Plone in the Public Sector: Business and Sustainability Models. The model of PloneGov

1. Plone in the Public Sector:
agile.open.connected
Business and Sustainability Models
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2. PloneGov as a Public bodies
business
model*
Gov
Plone SMBs
(Zea Partners
Community network & others)
✓ We promote collaboration, technology, business in
the public sector
✓ * We can provide a document describing the model in details
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3. PloneGov
A worldwide community
of the Public Sector,
aimed at sharing and
reusing Plone software
and Plone knowledge
among the member Public
Bodies
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4. History
PloneGov project was born in June
2007 by merging three Plone based
e-government initiatives focusing on
local and regional governments:
CommunesPlone.org (Belgium,
France), UdalPlone (Basque
country-Spain, France) and
PloneGov.ch (Switzerland).
• In 2007-2009 it won 4 European
prizes and for two times in a row
was a finalist in the European
eGovernment Awards
• Currently includes about 200
public bodies, in several
subcommunities on 4 continents
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5. Gov Italia
✓ The Italian national chapter of PloneGov (PGI for short)
✓ About 50 members
✓ Different public bodies and solutions: Universities, Health
Agencies, Regions, Provinces, Cities, Chambers of Commerce, ...
✓ PGI is very diverse, something like a scaled-down version of the
worldwide project.
✓ Smaller sub-communities within PGI (e.g. Plone for University &
Research aka Plone4UR)
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6. PloneGov Italia Events
RedTurtle supports PloneGov by
sponsoring and organizing events,
hosted by PGI members.
✓ National launch (Ferrara, 2008)
✓ Yearly National Event (Ferrara, 2009)
✓ World Plone Day
“healthcare” (Ferrara, 2010)
✓ Yearly National Event (Padua, 2010)
✓ Technical events (Modena, 2010)
✓ 2 Plone4UR days (Bologna & Naples
2010)
✓ World Plone Day (Bologna, 2011)
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7. The community
✓ One of the greatest values of
Plone
✓ International community
✓ Community made by:
• freelancer
• developers
• public sector
• companies
• universities
✓ Plone community is G-R-E-A-T!
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8. ZEA Partners
✓ A global network of companies
building open source solutions
✓ 20 partners, 2 italians
(RedTurtle is part of the board)
✓ ZEA contributed to the birth of
PloneGov by providing
technical assistance to the
founding members
✓ ZEA continues to engage
actively in the support of the
PloneGov initiative
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9. Plone, PloneGov and ZEA Partners - the big picture
A community A Free Software
of developers Technology
and users
A PUBLIC BODY
A NATIONAL NETWORK OF PUBLIC BODIES
Gov Italia
Gov
A GLOBAL NETWORK OF PUBLIC BODIES
Promotes and gives technical support
A GLOBAL NETWORK OF COMPANIES
A COMPANY
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10. Model 1 - “Institutional” reuse
a real case from an Association of Communes
Unione Reno Galliera Gov Italia
Online official board integrated with different
Resolutions management softwares
Communes of the Unione
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11. Model 2 - Horizontal infection (solutions)
a real case between identical Public Bodies
Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara Gov Italia
Portal and Intranet
8 other Chambers of Commerce Gov Italia
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12. Model 2 - Horizontal (modules)
An example (among many) - between two identical bodies
City of Modena Gov Italia
Monet.Modulistica
City of San Giovanni in Persiceto Gov Italia
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13. Model 3 - Cross / bidirectional reuse
a real case between two similar bodies
Province of Ferrara Gov Italia
Intranet / DMS / Resolutions /
Quality Management System
Official Register
City of Padova Gov Italia
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14. Model 4 - Bottom-up escalation
vertical reuse: hierarchical escalation
City of Modena Gov Italia
Youth Information portal
Emilia Romagna Region Gov Italia
GECO Federated Portal
National Level
(Agreement RER / ANCI / Ministry of Youth)
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15. Model 5 - On-demand development
borderline case: “on demand development” (offer in reuse)
Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara Gov Italia
Digital Archive and Search of criminal lawsuits files
State Prosecutor Office, Court of Ferrara
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16. Model 6 - Pooling brains and experiences
self-managed technical events
City of Modena, Emilia Romagna region Gov Italia
Workshop for the exchange of PloneGov solutions (November 2010)
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17. ‣ triggered by an
other individual Public Body
bodies PloneGov (e.g. Chamber of
reusable reusable
Commerce, Town,
solution solution local Agency...)
‣ propagating by “peer
Plone PMI, ZEA network to peer” infection
among other individual
REQUIREMENT organizations
PROTOTYPE VALIDATION ‣ particularly suitable for
products
SUPPORT TO REUSE ‣ may escalate to “top
down” model when
becoming epidemic
Reusing
and attracting the
bodies
“Pilot” body attention of an
Association of Public
Bodies
Sustainable reuse model in “bottom-up” version
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18. other ‣ triggered by involving
Public Body bodies PloneGov an Aggregate of Public
reusable reusable reusable Bodies
REQUIREMENT REQUIREMENT solution solution solution
‣ propagation “by
P. B. directive” and by “peer
to peer” infection
Assn. HARMONIZATION VALIDATION
‣ suited for products but
“Pilot” body Plone SMBs, particularly well-suited
ZEA Network for ad hoc projects
PROTOTYPE
‣ market target
potentially bigger
Public Bodies
Association SUPPORT TO REUSE
‣ human and
economical resource
Reusing pooling may be much
bodies easier
Sustainable reuse model in “top-down” version
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19. Results
✓ 50 members of PloneGov Italia
✓ More than half are Redturtle
customers and we are getting
new customers from PloneGov
✓ Some of the members of
PloneGov feel and act as Plone
community members: this means
that they understood the open
source model
✓ pypi packages “branded” and
sponsored by PloneGov Italia
(search PloneGov on pypi.python.org)
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20. Thank you. Grazie.

21. Questions ?
Stefano Marchetti
RedTurtle’s co-founder
and project manager
stefano@redturtle.it