Presentation held at PyCOnWeb 2017 in Munich, about the history of several aspects of the Python Web.

1. /
A History of Web
Alexander Loechel

3. CC 3.0-BY-SA Wolfgang Sauber
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MNH_-_Mumie_Frau_1.jpg

4. Keynote Panel Discussion PyCon 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOUrf7WSSLc

5. What is
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„Plone soldiers on as the most venerable
Python-based CMS platform …“

7. Plone 5 - Plone the Product

8. CMSContent Management System

9. Plone is NOT a
web framework

10. Plone is a
Content Integration
Framework
(Enterprise Portal)

11. Plone / Open Source is
about Community

12. Brett Cannon, Python Core Dev
„come for the language,
stay for the community.“

13. You can take the man out of Plone
But you could not take the Plone out of the man
Source: Laurence Rowe - Plone Open Garden 2015 - Sorrento

14. A History of Python Web
Why . ?

15. Brandon Rhodes
Intro to Plone Keynote PyCon 2016
Plone & Python Web History?

16. But Start at the
Beginning

18. A Workshop on Python at NIST
-> SPAM 1 -> First PyCon

19. Attendees
http://legacy.python.org/workshops/1994-11/attendees.pics.html

20. Keynote Panel Discussion PyCon 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOUrf7WSSLc

21. A Workshop on Python at NIST
SPAM 1 - First PyCon - Topics
I've assembled a strawman list of topics for discussion. New topics
and comments on the topics listed are certainly welcome.
1. Requirements for a "Safe" Python interpreter
2. A standard GUI module interface definition for Python
3. The requirements for persistent objects in Python
4. A Python engineering graphs package
5. The standard Python WWW interface
6. Embedding Python in a WWW client
7. Technical information management using Python
8. Support for dynamic loading of foreign language modules in Python
9. Replacing make, rcs, and cvs with Python
10.An Electronic Data Interchange library for Python
11.Discussing the formation of a Python Consortium

22. Bobo
Workshop about CGI at IPC5 - Nov. 1996

25. • RestrictedPython
(https://github.com/zopefoundation/RestrictedPython)
• Persistence & persistent
(https://github.com/zopefoundation/Persistence)
(https://github.com/zopefoundation/persistent)
• ZODB (Z Object Database)
https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB)
A few Elements of
Bobo / Zope
1998

26. Traversal
/site/folder/page
{'site': {'folder': {'page': page_object}}}
Object Publishing
Z Object Publishing Environment

27. A Workshop on Python at NIST
SPAM 1 - First PyCon - Topics
I've assembled a strawman list of topics for discussion. New topics
and comments on the topics listed are certainly welcome.
1. Requirements for a "Safe" Python interpreter
2. A standard GUI module interface definition for Python
3. The requirements for persistent objects in Python
4. A Python engineering graphs package
5. The standard Python WWW interface
6. Embedding Python in a WWW client
7. Technical information management using Python
8. Support for dynamic loading of foreign language modules in Python
9. Replacing make, rcs, and cvs with Python
10.An Electronic Data Interchange library for Python
11.Discussing the formation of a Python Consortium

28. Digital Creations, L.C.
later became
Zope Corporation
Employees
• Jim Fulton
• Paul Everitt
• Tres Seaver
• Chris McDonough
• Guido van Rossum
• Barry Warsaw
• Jeremy Hylton
• Fred Drake
• Tim Peters
• ...

30. Content
Management
Framework
1998

31. Meet 1999 on IRC
Alex Limi Alan Runyan
CMFPlone

33. A Workshop on Python at NIST
SPAM 1 - First PyCon - Topics
I've assembled a strawman list of topics for discussion. New topics
and comments on the topics listed are certainly welcome.
1. Requirements for a "Safe" Python interpreter
2. A standard GUI module interface definition for Python
3. The requirements for persistent objects in Python
4. A Python engineering graphs package
5. The standard Python WWW interface
6. Embedding Python in a WWW client
7. Technical information management using Python
8. Support for dynamic loading of foreign language modules in Python
9. Replacing make, rcs, and cvs with Python
10.An Electronic Data Interchange library for Python
11.Discussing the formation of a Python Consortium
First Board of Directors
Python Software Foundation
March 5, 2001 - IPC9
• Greg Stein
• Paul Everitt

34. Python community - around 2000
„Where Zope leads,
Python follows“

36. 2001

37. Sprints

39. First Annual International
Plone Conferences
First spin off conferences in the Python World

40. Brandon Rhodes
Intro to Plone Keynote PyCon 2016
Plone & Python Web History?

41. „While Zope
has become the
Killer Application
written in Python,
Plone was the
Killer Application
on top of Zope.“

42. Zope
Community
Plone
Community

44. Hanno Schlichting - Zope Release Manager
„Every piece of Zope that
was not adopted by Plone is
literally dead.“

46. Python 3 Wonderland

47. Lessons Learned
The Good & The Bad
We have learned from our mistakes,
and we keep our users and developers in mind

48. >>> import this
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to
break the rules.
…
PEP 20 - 19. Aug. 2004 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
PEP 1 - 13. Jun 2000 / PEP 8 - 5 July 2001

49. Philip J. Eby - Python Core Developer - Author PEP 333/3333 - WSGI
„Those who do not study
Zope, are condemned to
reinvent it.“

50. A Workshop on Python at NIST
SPAM 1 - First PyCon - Topics
I've assembled a strawman list of topics for discussion. New topics
and comments on the topics listed are certainly welcome.
1. Requirements for a "Safe" Python interpreter
2. A standard GUI module interface definition for Python
3. The requirements for persistent objects in Python
4. A Python engineering graphs package
5. The standard Python WWW interface
6. Embedding Python in a WWW client
7. Technical information management using Python
8. Support for dynamic loading of foreign language modules in Python
9. Replacing make, rcs, and cvs with Python
10.An Electronic Data Interchange library for Python
11.Discussing the formation of a Python Consortium

51. bobo
Principia
ZODB
ZeroDB
NewtDBCMF
Silva
ZMS
Nuxeo
ZCA
ZTK
Grok .
Blue Bream
repoze.bfgmorepath
twisted
aiohttp
Paster
WebOb
Pylons
Ruby on
Rails
plone.server
WSGI
Evolution Tree around Zope/Plone
Zope 3
SubstanceD
Kotti

52. Plone Roadmap (in short)
Plone 5.x series
• blocks & tiles
• Zope 4
• UI Improvements
• plone.restapi
• JS: webpack
headless guillotina
• plone.restapi
• modern JS
frontend
(angular/react)
• content as a
service
• Plone 5.x
codebase
Plone 6.x series
• aiohttp based
• 100 % restapi
• horizontal scale
• Python 2.7 +
3.4+
• New UI/UX
(„Pastanaga“) for
Core
• No Archetypes
• tiles as default

53. Paul Everett - Introducing
Jim Fulton @PloneConf2016

54. Plone Security
„Security is not a state it is a process“
Standing on the shoulders of giants
• Zope Security Architecture
• Fine grained permission system
• RestrictedPython and AccessControl
• Software Design Process
• Skeletons & Code Generators
• Configuration of most aspects
• Permission and Security inheritance
• Most OWASP Vectors did not apply
• Long Security Cycles (5-7 Year per Mayer Version)

55. John Gall - Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail
A complex system that works is invariably
found to have evolved from a simple system
that worked. A complex system designed from
scratch never works and cannot be patched up to
make it work. You have to start over with
a working simple system.
CC3-BY-SA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tokyo_by_night_2011.jpg

57. „Choose the Right Tool for the Job“

59. First Conference with an extra Track
for related Python technologies:
• SQL Alchemy
• repoze / Pyramid

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