Plone is a popular open source content management system (CMS). This talk gives an intro to Plone and what makes it unique.

1. 10 Things You Probably
Don't Know about Plone
Nate Aune, Jazkarta, Inc.
http://www.jazkarta.com
Software Freedom Day
9/20/2008
www.jazkarta.com 888-756-6348
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2. What is a CMS?
• supports collaborative production and
maintenance of web sites
• it enables division of labor
• it provides tools for authoring content
• it enables doing things systematically
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3. 1. Easy to get started
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4. Easy to install
• Cross-platform installers
• Point-n-click install
• No dependencies
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5. Books and online docs
plone.org/documentation
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6. 2.Versatile
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7. Solves many use cases
• Public facing websites
• Intranets / extranets
• Group collaboration sites
• 1358 sites listed at plone.net/sites
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8. Education
• Harvard University • Yale University
• Rice University • Duke University
• Penn State University • Columbia University
• Utah State University
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9. eduCommons
Plone-based courseware solution
http://www.educommons.org
http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons
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11. Enterprise
• Novell.com
• Akamai.com
• DiscoverMagazine.com
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15. Non-profit
• Oxfam America / Oxfam UK / Oxfam Canada
• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Amnesty International (amnesty.ch)
• Free Software Foundation (fsf.org)
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18. Government
• City of Berne • Ireland
• Albuquerque (cabq.gov) • New Zealand
• Newport News (nngov.com) • Brazil
plonegov.org
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21. 3. Drag-n-drop import
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22. Mount Plone via WebDAV
WebDAV mounted Plone folder Drag-n-drop to Plone
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23. ex: Drag-n-drop photos
Drag-n-drop photos Plone/PIL auto-resizes photos
to WebDAV folder
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24. 4. Rich text editor
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25. Kupu - rich text editor
• Auto-generates
thumbnails
• Caption images
• Cleans up crufty
Word HTML
• Creates clean XHTML
• Full-screen mode
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26. 5. Ajax enhanced editing
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27. Just click and edit
• Any field can be made one-click editable
• Improves user experience
• Only load page elements that need refresh
Kinetic Style Sheets (KSS)
www.kssproject.org
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28. 6. Live Search
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29. Search results as you type
• Similar to Google Suggest
• Search results appear instantly
• Faster and more effective
http://plone.org/products/plone/features/2.1/livesearch
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30. 7. No broken links
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31. Link checker
• Links get UIDs
• Move images/pages
• Links don't break
• Warning upon
deletion
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32. 8. Security
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33. Most vulnerabilities
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/iss/xforce/midyearreport/xforce-midyear-report-2008.pdf
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34. Comparing CMS security
CMS Vulnerabilities
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10
0
Plone Drupal Joomla
# of CVE entries
http://plone.org/about/security/overview/security-overview-of-plone/
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35. Comparing stack security
Various components of the stack
1500
1125
750
375
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Zope Python Perl MySQL PHP
# of CVE entries
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36. Similar to Unix security model
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37. 9. Authentication
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38. Pluggable Authentication
• PlonePAS - Pluggable Authentication Service
• OpenID
• LDAP / Active Directory
• Apache
• RDBMS
• Salesforce
• Gmail
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39. 10. Community
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40. Collaborating on and offline
Online Offline
• IRC channel : #plone • 12 sprints in 2007
• 54 Mailing lists on gmane.org • 6 annual conferences
• Twitter: @plone • 2 symposiums in 2008
• LinkedIn Group • 25 User groups
in 11 countries
• Ploneability events
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41. Questions?
natea (at) jazkarta (dot) com
www.jazkarta.com
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42. More info about Plone
• plone.org (official site of Plone)
• plone.net (vendors, case studies)
• plonebook.info (free eBook)
• plone.tv (screencasts, podcasts)
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43. Join the Boston Plone
User Group!
NEXT MEETING:
Thursday, Sept. 25 @ 7pm
Betahouse, 13 Magazine St. #2 (Central Sq)
http://plone.meetup.com/1/
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44. Photo credits
1. http://flickr.com/photos/trommetter/2146876303/
2. http://flickr.com/photos/tochis/2444413721/
3. http://flickr.com/photos/topherous/187681769/
4. http://flickr.com/photos/levitateme/195356129/
5. http://flickr.com/photos/boeke/508984859/
6. http://flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/1262605918/
7. http://flickr.com/photos/paulthewineguy/2528013768/
8. http://flickr.com/photos/ibcbulk/256435870/
9. http://flickr.com/photos/rattodisabina/2460905893/
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