The Plone Intranet consortium is facing challenges in the CMS market due to commoditization, necessitating a transformation in collaboration processes and investment in high-quality products. The proposal includes a roadmap for developing a new business model prioritizing user experience and operational efficiency, leveraging community support for sustainable development. The initiative emphasizes open-source principles and aims to reestablish Plone's relevance through innovative features across multiple phases.

1. Plone Intranet Consortium
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
Guido Stevens
guido.stevens@cosent.nl
github.com/ploneintranet/ploneintranet.suite

2. Plone is in a rough spot

3. CMS market commoditized

4. Pop quiz!
● community ● backend code ● user experience

5. “Good enough” is not good enough
anymore

6. Consultant-ware is bad business
● High initial cost
● Low quality user
experience
● Crappy sales proposition
● Slow delivery
● High maintenance cost
● Low community synergy

7. Plone > € 25 million /year

8. Great stack && awesome
community

9. Evolve or Die

10. Evolve or Die
Web 1.0 →
● publish + read
● content management
● document tree
● place-centric
● global state
● top-down control
Plone Core
Web 2.0 →
● read/write
● social networking
● activity stream
● time-centric
● personal perspectives
● bottom-up sharing
Plone Social
Web 3.0
● big data
● semantic web
● digital workplace
● meaning-centric
● context adaptive
● machine learning
__future__

11. cosent.nl/roadmap

12. Plone Social

13. Serious competition

14. We must upgrade and transform
our collaboration processes

15. The “spare time” model is broken

16. We need a new model

17. Invest in high-quality out-of-the-box
product baseline
● Low purchase cost
● Very high quality
● Immediate sales appeal
● Fast delivery
● Shared maintenance
● New community ethos
… and then sell client services

18. Sustained commitment

19. Design first

20. Roadmap-driven Scrum
development

21. Legitimate leadership serves the
community

22. Consortium board funds roadmap
Per company:
● € 1000 per month
● + 1 developer day per week
Total phase one (3 months):
● € 24.000 cash
design
● 80 man-days development
sprint every Wednesday

23. 100% open source

24. Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
● These are add-ons
● Plone 5 compatible
● 100% open source
● Welcome to join the
consortium
● NOT a core fork
● Will port to Mockup
● NOT a €€€ conspiracy
● But requires money, time,
process commitment

25. We are doing amazing stuff!

26. Patternslib-based user interface

27. UX sells

28. Intranet roadmap
Phase one
● Activity streams
● Team spaces
● Dashboards
● Document structures /
wiki
Phase two
● Calendaring
● Search
● News hub
● Notification center

29. New business model for open
source
1. Dream a vision
2. Combine investment
3. Design first!
4. Develop & release
3.1 Win customers

30. We are Plone. We can do anything!

31. United we stand

32. Thank you!
guido.stevens@cosent.nl
github.com / ploneintranet / ploneintranet.suite
Friday: open space
Weekend: sprint