Having Plone Conference 2025 and revived PyCon Finland 2025 in University of Jyväskylä on October 13-19 and seeing people come here from 30 different countries and enjoying their time was truly something special. Week was filled up with training, over 70 talks and a development sprint, but even more with meeting cool people. It was energising thanks to everyone being so nice (and getting free hugs when ever there was a chance). Read the full summary of the week.
Feedback Notes
Asking to evaluate the conference on the scale of 1-5, where 1 is bad and 5 is very good, we got the overall score of 4.87/5.
"Very nice!" to quote Borat.
Some feedback and improvement suggestions for future conferences:
The conference was great! Maybe the best until now, but then, every year is the best conference. I did love Jyväskylä and Finland.
The (training) rooms were expecially good this year - plenty of power outlets, really big screen/projector, which makes it easier to follow along code examples.
The party was very good. My first Plone Party and I see now why it is really necessary to have this. That seems to be where you really get to know people, and even move forward on some issues. Also gave good insight into how the community functions.
Videos to Watch
Over 70 talks included insight to many topics from Plone frontend to backend, case studies, accessibility, AI, Python and more.
All presentation were recorded, so please subscribe to Plone CMS in YouTube to stay up to date with video releases!
Keynotes included:
- State of Plone - Plone 6.2 and Plone 7 by Timo Stollenwerk
- Human Perspectives in Cybersecurity: How Mental State and Social Interactions Can Affect Cybersecurity Posture by Naomi Woods and Hanna Paananen
- Muuttolintujen Kevät - Automatic Bird Sound Classifier by Patrik Lauha
Check Timo's keynote:
Here are some selected talks from the collection.
Plone and Plone Community
- From Legacy Systems to a Scalable, Accessible Platform: A Case Study
- Designing with Plone 6: The Page Builder Experiment
- State of the Plone REST API
- Ajaxify Plone: Building a Single Page Application in Classic UI
- Seven: A Retrospective into the Future
- Would You Manage Nuclear Emergencies With Plone?
- Growing Plone: What Other Communities Do That Works
- Luna: A Next-Generation Volto & Plone Distribution for Building Consumer Websites (Website Builder)
- Spreading the Word of Plone in South Africa
Accessibility and Theming
- From Quick Wins to Advanced ARIA Patterns - Making React & Volto UI Components Accessible
- CSI: Contrast Standards Investigation - Entry Exam
- Make Theming Fun Again
- Theming Plone Seven
AI
- AI and the future of CMS: What it means for open source CMS and their users
- How can AI be used in Content Management Systems?
- AI-Driven Documentation Workflows for Plone & Volto
- Experiences with AI in Software Projects
- From .pot to Perfect: Standards-Driven AI that Gets Plone/Volto UI Translations Right
Python and Software Development
Friday 17th was dedicated to PyCon Finland. Here are some highlights from the talk selection:
- Living Software for a Living World
- Building RAG AI Applications with MariaDB Vector and Python
- Epic Evolution of Typing in Python: How We Get Here and Where Are We Going?
- I Wish You Were Fun
- Shiny for Python: Reactive Web Apps Made Simple
- Using Python with Satellites, Lessons from a Staff Engineer
- Why as Developer I Am Blind to Bugs
- DsPy the Declarative Programming in the Era of AI
- Scoring Big Air: Building a Scoring System for Red Bull King of the Air
And many, many more!
The idea of combining PyCon Finland and Plone Conf was super! I wouldn't have heard all these interesting Core Python talks otherwise. Also quite a number of new people met there and some of them got some interest in Plone also.
Lovely Photos
Lovely photos of lovely people. And bridges. We had a fun photo competition during the event and the most votes went to Jeremy H. for the beautiful reflective lake image.
Check out all the glorious Photo Competition pictures!
Sprinting and developing
Plone Conference sprint was another success, with focus on Plone 7 and community discussions.
Looking for the Next Plone Event?
Many sprints next year, starting already on January in Stellenbosch, South Africa!
The next Plone Conference 2026 will be held in Maastricht, Netherlands on September 21-28, 2026!
See you there!
I already miss the Plone conf and all the People there.♥️