2006 — Plone: Enterprise Level CMS - Free and OpenSource - Community Driven

As most of you have probably discovered, Microsoft finally updated Internet Explorer after about 5 years of using IE6. A lot of people are now using the updated version as their main browser. Most of the required tweaks to Plone to work well with IE7 were included in the Plone 2.1.3 and 2.5.1 releases, but a few issues remain.

Plone Conference Presentation Materials Now Online

— by David Siedband — last modified Nov 02, 2006 12:25 AM

Links to conference presentation downloads and info about more materials that will be online soon.

Plone Foundation Announces New Board

— by pupq — last modified Oct 30, 2006 07:58 AM

The Plone Foundation announces the results of their new Board of Directors for the 2006-2007 term.

Oxfam Canada launches Plone powered website

— by nateaune — last modified Oct 25, 2006 10:52 PM

Oxfam Canada and development partner Jazkarta announce the launch of the new Oxfam.ca Plone-powered website.

Plone Foundation Board Nominations Closed

— by Hanno Schulz — last modified Oct 21, 2006 04:11 PM

The nomination process has been open for the last week and has resulted in 15 valid nominations for this years Plone Foundation Board elections.

El Nuevo Diario uses Plone to cover Nicaraguan elections

— by Héctor Velarde — last modified Oct 19, 2006 04:01 AM

El Nuevo Diario, a main newspaper in Nicaragua, selected Plone for its special site to cover the upcoming presidential elections in that country.

Press Release: Plone Foundation Announces Plone Conference 2006

— by mrtopf — last modified Oct 19, 2006 12:47 AM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SUSE Linux installer for Plone 2.5.1 available

— by alecm — last modified Oct 15, 2006 06:39 PM

A note to those of you running Plone on SUSE Linux, the Plone 2.5.1 installer is now available.

Plone Foundation Board Nominations Open (Updated)

— by pupq — last modified Oct 13, 2006 12:11 AM

The Plone Foundations Board of directors is member-elected. Anyone can nominate themselves for Board membership, and the Foundation members vote on the Board.

Plone in Education: the Connexions project

— by Alex Limi — last modified Oct 10, 2006 02:38 AM

For those of you curious about Plone in the education space, here's a nice summary video about what the people at Rice University are doing with Plone.

Mac OS X (Intel and PPC) installers available

— by Alex Limi — last modified Oct 10, 2006 02:17 AM

Just a quick heads-up to those of you running Plone on Mac OS X that the installers have been updated to include Plone 2.5.1.

Plone celebrates its fifth year!

— by Alex Limi — last modified Oct 05, 2006 02:23 AM

Today marks exactly five years since the release of Plone 0.1, the very first Plone release.

Plone Security Advisory: Password Reset Tool

— by Alex Limi — last modified Sep 29, 2006 07:52 AM

A potential security vulnerability was discovered as part of the recent security audit done in preparation for the 2.5.1 release. Any site running Plone 2.5 should upgrade to the latest version of Password Reset Tool. Plone 2.1.x and 2.0.x are not affected.

Vote for Plone in the '06 Open Source CMS Awards (Updated)

— by Chris Calloway — last modified Sep 20, 2006 04:55 PM

Plone is a top five finalist in the Packt Publishing 2006 Open Source Content Management System Awards. And Plone needs your vote.

Plone interviews: Accessibility, LinuxWorld, NGOs

— by Alex Limi — last modified Sep 15, 2006 03:49 AM

Several interviews with influential Plonistas have surfaced recently, here are some resources for you to enjoy in preparation for the weekend.

Plone 2.5.1 and 2.1.4 released

— by Alex Limi — last modified Sep 12, 2006 11:45 PM

We have prepared two new releases of the 2.5.x and 2.1.x series with default policy improvements to counter the spam attacks that some Plone sites have been a victim of lately. This is a required upgrade for all Plone sites, please be a responsible administrator and update your sites as soon as possible.

Share Your Enterprise Plone Deployment Story… Win an iPod!

— by munwar — last modified Sep 12, 2006 11:45 PM

This is your chance to win an entry to the panel discussion on “Plone and Large Enterprises” at the 2006 Plone conference.

Plone helps UNC School of Medicine reduce costs of course materials

— by munwar — last modified Sep 12, 2006 08:39 AM

Read about how Plone won the battle against expensive commercial alternatives such as Vignette and Oracle Portal.

Recent web site slowness (Updated)

— by Alex Limi — last modified Sep 06, 2006 12:02 AM

The plone.org web site is currently being hit with multiple spam requests from various sources (on the level of a DDoS attack), and we're currently cleaning up the mischief.

NCDAE Webcast - Accessibility and the Open Source Content Management

— by cbel — last modified Aug 30, 2006 10:19 PM

NCDAE is please to offer a Webcast on this important topic in the hopes that it will shed light on accessibility efforts in this open source movement.