What is Plone?
World Plone Day
November 7, 2008
Name, Place
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Open source CMS
GPL license
same license that Linux uses
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Owned & Protected
by the Plone Foundation
(similar to the Apache Foundation)
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Standards compliant
100% XHTML and CSS standards-compliant
Based on open standards
OpenID for authentication
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Accessibility compliant
W3C
WAI-AA
US Section 508
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Secure
CMS Vulnerabilities
40
30
20
10
0
Plone Drupal Joomla
# of CVE entries
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Security in the stack
Various components of the stack
1500
1125
750
375
0
Zope Python Perl MySQL PHP
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International
translated into over 50 languages
support for right-to-left languages
Chinese, Russian, Arabic
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Stable & Growing
been around for 5 years
over 1 million downloads and counting
active and healthy community
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Documentation & Support
hundreds of howtos / tutorials on plone.org
6 published books about Plone
online screencasts at plone.tv
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Published Books
plone.org/documentation
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Who is using Plone? #3
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