1. 10 Things You Probably
Don't Know about Plone
Nate Aune, Jazkarta, Inc.
http://www.jazkarta.com
Software Freedom Day
9/20/2008
www.jazkarta.com 888-756-6348
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2. What is a CMS?
• supports collaborative production and
maintenance of web sites
• it enables division of labor
• it provides tools for authoring content
• it enables doing things systematically
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7. Solves many use cases
• Public facing websites
• Intranets / extranets
• Group collaboration sites
• 1358 sites listed at plone.net/sites
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8. Education
• Harvard University • Yale University
• Rice University • Duke University
• Penn State University • Columbia University
• Utah State University
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15. Non-profit
• Oxfam America / Oxfam UK / Oxfam Canada
• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Amnesty International (amnesty.ch)
• Free Software Foundation (fsf.org)
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27. Just click and edit
• Any field can be made one-click editable
• Improves user experience
• Only load page elements that need refresh
Kinetic Style Sheets (KSS)
www.kssproject.org
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29. Search results as you type
• Similar to Google Suggest
• Search results appear instantly
• Faster and more effective
http://plone.org/products/plone/features/2.1/livesearch
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40. Collaborating on and offline
Online Offline
• IRC channel : #plone • 12 sprints in 2007
• 54 Mailing lists on gmane.org • 6 annual conferences
• Twitter: @plone • 2 symposiums in 2008
• LinkedIn Group • 25 User groups
in 11 countries
• Ploneability events
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42. More info about Plone
• plone.org (official site of Plone)
• plone.net (vendors, case studies)
• plonebook.info (free eBook)
• plone.tv (screencasts, podcasts)
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43. Join the Boston Plone
User Group!
NEXT MEETING:
Thursday, Sept. 25 @ 7pm
Betahouse, 13 Magazine St. #2 (Central Sq)
http://plone.meetup.com/1/
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