Who Uses Plone?

A sampling of institutions using Plone in education

Universities

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

UNC is the oldest and second largest university in Argentina, the fourth oldest in South America and the sixth oldest in Latin America. Plone is used for the main university site, as well as a university-wide system for managing bulletins about financial resolutions.

Universität Koblenz-Landau

http://www.uni-koblenz-landau.de -- Germany

One of the youngest universities in Germany, the University of Koblenz-Landau has strengths in Computer Science and Psychology, as well as traditional Departments of Education, the Humanities, and Natural Science. Their Plone website was created in 2007 and supports the daily workings of all departments. It uses Plone's multilingual capabilities to support content in German and English.

University of California Los Angeles

http://www.engineer.ucla.edu -- USA

In 2011, UCLA made the strategic decision to standardize on Plone, and there are now over 25 Plone sites at the University. They created a new hosting infrastructure that can support on-demand provisioning of Plone sites either as microsites managed by a single Plone instance, or stand-alone sites on virtual machines. They also developed a system based on the PubSubHubbub protocol to syndicate content across university sites. PubSubHubbub is a simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol that extends Atom and RSS. It allows near-instant notifications (via webhook callbacks) to clients when a feed URL is updated.

K-12 Schools

Rocky View Schools

http://www.rockyview.ab.ca -- Canada

Serving residents to the west of Calgary, Alberta, Rocky View Schools has over 16,000 students in grades K-12. It is the sixth largest school district in the province, with more than 1,000 teaching and 700 support staff. Rocky View Schools chose the open source Plone CMS because it offered them the enterprise-level security and user management features they needed, with no licensing costs attached. They are now running more than 30 school sites.

Albuquerque Public Schools

http://www.aps.edu -- USA

On a tight budget and tired of vendor lock-in, APS needed a robust and secure content management system. They chose Plone based upon reports of its success at the City of Albuquerque.

Research Institutions

UNAM Instituto de Matemáticas

http://www.matem.unam.mx -- Mexico

The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is one of the most recognized universities in Latin America, and the only university in Mexico with Nobel Prize laureates among its alumni. The prestigious Instituo de Matemáticas uses Plone to support its members' research activities by managing detailed information about their publications, presentations, symposia, conferences, and other research activities.

Dumbarton Oaks

http://doaks.org -- USA

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is an institute of Harvard University dedicated to supporting scholarship internationally in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies. The Plone site makes their unique collections of Byzantine seals, coins, rare books, and other objects available to researchers around the world. All content is geocoded and has extensive metadata, making it possible to create rich displays of dynamic content collections on maps or in faceted searches.

Courseware

OpenCourseWare Consortium

http://www.ocwconsortium.org -- Worldwide

OpenCourseWare provides large-scale, web-based publication of course materials. Formed in 2005 by MIT OpenCourseWare and others, the consortium now has hundreds of members worldwide. publishing thousands of courses. The system uses Plone as its CMS component.

Connexions

http://cnx.org -- Worldwide

Connexions is a global repository of educational content provided and maintained by Rice University free of charge. It provides a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks that can be remixed as courses, books, reports, etc. The content comes from all over the world in a growing variety of languages. It is grassroots organized from the bottom up - everyone is free to join and take on a leadership role. Plone provides "workspaces" that facilitate collaboration with shared space and the ability to version materials and derive content from existing modules.

Libraries

Barrington Digital Library

http://diglib.shrivenham.cranfield.ac.uk - UK

Cranfield University's Barrington Digital Library has been continuously developing its website for more than ten years on Plone. The vision for the site is to provide a single seamless interface to all of the library's services and resources. It provides a large amount of functionality, including: electronic resource management, collection management, customer management, inter-library loans, training calendar, bookings, alumni services' and an intranet for Library Staff.

Texas A&M University Libraries

http://library.tamu.edu -- USA

The five campus libraries and the Digital Library at Texas A&M provide access to general and special collections with over 400,000 e-books, as well as digitized theses and dissertations.

University Presses

University of Minnesota Press

http://www.upress.umn.edu -- USA

The University of Minnesota Press is one of the most distinctive American university presses, with an international reputation for publishing boundary-breaking and intellectually rigorous work. Their Plone site provides a compelling faceted search experience that immerses users in an exploration of the thousands of book titles in the UMP catalog. Plone is integrated with UMP's backend publishing system so that it is easy for staff to push each new season's books to the web.