Software freedom and
Plone
Aaron VanDerlip, Jazkarta.com
Software Freedom Day
September 20, 2008
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What is Plone
• content management system
• flexible framework - Zope and Python
• open source (GPL V2) and standards
compliant
• large developer community
• IP and trademark overseen by foundation
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Plone and SFD
• What does Plone have to do with Software
Freedom Day?
• Currently runs fsf.org
• Plone and the community support the
ideals of software freedom
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Software Freedom Day
Vision
“Our vision is to empower all people to
freely connect, create and share in a digital
world that is participatory, transparent, and
sustainable.”
http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/about
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Language support
• There is a big world out there
• It does not speak English necessarily
• Work to allow your users to use their own
language
• This is a core value of the Plone community
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• The Plone interface has more than 35
translations
• Plone was designed from the ground up for
multilingual content management. It handles
Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left
languages such as Arabic and Hebrew
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Accessibility matters
• There is a big world out there
• It may not be like you
• Work to support accessibility for your users
• This is a core value of the Plone community
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• Plone meets or exceeds U.S. Government
Section 508 and W3C's WAI-AA standards for
sight and motor impaired individuals.
• All Javascript usage comes with fallback
modes that work in any web browser
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Community
Plone has one of the largest open-source
teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all
project teams on Ohloh, which lists most of
the major open source projects in the world.
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Community
• Over two hundred developers have
committed to the core
• The nonprofit, community-governed Plone
Foundation owns and protects all intellectual
property and trademarks. Plone also has
legal backing from the Software Freedom
Law Center.
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And we care
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Plonistas come together
for face time
• Annual conference - Oct. ‘07 in Naples, Italy
• Plone Symposiums, two in the US, many
more world wide.
• Sprints in Norway, Austria, San Francisco,
New York, Holland, Vancouver, etc.
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Snow Sprint
Egg, Austria Jan.27-Feb. 4
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Calendaring Sprint
Software Freedom Burning Man HQ, San Francisco (Dec. 05)
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Plone conference
Vienna Austria
(Sept. 05)
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Castle Sprint, Austria
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Plone conference 2004
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As Developers we..
• build tools for us, they face inward
• build tools for society, they face
outward
• Outward facing tools bring people into our
community.
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Thanks!
aaron (at) jazkarta.com
www.jazkarta.com
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