10 Things You Probably Don't Know about Plone

1. 10 Things You Probably Don't Know about Plone Firstname Lastname, Company World Plone Day

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

3. 1. Easy to get started

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

5. Books and online docs plone.org/documentation

6. 2. Versatile

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

8. Education • Harvard University • Rice University • Penn State University • Utah State University • Yale University • Duke University • Columbia University

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

11. Enterprise • Novell.com • Akamai.com • DiscoverMagazine.com

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

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

21. 3. Drag-n-drop import

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

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

24. 4. Rich text editor

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

26. 5. Ajax enhanced editing

27. 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

28. 6. Live Search

29. 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

30. 7. No broken links

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

32. 8. Security

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

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

35. Comparing stack security

36. Similar to Unix security model

37. 9. Authentication

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

39. 10. Community

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

41. Questions?

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

43. Photo credits • http://flickr.com/photos/trommetter/2146876303/ • http://flickr.com/photos/tochis/2444413721/ • http://flickr.com/photos/topherous/187681769/ • http://flickr.com/photos/levitateme/195356129/ • http://flickr.com/photos/boeke/508984859/ • http://flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/1262605918/ • http://flickr.com/photos/paulthewineguy/2528013768/ • http://flickr.com/photos/ibcbulk/256435870/ • http://flickr.com/photos/rattodisabina/2460905893/

44. 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