Fulvio Casali, https://2020.ploneconf.org/speakers/fulvio-casali A brief compendium of Plone's history. I've read hundreds of plone.org news items, so you don't have to. In the process, I discovered lots of precious nuggets of our collective lore, some evergreen, some almost forgotten, sure to evoke warm fuzzy memories for the grizzled veterans among us. https://2020.ploneconf.org/talks/oh-the-places-weve-been-plone-2001-

1. Oh, the Places We’ve Been!
Plone 2001 - 2020

2. Who is the handsome young man on the left?

3. Plone Symposium South America 2010 - Cordoba Argentina

5. The Abstract
Fulvio Casali - github:fulv
social media refusenik
NOT on facebook since ~2011
NOT on twitter since ~2015ish
Web Collective (Seattle, USA): 2008 - 2011
Soliton Consulting: 2012 - ?
Physicist 1994 - 97

7. The Experiment
Folks, I have added the list of tags to the style guide:
https://plone.org/news/plone-org-style-guide
Here is your assignment of news item years to tag (you can use the links to the year collections in the right portlet). I discovered
that if I assigned everyone 3 years we could do them all, so that's what I did.
● Sally: 2020, 2019, 2008, 2002
● Rikupekka: 2018, 2017, 2007
● Erico: 2016, 2015, 2006
● Fulvio: 2014, 2013, 2005
● William: 2012, 2011, 2004
● Norbert: 2010, 2009, 2003
Thanks!

8. So we strapped on our hard hats…
Modeled by Rikupekka

9. Descended into the pits of plone.org/news...

10. ...and started digging, until...

11. … a treasure revealed itself.

12. Our Data Set: 855 News Items
● “Editorial” standards changed
over the years
● Self-registration was open and
many people posted News
Items early on
● “News digests” in 2009, 2010,
2014, 2015
● Discourse was started in 2014
(community.plone.org)
● Some years News Items were
used to aggressively promote
ploneconf (e.g. 2012)

14. DISCLAIMERS
● Mountain peaks are not the most important features on a map
● News Items do not represent our whole history

15. Stages of Development
The Early Days 2001 - 2005
The Middle Days 2006 - 2014
The Latter Days and the Rebirth 2015 - 2020

17. The Early Days
First known screenshot of early Plone: August 12, 2001
Plone 1.0 released in early 2003
First PloneConf: 2003 New Orleans
150 people!
Sprints, Bug Days - later: Plone TuneUps
Milestones
May 24, 2002 1000 CVS commits
January 30, 2004 Plone passes the 100.000 download mark
July 20, 2007 Plone reaches 1 million downloads

18. The Climax
● World-wide adoption
● Policy
● Books
● Awards
● Google Summer of Code (since 2006!), also Google Season of Docs 2019,
Google Highly Open Participation Contest 2007
● Press
● Plone Representation at Conferences
● User Groups, Meetups
● Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives (e.g. PloneGov 2007, PloneEdu)

19. Books
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

20. Poll!

21. Awards (highly incomplete)
● Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Award
(2006, 2008, 2009, 2011)
● BIENE Award Bronze 2004
● IMIO wins European Commission Prize 2018
● Danish Accessibility Award 2005
● OpenID Foundation Award 2007
● Irish Public Service Excellence Award 2009
● EU “Good Practice label” 2007
● The “Bossies” Infoworld Best of Open Source
Award nomination 2012
● Havlick Award 2008
● Grand prix du jury des Lutèce d'Or 2007
● And many, many more
Some were awarded to “Plone”, some to particular
initiatives, e.g. PloneGov, PloneEdu, some to
specific Plone Companies or for the merits of
specific websites launched by them.

22. Press (highly incomplete)
2004 - eWeek Review compliments Plone
2004 - Interview with Plone Founders on O’Reilly
web site
2006 - Interview on accessibiliy at webstandards.org
2006 - Interview at NetSquared
2009 - IT World, interview on “How to Sponsor an
Open Source Sprint”
2012 - Plone profiled in Intranetizen
And many more!

23. Plone Representation at Conferences (highly incomplete)
● Pycon, EuroPython (2002+), other Python conferences
● 2002 OSCOM
● 2003 COMDEX
● 2004 Webbit Padova (It)
● 2006 LinuxWorld
● 2007 LinuxWorld San Francisco
● 2014 Cebit
● (for many years) CMS Garden
And many more

24. Policy (highly incomplete)
● 2004 Plone Foundation Established
● 2007 Plone Trademark
● 2010 Plone Diversity Statement Approved
● 2011 Plone Conference Adopts Anti-Harassment Policy

25. Worldwide Adoption (highly incomplete)
Governments:
2003 - Austrian Ministry recommeends Plone for schools and
universities
2004 - Brazilian Government consolidates Zope/Plone platform
2005 - 68 Local Government Plone sites in Australia deployed
2005 - New Zealand releases Web Guidelines for Plone
2006 - La Jornada uses Plone to cover the Mexican elections
2006 - El Nuevo Diario uses Plone to cover Nicaraguan elections
And many, many more
User Groups
Many dozens User Groups around the world

26. Pop Quiz (speaking of User Groups)
Invite to 1st SF Bay Area Plone Lounge, Nov 1, 2005:
PloneLounge is driven by YOU, and we guarantee: this won't be your ordinary boring user
group... UGh!
Learn the secret handshake!
There will be free punch and pie, good music and decent lighting, plus a chance to meet
like-minded and fashionably dressed folks interested in Plone and related Open Source
software.
Bring a date!

27. Awards at San Jose Sprint Feb 4, 2005
Everybody "won", and recieved a cool MP3 player as reward for their hard efforts this week. Here are the awards:
* Joel Burton: Most irresponsible use of CVS HEAD Award
* Rob Miller: Second best looking team coach Award
* Alexander Limi: Mac Daddy UI Use Case Award
* Anders Pearson: Most Talkative Award
* Kapil Thangavelu: Least likely to mangle PAS user IDs Award
* Ben Saller: Mobile Radio Mixmaster Award
* Michael Bernstein: Most efficient at converting test errors into failures Award
* Whit: Honorary title of "Plone Pimp" Award
* Spanky: Least likely to be caught without a sound system award.
* Sasha Vincic: Most likely to be flipped off while taking a picture award.
* Nisha: Most bubbly Award
* Sameena: Most giggly Award
* Gautham Hedge: Plone Ping Pong Champion Award
* Bob Barter: Best "My-God-This-Is-How-You-Develop-Software?" Look Award
* Tim Bruce: Most commits without bragging about it Award.
* Munwar Shariff: Plone Party Animal Award
* Chad Whitacre: Plone safe driver Award
* Dan Krech: Best use of "triple" in a sentence Award
* Michel Pelletier: Best-organized Sprint Organizer Award

28. Everybody do the Plone Walk! Symposium East 2009

29. The Latter Days
Still going strong:
● Sprints
● Conferences
● Training (who needs books?)
● Foundation still working hard
In Early Days:
Volto

32. Plone community now owns the word Plone
https://plone.org/news/old-news/plone-community-owns-now-the-word-plone
Dec 3, 2007
Plone Foundation finalizes the trademark transfer. The community, via the Plone
Foundation, now "owns" the word Plone in nearly all areas of the world. This article
outlines the Plone Foundation's role protecting collective interests. It also highlights the
Plone Community's values, basis of the development of a thriving ecosystem where
developers, SMEs and users work together for the benefit of all.

33. Dorneles Treméa

34. What is your
“Great Divide”
moment?

35. Conclusions

36. Practical Observations
Ever tried Plone as a user?
Tools to help manage large amounts of content (i.e. “Content Quality”)
In the earliest Plone releases, the plone.org site was being upgraded/migrated
as part of the release process by the core developer team.
We need that.

37. Conclusions
Think differently about Plone in 2021 and beyond
It is unhelpful to compare the present to the past
Keep what works (Sprints, Conferences, Foundation)
Support the people/companies/clients we have
Invest in the greatest promise

38. Thank You

39. Image Credits
● Great divide: https://kidsdiscover.com/shop/issues/regions-of-north-america/
● Watershed divide: https://www.quora.com/Is-watershed-similar-to-water-divide-or-river-basin
● Sea level: https://smartwatermagazine.com/news/european-commission/report-coastal-adaptation-against-sea-level-rise-makes-economic-sense
● Story Time with grandpa: https://www.megapixl.com/story-time-with-grandpa-stock-photo-12717947
● Historian: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/need-command-historians-adf/
● Plone Syposium South America: Franco Pellegrini