Built with Plone and maintained by a team of over 120 people -- journalists, developers, designers and integrators -- Brasil.gov.br is the main hub for the EGov initiative.

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Brasil.gov.br:
Building a digital nation with Plone
Érico Andrei - Simples Consultoria

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Strategy
“Be the most complete platform
for the Brazilian state digital presence”

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Strategy
“I joked with Franklin Martins (Minister of
communications) in the launching day. I said to him we
could say this is the Brazilian Google. In here (portal), our
citizens will find informations about everything we do,
every cent we expend”
Lula, Brazil’s President

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
A few numbers
•3 languages
•12 sections
•4 target groups
•11 mini-sites
•15Gb of content

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
more numbers
•~600 government services
•4 server environments
•20 servers
•95 new Python packages

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Team
•Planning
•Scope
•IA
•Design
•Development
•Content editing
•Management

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Team
Over 120 professionals
Secom
TV1
Serpro
Contractors

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Technology

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
The BIGGEST challenge

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Ok, seriously now
Lack of Plone expertise
+
A motivated and very competent team
+
XGH
=

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
After launch ...

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Things we learned
•The team lacked some professional skills
•Plone is a Content Management System
•Our hosting environment had it’s rules
•XGH no more!

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
What we needed
•A senior management
•Senior developers
•Some interface “wizards”
•And a new process

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Plone to the people
•Leveling the team with formal training
•Mentoring
•And tons of pair-programing

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Processes
•We needed to adapt to Serpro way of working
•New projects needed to be organized
•Integrate, integrate, integrate
•Refactor, refactor, refactor

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Choosing the right tools
•Moving to Git
•Our own paster templates
•Kanban + Jira + Confluence

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Things we contributed to
ATGoogleVideo
ContentPanels
CMFPublicator
ThemeSwitcher
ZopeSkel
archetypes.languagebugfix
sc.dev.core
sc.paster.*
sc.social.viewcounter
tv1.app.*

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
And now ...

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Enviroment improvements

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Buildout

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Package management
•zest.releaser
•Plone Software
Center
•PyPi Mirror

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Continuos integration

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Performance tests
•FunkLoad

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Using the proper tools

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
And mostly, the looks

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Modular, manageable
•Over 200 different tiles
•An gigantic number of internal views
•Editors compose the front page
•Accessibility and Usability are essential
•8 front end developers

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
with a little spice...
•We have well defined positions -- IA, Design,
Implementation
•Our front end team has different backgrounds
•Content editors are not always tech-friendly
•And we learned the lesson: Create once, try to
use anywhere

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
In a few topics

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Brasil.gov.br
•Two different customers
•A service aggregator and news portal
•Lack of Plone professionals -- so we trained the
team we had available

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Questions?

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Building a Digital Nation With Plone
Thank you
Érico Andrei
erico@simplesconsultoria.com.br
twitter: @ericof
irc: ericof
plone.org: erico_andrei