Arnhem, the Netherlands will host the 2012 Plone Conference, the Plone Foundation announced today following a vote of the foundation membership. The Arnhem proposal, championed by Dutch Plone Developers Four Digits, beat out a competing proposal for the conference to be held in Paris, France which was made by Abstract and Fanelli Consulting.
The Plone Conference 2012 will be held in Arnhem on October 10-12, with pre-conference training on October 8-9 and a post-conference sprint October 13-14.
You can find out more here - http://plone.org/news/plone-conference-2012-host-announced
The first Plone Conference in Munich is being held from February 22-24, featuring talks, training and Sprints. Keynote Speakers include Plone Foundation President Matt Hamilton, Elizabeth Leddy of the Plone Framework Team, and Plone co-founder Alan Runyan.
You can find out more about the conference by visiting their website - http://konferenz.plone.de/
by Saba Resnick
Ploud is a free software as a service platform for the Plone content management system (Plone SaaS).
Evaluating and deploying a basic Plone site got a lot easier recently thanks to the folks at Enfold Systems. They have developed Ploud, a platform that allows users to create a Plone site in under a minute (or as it is written on the company’s web site, in 10 seconds). Ploud can be used by individuals, consultants and organizations to evaluate or deploy the Plone CMS without having to install any software. In addition to Plone's standard features, Ploud includes popular, trusted, add-ons for enhanced functionality like web forms, image rotation, calendaring, Facebook integration, and a choice of themes.
Ploud is free for basic usage. If later your site requirements grow in complexity or you need expanded support, you can easily migrate to a fee-based hosting platform.
Ploud is deployed using a high-availability VMware vCloud solution on multiple redundant SANs with redundant switch fabric. The facilities feature low-latency IP connections through multiple providers on enterprise Cisco routers and switches. The facility has 24×7 onsite security staffing with surveillance and access control and is SAS 70 Type II certified.
Ploud provides a valuable service to the Plone community by allowing anyone to quickly and easily create a free Plone site. It is currently in Beta status and Enfold Systems is soliciting feedback to help them improve the service. Give it a try!
Since the recent Plone Conference 2011 in San Francisco, we've seen an influx of new contributors sign up to add their code to Plone. We'd like to welcome the newest members of the contributors group and say how much we appreciate your deciding to be involved.
The latest contributors are:
Adam Cheasley
Adam Terrey
Aleksi Korvenranta
Alin Voinea
Andre Gustavo E Nogueira
Asko Soukka
Chris Thomas
Cleber J Santos
Daniel Marks
David Mote
Derrick Stone
Douwe uld Mey
Emanuel Sartor
Esa Matti Suuronen
Federico Marcelo Castro
Franco Pellegrini
Ghica Alexandru
Giacomo Spettoli
Gustavo A. Lepri
Heather Harter
João Sebastião de Oliveira Bueno
Jukka Ojaniemi
Kai Lautaportti
Kim Paulissen
Lukas Graf
Marco Martinez
Mark Corum
Michael Davis
Noe Nieto
Nuyens Andre
Philippe Gross
Richard Barrell
Richard Mitchell
Roberto Allende
Roman Susi
Ross Reedstrom
Thiago Tamo Sauskas
Tom Blockley
Tyler Randles
William Deegar
The Plone Foundation Board of Directors has announced the selection of Chrissy Wainwright and Maurizio Delmonte as the newest members of the Plone Foundation.
Chrissy Wainwright is the Senior Template Developer at Six Feet Up, based in Indianapolis, Indiana (USA). She has implemented Plone themes for dozens of sites, including indianahistory.org, uvahealth.com, and sfari.org. She has taught Plone theming classes for several years, including the Plone Symposium East at PSU and the Plone Conference 2011 in San Francisco.
Maurizio Delmonte is a Plone consultant with Abstract Open Solutions in Potenza Picena, Italy. Part of the Plone community from the outset, he contributed the first italian translation of Plone, and still maintains the current version with the Plone Italian Translation Group.
You can find out more here - http://plone.org/news/new-foundation-members-wainwright-delmonte
Plone Symposium East 2012 (PSE12) at Penn State University is just around the corner - May 22-23, 2012.
Speakers
Share your knowledge with the Plone and Zope communities at the Plone Symposium East 2012. Tell others about what you are doing. Teach others about your latest development. Show off your latest tools. Weblion has begun accepting proposal for Speaker sessions. Speaker slots fill up quickly and speakers get a reduced registration fee, so get your proposal in TODAY! Proposals will be accepted until March 12, 2012, so don't delay! Here is the link for proposing talks - http://weblion.psu.edu/symposium/session-proposal
Training
The folks at Weblion have put out the call for trainers who would like to hold training sessions in the two days prior to PSE - on May 20-21st. It is an opportunity to teach others how to be successful with open source. Interested trainers have time to submit their proposals between now and February 13. You can find out more about the proposals process by visiting http://weblion.psu.edu/symposium/training-proposal
We're happy to announce that a brand new group of writers and editors located around the world has stepped up to help make that news more up-to-date and global. The new Plone Editorial Team will oversee the writing and approval of news on Plone.org as part of our overall efforts to better market and communicate about our favorite CMS.
Jules Allen
Mark Corum
Jorge Gonçalves
Gustav Franzsen
Carol Ganz
Jean Jordaan
Sally Kleinfeldt
Rose Pruyne
Saba Resnick
Jon Stahl
Rijk Stofberg
You can find out more here - http://plone.org/news/plone-editorial-team-announced
Got a story you'd like to see in next month's News from the Plone-iverse? Send a note to news@plone.org and we'll do what we can to include it.
]]>This is the time to submit your proposal to speak at PSE12 events on May 19-21, 2012.
Speaker slots fill up quickly and speakers get a reduced registration fee, so get your proposal in TODAY! Proposals will be accepted until March 12, 2012, so don't delay!
Here is the link for proposals: http://weblion.psu.edu/symposium/session-proposal
Maurizio Delmonte is a Plone consultant with Abstract Open Solutions in Potenza Picena, Italy. Part of the Plone community from the outset, he contributed the first italian translation of Plone, and still maintains the current version with the Plone Italian Translation Group. Maurizio helps update the plone.it site, which is undergoing a progressive evolution both updating site's contents and pushing the Italian Planet Plone rss. He's been involved in the organization of Plone Conferences 2007 and 2009, European Plone Symposium, Plone Open Garden, Sorrento Sprint and ContènTOUR and since 2003 he has continuously attended events to promote Plone and its community (the first time was in 2003 in Padova, then in various editions of the Linux Day, the last time at Better Software, a major Italian tech event). He is currently a member of the Plone Foundation Board of Directors and Membership Committee chair for 2011/2012.
The Plone Foundation is the organization formed in 2004 to serve as a supporting organization for Plone and its community. Members of the Foundation are chosen by the Foundation's Membership Committee on the basis of merit - specifically that they have made significant, enduring contributions which benefit the general Plone community. (The membership guidelines are available here.)
The Foundation is happy to welcome Chrissy and Maurizio as our newest members.
The two proposals came from:
Arnhem, The Netherlands - by Four Digits
Paris, France - by Abstract and Fanelli Consulting
The board will be reviewing the proposals between now and January 13th as part of a due diligence process. They will then release the proposals prior to an advisory vote by the membership between January 16th and 20th.
Following the membership vote, the board will meet, make a formal decision, and announce the location for Plone Conference 2012 on January 23rd. The conference will take place in October or November of 2012.
]]>You can find out more about the marketing and communications team by visiting http://plone.org/marketing
]]>The winning conference venue will be announced in January 2012 and foundation members will have an opportunity to voice their preference on the final selection.
You can find out more from the original call for proposals, available here:
http://plone.org/events/conferences/plone-conference-2012
For those still working on proposals, you might also want to read a recent blog post by Yadi Dragtsma of Four Digits. It includes an excerpt from an interview with the 2011 Plone Conference conference co-ordinator Elizabeth Leddy, providing insights from someone who was in the midst of the process just a couple of months ago.
]]>We're happy to announce that a brand new group of writers and editors located around the world has stepped up to help make that news more up-to-date and global. The new Plone Editorial Team will oversee the writing and approval of news on Plone.org as part of our overall efforts to better market and communicate about our favorite CMS.
The members of the Editorial Team are:
Jules is a founding member of the Plone Foundation and a Zope fan since the late 90's. He was a formerly a journalist who focused on explaining open source and the then nascent World Wide Web to a non-technical audience. He's been a sysadmin, code monkey, art director, cartoonist, typographer, and can still kern a mean headline. He has held C-level positions with a number of software companies and communications firms where he sneakily introduced open source products unbeknownst to the grown ups.
Mark works at the University of Virginia, where he is involved in web development, design and instruction. His background includes marketing for some of America's largest companies, dozens of political campaigns, and stints as a journalist, script doctor, research engineer, political consultant, brand manager and graphic designer. He has lead the marketing and communication team of the Plone Foundation since 2008 and was twice a member of the Board of Directors (2009-2010 and 2010-2011).
A Portuguese journalist, with also a degree in Computer Science, had for some time a weekly radio program about IT, has helped launch "Portugal Virtual" the very first local internet on-line magazine, back in 1995 (yeah, not Plone yet those days, only pure old HTML... ;-) ). Currently living and working in Brazil, works with Zope and Plone since 2003, mainly to help create intranets and manage documents.
Upfront Systems
Have been using Zope and Plone since beginning of the millenium. Have always been associated with Upfront Systems in Stellenbosch, South Africa. I present Plone (User and Administrator) training and do some content management. I am a Plone user not a developer ... :)
UNEP/IW:LEARN
Jean has been working on Zope and Plone websites for about ten years, with a few excursions as technical writer. Badly named methods, inconsistent variable names, and poorly written docstrings makes him sad. He likes Sphinx docs, but usually ends up reading the reStructuredText source. He is a serial submitter of patches to READMEs.
Jazkarta - USA
My interests and experience include data and content management, information retrieval, computer aided design, environmental conservation, scientific visualization, and GIS. I have a Ph.D. in biology and love creating Plone applications that make scientists more productive. At Jazkarta I specialize in the education and science sectors and direct our training and support services.
Weblion / PloneEDU - USA
Rose Pruyne has designed, developed, and administered Web sites and Web applications since 1995. She currently is responsible for Penn State’s Dairy and Animal Science Web site and related projects. Rose is part of the WebLion Plone documentation team.
Brokerjet - Slovenia
Saba works part time at Brokerjet, an e-brokerage house, in marketing department and part time as a writer for Slovenian entrepreneurship web site. She has a Bachelors Degree in marketing and is now doing Masters at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics.
Jon Stahl is current a graduate student in Public Administration at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. Previously, he worked at Groundwire, who have launched over 170 Plone sites, hosted Plone Conference 2006 and made many contributions to Plone. Jon has served three terms on the Plone Foundation board of directors, as secretary in 2007-2008 & 2010-2011 and president in 2008-2009.
Upfront Systems
Programming since 1995, I eventually found my way to python, zope and plone via Roche Compaan and Jean Jordaan at Upfront Systems. I have worked in small, medium and large corporations in the telecommunication, financial, agricultural, fresh produce, backup/ disaster recovery and content management domains. During the past 15 years I have occupied positions as systems analyst, designer and developer. Projects like Siyavula, Connexions, TARMI and Fullmarks are currently my pride and joy, because I want to be involved in projects and communities that actually make a difference.
If you are interested in getting involved as a member of the communications team, please drop an email to news@plone.org. We're actively looking for new members, particularly in areas of the globe which have not been represented in the past.
Plone migrations can be a bit naughty and not nice for our users. The focus of this Tune-Up will be product maintenance. If you have a product you created or help maintain that is not Plone 4 compatible, today is the day to commit to making it so. If you do not have a commitment to any one product feel free to choose any open ticket in the tune-up list or in the Trac instance on plone.org.
Plone Tune-Ups are regularly scheduled online events that give developers the chance to select and work on resolving issues. Not everyone wants to be a core developer or maintain a product in Plone, but most people have the ability to squash a few bugs, provide QA or improve documentation. Every time you give time back to the community you make Plone a better solution for everyone. As an open source system, Plone relies on developers of all interests and skill levels to participate so that Plone can continue to be a leader among open source Content Management Systems. Experts will be available in a special IRC chat #plone-tuneup if you need help getting started.
The Tune-Up prize will be a rare and coveted Plone Tune-Up t-shirt. In the past, these shirts have been awarded for: closing the most tickets, helping new people get started or generally being helpful to others. Up to one shirt may be awarded per Tune-Up at the discretion of the Tune-Up managers.
Friday, December 16th, 2011
9am-6pm in your local time zone!
http://plone-tuneup.ning.com
Join us at #plone-tuneup on irc.freenode.net
Twitter tag: #plonetuneup
View the list of other tickets you could work on: http://tinyurl.com/TuneUpBugs
(if you choose tickets in this list, please tag them "TuneUp")
The most recent development release is Plone 4.2a1! If you are working on Plone 4 tickets, please point your buildouts to https://github.com/plone/buildout.coredev
-> On Tune-Up day, go to #plone-tuneup in IRC and ask for a ticket to work on if you don't know which one to pick. If you're wondering about the sort of tickets people start out with, look for tickets tagged as "newbie" or "greenbelt" .
-> Once you have chosen a ticket, be sure to "accept" it. If you can't, review the process to get commit rights at http://dev.plone.org/plone/wiki/ContributeCode
-> Get the Plone 3.3 buildout at http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plonenext/3.3
-> Fixes for the 4.1 are on http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/buildouts/plone-coredev/branches/4.2/
-> Paste error messages and code to http://pastie.org/ to share them with others in the Tune-Up room.
For information about Plone Tuneups, contract Carol Ganz, carol@sixfeetup.com.
]]>The event targets anyone interested in professional content-management with an special focus on decisionmakers and editors. There will be talks for every skill-level, trainings for power-users and designers new to Plone as well as sprints throughout the week for developers. Part of the event is the "Plone Hochschultagung" a meeting of all German Universities using Plone, and a huge party.
Most of the talks will be in german. You can find out more at http://konferenz.plone.de
To submit a talk please use the form on the website (http://konferenz.plone.de/veranstaltung/vortrag-einreichen) or contact Philip directly by email.
]]>The main responsibility of the Membership Committee is to evaluate membership applications from individuals that want to become members of the Plone Foundation. The Membership Committee makes recommendations to the Plone Foundation Board of Directors, who have the final authority to approve or reject membership applications.
Applications for membership are reviewed by the committee approximately every two months with recommendations from the committee forwarded to the Board at the next subsequent board meeting.
Information about the membership committee is available here
]]>All that is required to become an OSI Affiliate is a formal statement by the Board that Plone endorses and support the mission of the Open Source Initiative and wishes to become Affiliated. Following that, the foundation will appoint a delegate to represent Plone to the OSI, as well as possibly participating in OSI working groups.
"Plone operates in a sector with a large number of both Open Source and proprietary products," said Plone Foundation President Matt Hamilton. "With Open Source now becoming the default for many customers, it is more important than ever to protect the definition of the term Open Source against corruption. By working alongside the OSI, The Plone Foundation can help further promote and protect both Open Source in general and Plone as a truly Open Source Content Management System."
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community.
OSI was established at the end of the 90s to advance the idea of open source - pragmatic software freedom based on objective definitions. In the decade that followed, the Open Source Definition became the keystone for the doorway to software freedom and OSI's stewardship of the OSD and its expression in evaluating open source licenses was crucial to establishing open source as the norm for software development and deployment. As the slogan for this year's OSCON said, open source has moved "from disruption to default" - from being a force for change driven by the few to being the benchmark for excellence respected by the many.
You can find out more about OSI by visiting http://www.opensource.org/