This is a talk I gave at Plone Open Garden 2014 on the Plone Intranet project. This is a collaborative project to develop an enhance platform for intranets on top of Plone
4. Intranet Open Space
• Small, but enthusiastic Open Space session
at Plone Conference 2013 in Brasilia
• Discussing common requirements for
Intranets on Plone
6. Plone Intranet Summit
• As soon as possible after Plone Conference
• Small number of companies who were at
Open Space in Brasilia (or wanted to be)
and who were nearby
• Hosted by Netsight at Gatwick Airport, UK
• Brainstorming common functionality
7. Plone Conference
Brasilia
Oct 2013 Oct 2014
Plone Conference
Bristol
Intranet Summit
(UK)
Oct 2013
Netsight
Cosent
Four Digits
Syslab
Starzel
4Teamwork
11. Plone Conference
Brasilia
Oct 2013 Oct 2014
Plone Conference
Bristol
Intranet Summit
(UK)
Oct 2013
Plone Intranet
Hangouts
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
12. Plone Conference
Brasilia
Oct 2013 Oct 2014
Plone Conference
Bristol
Intranet Summit
(UK)
Oct 2013
Plone Intranet
Hangouts
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
David Glick
(collective.workspace)
Sean Upton
(collective.teamwork)
13. Workspaces
• Very common requirement
• Needs very good (understandable) UI
• Plone Sharing tab often gives users too
much rope to hang themselves
• Implications on performance
15. Plone Conference
Brasilia
Oct 2013 Oct 2014
Plone Conference
Bristol
Intranet Summit
(UK)
Oct 2013
Plone Intranet
Hangouts
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
David Glick
(collective.workspace)
Sean Upton
(collective.teamwork)
Workspaces Sprint (Bristol)
19. Plone Conference
Brasilia
Oct 2013 Oct 2014
Plone Conference
Bristol
Intranet Summit
(UK)
Oct 2013
Plone Intranet
Hangouts
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
David Glick
(collective.workspace)
Sean Upton
(collective.teamwork)
Workspaces Sprint (Bristol)
ploneintranet.* started on Github
20. Plone Conference
Brasilia
Oct 2013 Oct 2014
Plone Conference
Bristol
Intranet Summit
(UK)
Oct 2013
Plone Intranet
Hangouts
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
David Glick
(collective.workspace)
Systems of
Intent Published
by Guido Stevens
Sean Upton
(collective.teamwork)
Workspaces Sprint (Bristol)
ploneintranet.* started on Github
22. Plone Conference
Brasilia
Oct 2013 Oct 2014
Plone Conference
Bristol
Intranet Summit
(UK)
Oct 2013
Plone Intranet
Hangouts
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
David Glick
(collective.workspace)
Systems of
Intent Published
by Guido Stevens
Sean Upton
(collective.teamwork)
Workspaces Sprint (Bristol)
ploneintranet.* started on Github
Guido @ Netsight
Jan-Feb 2014
26. Good News!
Netsight received funding
from West of England
Growth Fund to research
social software in
enterprises
27. “Grant will be used to develop a new process
methodology that advances the state of the art
and improves the success rate of projects
which include the introduction of social
technologies (such as social media) in
organisations”
“Software-related activities of a routine nature
which do not involve scientific and/or
technological advances or resolution of
technological uncertainties can not to be
included in R&D”
28. Two Parallel Streams
Plone Intranet Software
Social Intranet Research
Plone Community
Netsight, Cosent, Four Digits, 4Teamwork, Starzel, Syslab, ?
Netsight + Cosent
29. Plone Conference
Brasilia
Oct 2013 Oct 2014
Plone Conference
Bristol
Intranet Summit
(UK)
Oct 2013
Plone Intranet
Hangouts
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
David Glick
(collective.workspace)
Systems of
Intent Published
by Guido Stevens
Sean Upton
(collective.teamwork)
Workspaces Sprint (Bristol)
ploneintranet.* started on Github
Guido @ Netsight
Jan-Feb 2014
PLOG 2014!
Apr 2014
30. Plone Conference
Brasilia
Oct 2013 Oct 2014
Plone Conference
Bristol
Intranet Summit
(UK)
Oct 2013
Plone Intranet
Hangouts
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
David Glick
(collective.workspace)
Systems of
Intent Published
by Guido Stevens
Sean Upton
(collective.teamwork)
Workspaces Sprint (Bristol)
ploneintranet.* started on Github
Guido @ Netsight
Jan-Feb 2014
PLOG 2014!
Apr 2014
Sprints @ Netsight
28th April - 2nd May
12th May - 26th May
32. Plone Conference
Brasilia
Oct 2013 Oct 2014
Plone Conference
Bristol
Intranet Summit
(UK)
Oct 2013
Plone Intranet
Hangouts
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
David Glick
(collective.workspace)
Systems of
Intent Published
by Guido Stevens
Sean Upton
(collective.teamwork)
Workspaces Sprint (Bristol)
ploneintranet.* started on Github
Guido @ Netsight
Jan-Feb 2014
PLOG 2014!
Apr 2014
Sprints @ Netsight
28th April - 2nd May
12th May - 26th May
ploneintranet.suite 0.9 release
Aug 2014
33. Plone Conference
Brasilia
Oct 2013 Oct 2014
Plone Conference
Bristol
Intranet Summit
(UK)
Oct 2013
Plone Intranet
Hangouts
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
David Glick
(collective.workspace)
Systems of
Intent Published
by Guido Stevens
Sean Upton
(collective.teamwork)
Workspaces Sprint (Bristol)
ploneintranet.* started on Github
Guido @ Netsight
Jan-Feb 2014
PLOG 2014!
Apr 2014
Sprints @ Netsight
28th April - 2nd May
12th May - 26th May
ploneintranet.suite 0.9 release
Aug 2014
ploneintranet.suite 1.0 release
34. Get Involved!
• Come talk to Guido, Ben, or myself
• We specifically want to talk about Tiles (see
recent thread on -devel)
• We want to talk about intranet use-cases
• We need client sites to test our research