This document summarizes the progress of the collective.cover content management tool over the past year. Key developments include over 1000 commits and 26 contributors, with the software being translated into 8 languages. More companies such as Enfold, TV1 and Deserto began supporting it. The user interface and code quality improved with better testing. More websites began using collective.cover, including cartacapital.com.br and redebrasilatual.com.br. Plans are in place to further improve the tool for Plone 5 and add additional features in the upcoming year.

1. collective.cover
oneyear later

2. AndréNogueira
@agnogueira
Co-founder of Simples Consultoria, a
Brazilian consulting company specialized
on content and knowledge management,
is responsible for the creative work and
managing projects. Expert in the use of
CMS, design, usability, accessibility and
web standards. Organizer and speaker
for various events related to the Plone
Content Management and Enterprise
Portals.

3. Hector Velarde
@hvelarde
Héctor is an electronics engineer turned
into improvised project manager,
quality assurance promoter and
community cheerleader. Spent one
year in rehab recovering from a
frustrating experience with proprietary
software growing lettuce and
tomatoes in the middle of Mexico
City. He currently works as OSS
Curator at Simples Consultoria and
wastes a lot of time tweeting about
things that nobody cares.

4. Content Management specialists
Our main costumers are content centric portals like:
media, intranet, government,
universities, ONGs

5. What iscollective.cover?

6. For those who do not know
what collective.cover is:
A sane, working, editor-friendly way
of creating front pages and other
composite pages. Working now, for
mere mortals. (Paul Roeland)

7. Last year we introduced
collective.cover to Plone's
Comunity in Arnhem...

8. “collective.cover room was full
indeed, I don't think that the
organizers thought that so many will
come to this talk #ploneconf”
ichimdav @pixl_dave 11 Oct

9. First impressions
were very good

10. collective.cover looks
promising. Everyone is
watching - the silence in the
room kill my ears :-)
Andrew Mleczko @amleczko 11 Oct
"it is a cool and reliable tool"
CodeSyntax

11. even
unexpected...

12. “collective.cover made a big
step forward #plone –
cheers”
@MacYET

13. In oneyear...

14. 1060 Commits
Up +645 (155%) from previous 12 months

15. 26 Contributors
Up +9 (52%) from previous 12 months

16. Translated into
8 languages
de, es, fi, fr, it, no, pt_BR, zh_CN

17. More companies
started supporting it:
Enfold, TV1, Deserto

18. People even started
discussing if it should
be in Plone's core
(Please don't do that)

19. We got a Demo video
(Thanks @mizodiel)

20. A mad man named
collective.cover for
Plone Awards
(Please don't vote on it)

21. Theresult isthat now
wehave:

22. Better UI
Better Code
More tests

23. More sites start using Cover
cartacapital.com.br
redebrasilatual.com.br
cleanclothes.org
brasil.gov.br
...

24. Demo!

25. Move content among tiles
Drag and drop to order fields
New grid
Plone 5 ready
Semantic and HTML5
More contributors and more sites using it
Plans for next year

26. Thanks!
Photos: Alfred Eisenstaedt, Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Henri Cartier Bresson
André Nogueira
andre@simplesconsultoria.com.br
@agnogueira
Héctor Velarde
hector@simplesconsultoria.com.br
@hvelarde