Top Ten Ways
to Become Involved
in the
Plone Community
Darci Hanning
Technology Development Consultant
Oregon State Library
Salem, OR

Introduction
► Became involved in Plone two years ago
► Currently a non-developer
Integrator / Customizer
► My involvement to date:
2006 Conference Presenter
Two sprints
Documentation Team
Local user group co-founder

Not going to talk about…

10. Blog about Plone
► How you use Plone
► What you like about it
► How it compares to
other CMS’s
► Promote improvements
► Share ideas
► Jon Stahl’s Blog
► http://planet.plone.org/

9. Contribute a Theme
► “You can always spot a
Plone site…”
► CSS, plenty of tutorials
and examples at
plone.org

8. “Adopt” a Product
► Assist the developer:
Verify bugs and bug
fixes
Write documentation
Test upcoming releases
► Become the Product
Owner
Manage issues and
releases

7. Marketing
► Advertise how you use Plone
plone.net: join and submit
del.icio.us: tag with “plone-site”
► Marketing Group
plone.net site
organizers
Currently
re-organizing
Gerry Kirk’s blog

6. Online Participation
► Numerous mailing lists
General (plone-users)
Install, setup, upgrade
More…
► IRC
#plone on
irc.freenode.org
Via plone.org website

5. Local User Groups
► Groups in cities around
the world
► Not in yours? Start
one!
Presentations
Socializing
Virtual
Announce it!
User group leaders’
mailing list

4. Sprints
►A chance for developers to
focus on specific areas or
features
► But not just for
developers!*
► Can’t attend? Sponsor one!
► Help organize one!
► Host one!
* Virtual documentation sprint (2/2006)
and Documentation Sprint at Google
(6/2007)

3. Beta/RC Releases
► Download and play!
► Report Bugs ;-)
► Test Migrating Sites
► Start Identifying
Documentation Needs

2. Documentation
► Use it! Comment on it! Write it!
► Join the Documentation Team
► plone-docs mailing list
► Documentation issue tracker

1. Report Bugs
► “Feedback” to developers
► Not sure if it’s a bug? Report it anyways!
How:
► Join plone.org
► Visit: https://dev.plone.org/plone/
► Detailed information! Tracebacks!
► Select an area or just use “unknown”