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Got Plone? Now what?

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Introductions Name

Organization

Do you have a Plone site?

Since when?

What brought you here today?

Final Survey No public Plone events in

past two years+ in Seattle Are you interested in future

activities and events about Plone?

What would you like to see?

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YOU DO NOT HAVE A PLONE S ITE YET

YOU ARE READY TO REBU ILD YOUR S ITE AND ARE WONDER ING WHAT PL ATFORM TO CHOOSE

Why Plone?

• Word-of-mouth disadvantage

• No detailed side-by-side comparisons, but please see:Idealware’s Consumers Guide to Content Management Systems for Nonprofits

(google: idealware cms report)

• Consensus: choose a firm first, go with the system they know best or recommend

Important aspects:

• Security

• Active ecosystem

• Capabilities

• Governance

Why Plone?

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• CIA, FBI, governments, universities

• Intrinsic in the architecture

• Best security track record of any major CMS

• Frequency of security updates (think: Windows)

• Plone: 1-2 per year

• Other common platforms: about every 2 weeks

• Likelihood of a security update breaking something on the site

Security

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Active Ecosystem

• More choice in providers

• More add-ons

• More documentation

• More google

• More sites

• More clients

See https://www.openhub.net/p/plone

Active Ecosystem

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One slide could never capture the full range of features of any CMS. Here are just a few areas in which Plone stands apart, without any add-ons:

• Accessibility (US Section 508, WCAG - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)

• Essential for public agencies

• Over 40 languages: Internationalization, Localization, multi-language content support

• No admin screen

• Enterprise-oriented features: workflow, user/groups, roles & permissions, solid DB

Capabilities

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• Non-profit Plone Foundation (since 2004)

• Safeguards trademarks

• Conduit for support of community events

• No private/corporate ownership

• Open Source without private ownership: no secret backdoor deals with NSA

• Trustworthy for many governments

Downsides:

• (almost) no marketing

• No central command & control

Governance

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Prior to 2011, (at least) three major Plone providers in Seattle:

• GroundWire (formerly ONE/NorthWest)

• NPower

• Web Collective

Hundreds of organizations on Plone sites in the region, mostly environmental, social, non-profits, mostly local.

End of 2011: Web Collective closes. Most Plone clients hosted by Soliton Consulting.

2012: GroundWire closes (.org). All 110 Plone clients transferred in bulk to third party.

End of 2012: NPower merges with 501 Commons

Vacuum?

But: most individual Plone professionals are still locally active.

State of Plone in the PNW

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Plone 5!

• A lot of work happening• Much excitement

Demo

The Future of Plone

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