Learn the ins and outs of using Plone as you build your professional-looking website.

1. Got Plone? Now what?
FULVIO CASALI - ful v i oc a s a l i@gma i l . com
DAVID GLICK - dg l i ck@gma i l . com
CRIS EWING - c r i s@c r i s ewing . com
JESSE SNYDER - j e s s e@r a s ika consul t ing . com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
2 100 BUILDING

2. Introductions
• Name
• Organization
• Do you have a Plone
site?
• Since when?
• What brought you here
today?
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Final Survey
 No public Plone events in past
two years+ in Seattle
 Are you interested in future
activities and events about
Plone?
 What would you like to see?

4. • YOU DO NOT HAVE A PLONE SITE YET
• YOU ARE READY TO REBUILD YOUR SITE
AND ARE WONDERING WHAT PLATFORM TO
CHOOSE
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Why Plone?

5. • Word-of-mouth disadvantage
• No detailed side-by-side comparisons, but please see:
Idealware’s Consumers Guide to Content Management
Systems for Nonprofits
(google: idealware cms report)
• Consensus: choose a firm first, go with the system they
know best or recommend
Important aspects:
• Security
• Active ecosystem
• Capabilities
• Governance
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Why Plone?

7. • CIA, FBI, governments, universities
• Intrinsic in the architecture
• Best security track record of any major CMS
• Frequency of security updates (think: Windows)
• Plone: 1-2 per year
• Other common platforms: about every 2 weeks
• Likelihood of a security update breaking something on the
site
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Security

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Active
Ecosystem

9. • More choice in providers
• More add-ons
• More documentation
• More google
• More sites
• More clients
See https://www.openhub.net/p/plone
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Active
Ecosystem

11. One slide could never capture the full range of features of any
CMS. Here are just a few areas in which Plone stands apart,
without any add-ons:
• Accessibility (US Section 508, WCAG - Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines)
• Essential for public agencies
• Over 40 languages: Internationalization, Localization,
multi-language content support
• No admin screen
• Enterprise-oriented features: workflow, user/groups, roles
& permissions, solid DB
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Capabilities

13. • Non-profit Plone Foundation (since 2004)
• Safeguards trademarks
• Conduit for support of community events
• No private/corporate ownership
• Open Source without private ownership: no secret backdoor
deals with NSA
• Trustworthy for many governments
Downsides:
• (almost) no marketing
• No central command & control
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Governance

15. Prior to 2011, (at least) three major Plone providers in Seattle:
• GroundWire (formerly ONE/NorthWest)
• NPower
• Web Collective
Hundreds of organizations on Plone sites in the region, mostly
environmental, social, non-profits, mostly local.
End of 2011: Web Collective closes. Most Plone clients hosted
by Soliton Consulting.
2012: GroundWire closes (.org). All 110 Plone clients
transferred in bulk to third party.
End of 2012: NPower merges with 501 Commons
Vacuum?
But: most individual Plone professionals are still locally active.
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State of Plone
in the PNW

17. Plone 5!
• A lot of work happening
• Much excitement
Demo
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The Future of
Plone

18. A User’s Guide
to Plone 4 Compliments of Enfold Systems
© 501 Commons
http://www.enfoldsystems.com
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20. Demos