The document discusses the history and current state of the Plone content management system (CMS) and its open source community. It describes how Plone originated from Zope in 1998 and has the oldest living open source CMS. While the ecosystem has found its niche, the community is an organic mix of small consultancies rather than a single leader. The document also notes that Plone may be difficult to grow a business around solely but that its advanced plugin system and permissions make it suitable for medium-large organizations with complex needs. Overall, it portrays the Plone community as battle-scarred but friendly and one that attracts intelligent people and happens everywhere.
6. There is no one on the
driverâs seat
The community is an organic
mash up of small consulting
shops having beer* with public
sector IT departments
*) sometimes a caiprinha or two
7. 2003 Nokia did user
interface testing
of Series 40
phones with
Python scripting
A nuclear blast
proof phone
Microsoft
14. Solving right problems wrong
Python
View
Viewlet Manager
Viewlets
TAL
HTML
DOM / lxml
Diazo XML
XSLT
Component
LookupError
WTF ??? Robot
Git
15. Plone is not attractive
â Everybody who is not making money
out of Plone doesnât want to touch it
â Ecosystem has found its niche,
but it is not growing
16. â Itâs hard to grow your business if
Plone is core of your business
â I could work forever as a consultant
alone, but meh
20. Plone has only 1 feature
â There is no thing it cannot do
â Most advanced plugin system ever
written in any programming language
â Most advanced permission, role and
sharing system which bends so you
donât have to
21. Battle-scarred community
â Old enough to look into a mirror and
admit the mistakes of the past
â Most friendly community
â No question goes unanswered ... but
you might regret asking
âWe were young.
We needed the money.â