Plone Konferenz 2012

Scalable Plone agile.open.connected
from town-wise sites to region-wise
portals and Intranets Massimo Azzolini

Massimo Azzolini

CEO - project manager
RedTurtle - Ferrara - Italy

massimo@redturtle.it

@massimoazzolini

www.redturtle.it

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➡ WebPortals

➡ Intranets

➡ Social

➡ Consultancy

➡ Contents

➡ Network of companies

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what is this talk
about?!
This talk will illustrate an use case showing how its flexibility and modularity allowed
us to provide Plone solutions both for the little communes’ websites and for
highly available, load-balanced, complex multi-site, multi-skin portals,
that may include federated infrastructures of users.
Furthermore, on the Intranet side, we could deliver a Plone Intranet serving
several thousands of employees with SSO, a strong social flavour, groupware
features well matching the specific needs of the diverse organizational units, and all
the benefits and add-ons that Plone can provide.
RedTurtle’s technical partnership with PloneGov Italia is another demonstration
of Plone’s versatility.

Municipality of
Sant’Agostino

➡ Simple web site

‣ Events/News/Pages

‣ PortletPage/Custom Theme

‣ Social Media/Maps

➡ low trafﬁc

‣ from 1 up to 10/15 editors

‣ 100 visits/day (peaks at 1k)

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Architecture
Apache
➡ Plone

➡ Just one instance

‣ Events/News/Pages

‣ no pound

‣ no varnish

‣ plone.app.cache rocks!
➡ Light Plone, it’s extremely fast

add-ons
➡ Easier customization: portlets

‣ ContentWellPortlets/PortletPage

‣ ER Navigation portlet

‣ Portlet advanced static

‣ Collection portlet with
custom view

➡ Maps: collective.geo

➡ Online Forms: PloneFormGen

➡ Newsletter: Singing & Dancing

➡ (re)Organize contents: SmartLink

➡ Social: sc.social.like

➡ Tag Cloud Vaporisation

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Organization
changes

➡ Awareness

‣ one course

‣ they know they can
publish information

➡ Delegation of the
responsabilities

‣ creation of teams

‣ each owns an area

‣ website manager
coordinates

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Beneﬁts

➡ Fast delivery

‣ 1 month from startup to
golive

‣ ﬁrst contents, then theme

➡ No more fees

➡ Organization re-thinked

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Main issues

➡ Migration from an old
proprietary platform
‣ a lot of separated websites
‣ a lot of contents

‣ several features

➡ Centralized editing and review,
but distributed contributors from
all the organization

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Main issues

➡ Homepages conﬁguration must
have great ﬂexibility:
‣ portlet page,

‣ content well portlet,

‣ a lot of new custom portlets
➡ Subsites, federated sites

‣ SSO
➡ “Areas” - a folderish object that
allows editors to personalize look
& feel

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add-ons

➡ Easier customization: portlets

‣ ContentWellPortlets

‣ Portlet page

‣ ER Navigation portlet

‣ Portlet advanced static

‣ Collection portlet with
custom view

➡ photos:

‣ photo galleries

‣ collective.carousel

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add-ons

➡ press room, council management

➡ social: sc.social.like

➡ Google Search Appliance
integration

➡ custom policies to grant ﬁne
tuning about portlet and collection
management

➡ redturtle.smartlink

➡ anonymous view for the editors

➡ rt.purge

➡ Newsletter: Singing & Dancing &
add-ons (collective.danceﬂoor)

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IIS
IIS

Architecture
apache apache
➡ Balanced IIS

➡ 3 servers
varnish varnish
‣ 1 Reverse Proxy (apache)

‣ 1 Web accelerator (varnish)

‣ 1 Proxy Balancer (Pound) Pound Pound

‣ 4 zeo client

‣ 1 zeo server

➡ SAN/zodb partitioned/blob

➡ High Availability
cluster zeo server
redhat

zodb
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deliver it, deliver always,
deliver fast

➡ The portal has great
visibility/reputation in our
region

➡ it has to manage peaks during
election days

‣ 20M hits/month - 7.7 hits/sec

‣ 1.3M hits/day - 15.1 hits/sec

➡ let’s siege it

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Siege
# siege -f resources.txt -i -c 10 -t 15M

Do you *really* need
a subsite?

➡ yes, if you want to:

‣ create an internal link to a
content inside another
subsite

‣ create a collection that take
contents from more that a
subsite

‣ ﬁnd documents also from
outside the subsite

➡ otherwise you probably don't
need a subsite but simply
another Plone site

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You also
may want
➡ a different theme

➡ the visitor surfs the subsite:

‣ domain.com/subsite

‣ subsite.com

‣ subdomain.domain.com

➡ the visitor should be not aware that
he's visiting a subsection of a bigger
site

➡ site contributors:

‣ mostly access the site through a
back-end.domain.com domain

‣ see the whole site, not only the
subsite

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redturtle.subsites

➡ frontend navigation is limited to
the subsite only:

‣ breadcrumbs

‣ root

‣ navigation portlet

➡ searches run globally

➡ collections run globally

‣ backend editors can decide if
run them locally only

➡ frontend editors work as they act
on a indipendent Plone site

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More infos
➡ pypi.python.org:

‣ redturtle.subsites

‣ example.rtsubsites_theme

➡ http://blog.redturtle.it/redturtle-blog/
sottositi-in-plone-la-nostra-soluzione

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Beneﬁts

➡ a back-end interface that
hides the subsite behaviours

➡ a front-end interface that show
some folders as subsites

➡ an easy way to create
additional themes for this
folders/subsites

➡ subsites are activated
dinamically

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Two components

➡ Internos

‣ user dashboard, bookmarks,
personal notiﬁcations,

‣ “Mercatino”

‣ “The expert replies”

➡ Groupware

‣ Docs, Events, News

‣ Forum, Blog, Projects

‣ Surveys, Comments

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Internos
➡ Plone standard

‣ Custom theme

‣ “usual” add ons

‣ 7.000 registered users

‣ Active Directory

➡ Documentation intranet

➡ Complex dashboard management

➡ “Mercatino”

‣ rer.passaparola

‣ rer.bookcrossing

➡ Q&A

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Groupware

➡ Eterogeneous groups of
people need to collaborate

➡ The focus is on the activities

➡ Local roles

➡ Delegation of responsabilities

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The “group’s objects”

➡ Documents

➡ Events

➡ News

➡ Forum (Ploneboard)

➡ Blog (collective.blog.star)

➡ Projects (extreme
management)

➡ Surveys (PlonePopoll)

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Groups and
delegation

➡ Managers

‣ Add users to groups

‣ Delegate tasks

➡ Editors

‣ Add contents, collections,
folders, portletpages,

➡ Collaborators

‣ Add contents

➡ Guests

‣ Read only

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Collaboration and
notifications

➡ Comments on every object

‣ killer feature?!

➡ Predefined notifications

‣ every user can change them

➡ Personal bookmarking

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The problem

➡ Customer needs to publish a
period bulletin of laws/tenders/
etc.

➡ The old solution

‣ had a slow workﬂow

‣ had long manual tasks

‣ was expensive

• 1.7M+0.6M per year

‣ was paper based

‣ had manual distribution

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The solution

➡ Data retrieving and workflow
management through the web

➡ Automatic layout based on a
definable schema

➡ Creation of a PDF/A file, digitally
signed by the bulletin manager

➡ Bulletin publication:

‣ PDF/A format

‣ website

➡ Store everything in a centralized
and general purpose archive

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The implementation

➡ Plone based

➡ Custom Archetypes

➡ Management views to let data
collection and composition View
easier

➡ Integration with InDesign

‣ XML to PDF AT
➡ webservice integration for

‣ grant access to externals

‣ connection with the central
archive

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Benefits

➡ Easy to use

➡ Improved comunication between
editors; fast to learn

➡ Savings

‣ 2.2M saved the first year

‣ 240 tons of paper

➡ More effective

‣ deadline can be closer to delivery

‣ easier subscription management

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Main issues

➡ Multimedia

‣ Videos

‣ Podcasts

‣ Photos

➡ and others:

‣ Solr

‣ Google Search Appliance

‣ Maps

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Videos & podcasts:
Mediacore

➡ MediaCore is a media
publishing platform

➡ you can create and control
your own fully-featured video
site

➡ works on any desktop browser
and on popular mobile devices

➡ the community edition is
opensource

‣ python/pylons

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Integration
Plone and Mediacore

➡ Editors use Mediacore to
upload their video/podcasts

➡ Mediacore contents can be
easily embedded in Plone

‣ as a HTML snippet

‣ redturtle.video

➡ Plone editors just have a
simple content type

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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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‣ 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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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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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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Questions ?
Massimo Azzolini
RedTurtle’s co-founder
and project manager
massimo@redturtle.it
tw: @massimoazzolini

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