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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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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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/documentation
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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 • Yale University
• Rice University • Duke University
• Penn State University • Columbia University
• Utah State University
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eduCommons
Plone-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 • Ireland
• Albuquerque (cabq.gov) • New Zealand
• Newport News (nngov.com) • 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 photos Plone/PIL auto-resizes photos
to WebDAV folder
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4. Rich text editor
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Kupu - rich text editor
• Auto-generates
thumbnails
• Caption images
• Cleans up crufty
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.pdf
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Comparing CMS security
CMS Vulnerabilities
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10
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Plone Drupal Joomla
# of CVE entries
http://plone.org/about/security/overview/security-overview-of-plone/
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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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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 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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Questions?
natea (at) jazkarta (dot) com
www.jazkarta.com
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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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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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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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