarchy → network

5. Evolve or die
Web 1.0 Web 2.0
● publish + read ● read/write
● content management ● social networking
● document tree ● activity stream
● place-centric ● time-centric
● global state ● personal perspectives
● top-down control ● bottom-up sharing
Plone out of the box Bits & pieces

6. Demo

7. PloneSocial features
● Microblog status updates
● Activity stream view + portlet
– microblog status updates
– content creation
– plone.app.discussion comments
● Social networking
– personal profile with follow/unfollow actions
– followers/following social graph views
– activity stream filtered by “following”

8. Installing plonesocial.suite
● buildout.cfg
[instance]
eggs = Zope2
PIL
Plone
plonesocial.suite
● Quick Installer
– Plonesocial Suite
● No extra dependencies
● only for demo content: plone.api + loremipsum

9. plonesocial.*
● plonesocial.suite
– one-click installer
– integrates low-level building blocks:
● plonesocial.microblog
● plonesocial.activitystream
● plonesocial.network
planned:
● plonesocial.like

10. ZODB Performance
● Commit collisions
– out of the box: 10-20 commits/sec
● Drop some ACID
– batched commits once per second
● simple threading.Timer() without plone.app.async
– skip ZCatalog indexing
● provide own indexes on time, author and tags
● Writes > 1000 status updates /second
● read performance scales horizontally, not an issue

11. Leverage upstream performance
● ZODB BTrees
– C optimized dictionary interface
● *BTree.intersection()
– fast Set operations
– filter by: tag, author, following
– killer feature for personalization
● itertools.chain()
– merge microblog + ZCatalog results

12. PloneSocial philosophy
● Native Plone
● Full social experience
● Pre-integrated one-click install
● Flexible components
● Scale down
● Scale up

13. Get it!
● Installation
– pypi: plonesocial.suite
● Customization
– It's all just Plone
● Extension
– https://github.com/cosent
● you'll find all the plonesocial.* packages there
● GPL licensed