10 Things You ProbablyDon't Know about Plone

Firstname LastnameCompany

11/07/2008World Plone Day

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• supports collaborative production and maintenance of web sites

• it enables division of labor

• it provides tools for authoring content

• it enables doing things systematically

What is a CMS?

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1. Easy to get started

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Easy to install

• Cross-platform installers

• Point-n-click install

• No dependencies

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Books and online docs

plone.org/documentation5

2. Versatile

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Solves many use cases

• Public facing websites

• Intranets / extranets

• Group collaboration sites

• 1358 sites listed at plone.net/sites

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Education

• Harvard University

• Rice University

• Penn State University

• Utah State University

• Yale University

• Duke University

• Columbia University

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eduCommonsPlone-based courseware solution

http://www.educommons.org

http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons

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Enterprise

• Novell.com

• Akamai.com

• DiscoverMagazine.com

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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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Government

• City of Berne

• Albuquerque (cabq.gov)

• Newport News (nngov.com)

• Ireland

• New Zealand

• Brazil

plonegov.org

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3. Drag-n-drop import

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Mount Plone via WebDAV

WebDAV mounted Plone folder Drag-n-drop to Plone

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ex: Drag-n-drop photos

Drag-n-drop photosto WebDAV folder

Plone/PIL auto-resizes photos

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4. Rich text editor

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Kupu - rich text editor

• Auto-generates thumbnails

• Caption images

• Cleans up poor Word HTML

• Creates clean XHTML

• Full-screen mode

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5. Ajax enhanced editing

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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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6. Live Search

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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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7. No broken links

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Link checker

• Links get UIDs

• Move images/pages

• Links don't break

• Warning upon deletion

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8. Security

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Most vulnerabilities

http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/iss/xforce/midyearreport/xforce-midyear-report-2008.pdf33

Comparing CMS security

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Plone Drupal Joomla

CMS Vulnerabilities

# of CVE entries

http://plone.org/about/security/overview/security-overview-of-plone/

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Comparing stack security

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Zope Python Perl MySQL PHP

Various components of the stack

# of CVE entries

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Similar to Unix security model

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9. Authentication

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Pluggable Authentication

• PlonePAS - Pluggable Authentication Service

• OpenID

• LDAP / Active Directory

• Apache

• RDBMS

• Salesforce

• Gmail

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10. Community

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Collaborating on and offlineOnline

• IRC channel : #plone

• 54 Mailing lists on gmane.org

• Twitter: @plone

• LinkedIn Group

Offline

• 12 sprints in 2007

• 6 annual conferences

• 2 symposiums in 2008

• 25 User groups in 11 countries

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Questions?

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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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Photo credits1. 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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Legal

• This presentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

• The Plone logo and the Plone name are registered trademarks of the Plone Foundation.

• plone.org/foundation

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