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- Careers in Open source and Plone Dylan Jay, Technical Solutions Manager PretaWeb, Australia
- Four kinds of Open Source
- Community Open Source e.g. Plone, Apache, Python, Linux
- Professional Support Network, Sponsorship
- Solo Projects
- Strategic Open Source e.g. IBM Eclipse
- Indirect
- Vender Open Source e.g. RedHat
- Freemium, subscription, support
- Careers in Open Source
- Do Side projects
- Be Employed by an OSS Company
- Start an OSS Professional Services Company
- Start an OSS Community/Company
- Start a Startup
- Choosing Open Source
- Security
- Open Standards
- Lower Risk
- Versatile
- Lower total cost of ownership
- Why I'm a Plone Consultant
- supports collaborative production and maintenance of web sites
- it enables division of labour
- it provides tools for authoring content
- it enables doing things systematically
- How modern sites are built
- #1 Start with a clean sheet
- Rails, Django, PHP, .net, J2EE, static HTML
- But you get tools to help you go fast
- #2 Start with everything out of the box
- Customise and Theme
- Plone, Drupal, Joomla, SharePoint
- You still get the tools to help you go fast
- Free $1 M + Enterprise -Wordpress -Goodbarry -SharePoint -Red Dot -Community Manager -Vignette -Ektron -Drupal -Joomla -Sitecore -Alfresco -Kentico -Documentum -Interwoven Small Business Open Community - Plone Plone Positioning
- Community Open Source Bus number “ The minimum number of people or organisations that if run over by a bus, the project is in jeopardy”
- Cool Things for developers
- Make any content buyable/shippable PloneGetPaid.org
- Make any Content into Newsletters plone.org/products/dancing
- Make any Content Mappable
- Make Content from UML
- 11 Things You Probably Don't Know about Plone
- 1. Easy to get started
- Easy to install
- Cross-platform installers
- Point-n-click install
- No dependencies
- Books and online docs plone.org/documentation
- 2. Versatile
- Solves many use cases
- Public facing websites
- Intranets / extranets
- Group collaboration sites
- 1358 sites listed at plone.net/sites alone
- Education
- Harvard University
- Rice University
- Penn State University
- Utah State University
- Yale University
- Duke University
- Columbia University
- eduCommons
- Plone-based courseware solution
- http://www.educommons.org
- http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons
- Enterprise
- Novell.com
- Akamai.com
- DiscoverMagazine.com
- Non-profit
- Oxfam America / Oxfam UK / Oxfam Canada
- Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Amnesty International (amnesty.ch)
- Free Software Foundation (fsf.org)
- Government
- City of Berne
- Albuquerque (cabq.gov)
- Newport News (nngov.com)
- Ireland
- New Zealand
- Brazil
- 3. Drag-n-drop import
- Mount Plone via WebDAV WebDAV mounted Plone folder Drag-n-drop to Plone
- ex: Drag-n-drop photos Drag-n-drop photos to WebDAV folder Plone/PIL auto-resizes photos
- Explorer Integration
- Instant Indexing
- 4. Rich text editor
- Kupu - rich text editor
- Auto-generates thumbnails
- Caption images
- Cleans up poor Word HTML
- Creates clean XHTML
- Full-screen mode
- 5. Ajax enhanced editing
- Just click and edit
- Any field can be made one-click editable
- Improves user experience
- Only load page elements that need refresh
- 6. Live Search
- Search results as you type
- Similar to Google Suggest
- Search results appear instantly
- Faster and more effective
- 7. No broken links
- Link checker
- Links get UIDs
- Move images/pages
- Links don't break
- Warning upon deletion
- 8. Security
- Most vulnerabilities http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/iss/xforce/midyearreport/xforce-midyear-report-2008.pdf
- Comparing CMS security http://plone.org/about/security/overview/security-overview-of-plone/
- Comparing stack security
- Similar to Unix security model
- 9. Authentication
- Pluggable Authentication
- PlonePAS - Pluggable Authentication Service
- OpenID
- LDAP / Active Directory
- Apache
- RDBMS
- Salesforce
- Gmail
- 10. Community
- How Plone is developed?
- First released 2001
- 219 core developers and counting
- Sprints worldwide
- Bug days fortnightly
- In top 2% of OSS*
- Unit tested code
- Collaborating on and offline
- Online
- 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
- 11. Delegation
- Folders can be shared Collaborating on and offline
- Customise Workflow
- Questions?
- More info about Plone
- plone.org (official site of Plone)
- plone.net (vendors, case studies)
- plonebook.info (free eBook)
- plone.tv (screencasts, podcasts)
- Flickr credits
- trommetter/2146876303 tochis/2444413721
- topherous/187681769 levitateme/195356129
- boeke/508984859 bionicteaching/1262605918
- paulthewineguy/2528013768 ibcbulk/256435870
- rattodisabina/2460905893 43103561@N00/463192567
- marioamati/263306292 knottyy/2905238025
- paulindigo/1828962215
- 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
- About PretaWeb
- Established 2004
- Plone Solutions & Support
- Developing a local network of Plone expertise.
- Current clients
- Commission of Children
- Women’s Refuge Resource Centre
- Innovation Exchange Network
- Safe Communities Foundation NZ
- NSW Greens
- Primary English Teacher’s Association
- O’Brien Glass Industries
- Int. Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circ.
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