The document discusses careers that can be pursued in open source software like Plone, including working for an open source company, starting a professional services company, or starting an open source community. It outlines some benefits of choosing Plone over other content management systems, such as security, open standards, and lower costs. The document also provides an overview of 11 things you may not know about Plone, including its ease of use, versatility across different use cases, and large developer community.

1. Careers in Open source and Plone Dylan Jay, Technical Solutions Manager PretaWeb, Australia

2. Four kinds of Open Source Community Open Source e.g. Plone, Apache, Python, Linux Professional Support Network, Sponsorship Solo Projects Strategic Open Source e.g. IBM Eclipse Indirect Vender Open Source e.g. RedHat Freemium, subscription, support

3. Careers in Open Source Do Side projects Be Employed by an OSS Company Start an OSS Professional Services Company Start an OSS Community/Company Start a Startup

4. Choosing Open Source Security Open Standards Lower Risk Versatile Lower total cost of ownership

5. Why I'm a Plone Consultant

6. supports collaborative production and maintenance of web sites it enables division of labour it provides tools for authoring content it enables doing things systematically What is a CMS?

7. How modern sites are built

8. #1 Start with a clean sheet Rails, Django, PHP, .net, J2EE, static HTML But you get tools to help you go fast

9. #2 Start with everything out of the box

10. Customise and Theme Plone, Drupal, Joomla, SharePoint You still get the tools to help you go fast

11. Free $1 M + Enterprise -Wordpress -Goodbarry -SharePoint -Red Dot -Community Manager -Vignette -Ektron -Drupal -Joomla -Sitecore -Alfresco -Kentico -Documentum -Interwoven Small Business Open Community - Plone Plone Positioning

13. Community Open Source Bus number “ The minimum number of people or organisations that if run over by a bus, the project is in jeopardy”

14. Cool Things for developers

15. Make any content buyable/shippable PloneGetPaid.org

16. Make any Content into Newsletters plone.org/products/dancing

17. Make any Content Mappable

18. Make Content from UML

19. 11 Things You Probably Don't Know about Plone

20. 1. Easy to get started

21. Easy to install Cross-platform installers Point-n-click install No dependencies

22. Books and online docs plone.org/documentation

23. 2. Versatile

24. Solves many use cases Public facing websites Intranets / extranets Group collaboration sites 1358 sites listed at plone.net/sites alone

25. Education Harvard University Rice University Penn State University Utah State University Yale University Duke University Columbia University

26. eduCommons Plone-based courseware solution http://www.educommons.org http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons

28. Enterprise Novell.com Akamai.com DiscoverMagazine.com

32. Non-profit Oxfam America / Oxfam UK / Oxfam Canada Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Amnesty International (amnesty.ch) Free Software Foundation (fsf.org)

35. Government City of Berne Albuquerque (cabq.gov) Newport News (nngov.com) Ireland New Zealand Brazil plonegov.org

38. 3. Drag-n-drop import

39. Mount Plone via WebDAV WebDAV mounted Plone folder Drag-n-drop to Plone

40. ex: Drag-n-drop photos Drag-n-drop photos to WebDAV folder Plone/PIL auto-resizes photos

41. Explorer Integration

42. Instant Indexing

43. 4. Rich text editor

44. Kupu - rich text editor Auto-generates thumbnails Caption images Cleans up poor Word HTML Creates clean XHTML Full-screen mode

45. 5. Ajax enhanced editing

46. Just click and edit Any field can be made one-click editable Improves user experience Only load page elements that need refresh Kinetic Style Sheets (KSS) www.kssproject.org

47. 6. Live Search

48. Search results as you type Similar to Google Suggest Search results appear instantly Faster and more effective http://plone.org/products/plone/features/2.1/livesearch

49. 7. No broken links

50. Link checker Links get UIDs Move images/pages Links don't break Warning upon deletion

51. 8. Security

52. Most vulnerabilities http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/iss/xforce/midyearreport/xforce-midyear-report-2008.pdf

53. Comparing CMS security http://plone.org/about/security/overview/security-overview-of-plone/

54. Comparing stack security

55. Similar to Unix security model

56. 9. Authentication

57. Pluggable Authentication PlonePAS - Pluggable Authentication Service OpenID LDAP / Active Directory Apache RDBMS Salesforce Gmail

58. 10. Community

59. How Plone is developed? First released 2001 219 core developers and counting Sprints worldwide Bug days fortnightly In top 2% of OSS* Unit tested code Plone Collective Code Swarm

60. Collaborating on and offline Online IRC channel : #plone 54 Mailing lists on gmane.org Twitter: @plone LinkedIn Group Offline 12 sprints in 2007 6 annual conferences 2 symposiums in 2008 25 User groups in 11 countries

61. 11. Delegation

62. Folders can be shared Collaborating on and offline

63. Customise Workflow

64. Questions?

65. More info about Plone plone.org (official site of Plone) plone.net (vendors, case studies) plonebook.info (free eBook) plone.tv (screencasts, podcasts)

66. Flickr credits trommetter/2146876303 tochis/2444413721 topherous/187681769 levitateme/195356129 boeke/508984859 bionicteaching/1262605918 paulthewineguy/2528013768 ibcbulk/256435870 rattodisabina/2460905893 43103561@N00/463192567 marioamati/263306292 knottyy/2905238025 paulindigo/1828962215

67. Legal This presentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. The Plone logo and the Plone name are registered trademarks of the Plone Foundation. plone.org/foundation

68. About PretaWeb Established 2004 Plone Solutions & Support Developing a local network of Plone expertise. Current clients Commission of Children Women’s Refuge Resource Centre Innovation Exchange Network Safe Communities Foundation NZ NSW Greens Primary English Teacher’s Association O’Brien Glass Industries Int. Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circ.