News for 2020

PLOG 2020 Training - 3 Weeks Left to Register!

PLOG 2020 Training - 3 Weeks Left to Register!

These free training classes will be given in Sorrento April 19-26 at the Plone Open Garden - the registration deadlline is February 28th

Plone Foundation Ambassadors for 2020

Plone Foundation Ambassadors for 2020

Regional and special interest ambassadors for Plone

Volto 4.0 Released

Volto 4.0 Released

Plone 6's new front end is ready for prime time

Plone Tagung 2020 – Dresden, Germany

Plone Tagung 2020 – Dresden, Germany

The Plone Tagung is the annual symposium for the Plone community of German-speaking countries

PLOG 2020 Replaced by Remote Sprint

PLOG 2020 Replaced by Remote Sprint

The pandemic has forced the cancellation of PLOG - but a remote sprint has taken its place

Plone and the Pandemic

Plone and the Pandemic

Secure, scalable, open source content management FTW

Plone 6 Remote Sprint - April 2020

Plone 6 Remote Sprint - April 2020

Tips for remote sprinting and a report on improvements to the default theme, Volto, new training materials and more

Zope and the Plone Foundation

Zope and the Plone Foundation

A tale of two software foundations and their ultimate merger

Plone’s Migration to Python 3

Plone’s Migration to Python 3

A brief history and the significance of our efforts to bring Plone into the world of Python 3.

A Very Successful 2020 Python Web Conference

A Very Successful 2020 Python Web Conference

Over 260 attendees from 6 continents, with Python experts presenting on 40 topics including Plone, Django and machine learning

Product Lifecycle Management with Plone

Product Lifecycle Management with Plone

Plone is a feature rich content management system out-of-the-box, but it can also be customized to power any content heavy, workflow driven process - in this example, multilingual paint product information

Great Progress on Volto at the 2020 Beethoven Sprint

Great Progress on Volto at the 2020 Beethoven Sprint

The Beethoven sprint at the end of May was held remotely but came to be a very successful one, focusing on Volto, the new React front end for Plone.

Plone Foundation Launches Governance Initiative

Plone Foundation Launches Governance Initiative

Rethinking Plone's organizational structure and community processes

Matthew Wilkes Publishes Book: Advanced Python Development

Matthew Wilkes Publishes Book: Advanced Python Development

The longtime member of the Plone community has written a must-have book for experienced developers

Plone Conference 2020, November 14 - 22 Will Be an Online Event!

Plone Conference 2020, November 14 - 22 Will Be an Online Event!

Plone Board has decided that this year's conference will be held 100% online - so join us from everywhere!

Volto 8 Released With Exciting New Features

Volto 8 Released With Exciting New Features

The schema and layout of custom types can now be created through the web

The First Plone Steering Circle Meeting

The First Plone Steering Circle Meeting

Twenty-two people from around the world attended the first in a series of meetings to discuss community governance

Plone 5.2.2 released

Plone 5.2.2 released

A bugfix release with many fixes and package version upgrades

Zope 5.0 released

Zope 5.0 released

Few open source projects have been running for over 20 years, but Zope is one of them. Latest release adds support for Python 3.9 among other things.

Plone Conference 2020 - Submit a Talk and Get Your Tickets!

Plone Conference 2020 - Submit a Talk and Get Your Tickets!

Plone Conference 2020 will be held in December 2020, so update your calendars, submit your talk proposal! Also, early bird registration is now open.

Plone Conference 2020 - A Sneak Peek

Plone Conference 2020 - A Sneak Peek

Thanks to the Plone community we have a wonderful assortment of submitted talks - here are some highlights

Mikel Larreategi becomes a member of the Plone Foundation

Mikel Larreategi becomes a member of the Plone Foundation

The Board welcomes a dedicated sprinter and developer since Plone 2.1

Data-driven Documents with Volto and Plone

Data-driven Documents with Volto and Plone

Start off with Plone’s CMS strength, mix in Volto’s all-around friendliness and you’ll get a system that can easily produce data-driven dashboards as editable documents with a free-form layout

Foundation Board of Directors Nominations Open

Foundation Board of Directors Nominations Open

If you have an interest and the time and energy to help out with Plone governance, please consider nominating yourself to serve on the Plone Foundation board of directors for 2020-2021

Plone 5.2.3, Plone 5.1.7 and Plone 4.3.20 released!

Plone 5.2.3, Plone 5.1.7 and Plone 4.3.20 released!

Final releases to 4.3 and 5.1 series, along with the latest 5.2.3.