Moving your website to the next level with Plone
Grassroots Use of Technology Conference Tang Center, MIT April 16, 2005
Nate Aune, IT Consultant [email protected] Jazkarta - www.jazkarta.com
Who is this guy?
B.A. Computer Science & Music Minor, Pacic Lutheran University (1991-94) Study abroad and work in Copenhagen, Denmark (1994-97) Studied Jazz Performance & Composition, Berklee College of Music (1997-99) Founded Jazkarta Consulting in New York City (2001) IT Director for Learning Lab Denmark (2002-2004) Founded Plone4Artists project (2003) Self-employed consultant - Jazkarta.com (2004-Present)
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Agenda
What is Plone? Who is using Plone? Why Plone? Compared to other CMS What about support? And hosting? What can Plone do? Demos Questions & discussion
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What is Plone?
open source content management system
(CMS)
freely downloadable software under the
GPL license
built by an international community of
friendly developers Linux)
not owned by any single company (like
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Oxfam America US Aid United Nations National Health Services (UK) Open Source Development Labs Omidyar Network Greenpeace NASA Jet Propulsion Labs (Mars Rover site)
Who uses Plone?
Oxfam America www.oxfamamerica.org
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National Health Services (UK) www.npt.nhs.uk
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International Open Source Network www.iosn.net
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Omidyar Network
www.omidyar.net/home
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Open Source Development Lab www.osdl.org
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Street Football World
www.streetfootballworld.org
This website is an interactive and participative communication and cooperation platform for sharing good practice and global networking for football based social projects and initiatives. These projects primarily target less privileged, impoverished, poorly educated, war-torn and conicting people and regions with the aim of promoting peaceful conict resolution, non-formal education, crime reduction, social integration and health prevention - using football as the main tool and common language! This platform represents a global community of these football projects, built on the principles of diversity, sustainability and inclusiveness.
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Ubuntu Linux www.ubuntulinux.org
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Learning Lab Denmark www.lld.dk
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VoteWatch www.votewatch.us
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Greenpeace Cyberactivist Community act.greenpeace.org
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Public Knowledge
www.publicknowledge.org
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Human Rights Network www.humanrights.net.nz
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Why Plone?
Basic content management features built-in Workow tool 100+ add-on products (most are open
source and freely downloadable) indexing and syndication
Rich services such as full-text searching and
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Why Plone? (2)
Designer friendly Easy to use Accessibility Modular Scalable Multilingual
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Plone = designer friendly
Fully-validated Much can be
XHTML templates changed with just CSS coders can work simultaneously without stepping on each others toes
Designers and
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Plone = easy to use
Strong focus on end-user
usability
Most users need minimal to
no training content
Drag-n-drop uploading of
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Carefully follows standards
for accessibility
Plone = accessibility
Fully compliant with text
browsers and screen readers
Plone pages are compliant
with US Section 508, and the W3Cs AA rating for accessibility
Mrs. Habisch, from Vorarlberger Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired, using Plone with a braille reader
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Plone = modular
Start simple and build on top of a solid
foundation
Add/remove plug-ins with one click Extensible as your needs grow
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Plone = scalable
Apache ZEO pound Squid
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Oxfam Americas Plone site raises $14 million
A primary goal of the OxfamAmerica.org site was to implement a system that could scale to meet Oxfam's growing organization and donor base for years to come. When the Tsunami crisis occurred, the system was put to the test. "In the course of ten days during the Tsunami crisis, Oxfam had almost half of its typical yearly visits, and almost 1/3 of its yearly bandwidth - the system performed beautifully", said Internet Manager Nicholas Rabinowitz. "Our public website oered timely, critical content to our users, while providing a solid gateway to our online donation system."
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Plone = multilingual
Internationalization of UI
and content
Translated out-of-the Supports right-to-left
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box into 40+ languages, more than any other CMS languages such as Hebrew, Arabic
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ZopeChina.com (in English)
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ZopeChina.com (in Chinese)
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Why not Plone?
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The Z Learning Curve
Warning: Plone has a steep learning curve. If your organization has limited technical staff 1.You may want to consider an alternative CMS such as Mambo, Drupal, Midgaard 2. Or hire a Plone consultant to bootstrap your organization, and get you up to speed. CMS matrix chart
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What about support?
Free support Commercial support
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Free support
Online support from
worldwide community (50 msgs/day) plone.user, plone.devel, plone.design, (120 users) #plone, #archetypes, #plonedesign
irc.freenode.net
Mailing lists / newsgroups
plone.archetypes, plone.documentation
IRC - internet relay chat
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plone.org/documentation
paste in doc screenshot from plone.org/
documentation
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Commercial Support
120+ Plone/Zope solution
providers listed on
www.opensourcexperts.com
190+ Plone/Zope solution
providers listed on
www.zope.org/Resources/ZSP
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Books
Denitive Guide to Plone
Andy McKay, APress FREE online version: www.jazkarta.com/technology/plone/plonebook J. Cameron Cooper, Packt Publishing Julie Meloni, SAMS
Building Websites with Plone
Plone Content Management Essentials
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Hosting
Self-hosting Free hosting Commercial hosting
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Self-hosting
Point-n-click
installers for Windows & OS X instructions for installing on Linux, FreeBSD Web, FTP, WebDAV server
Step-by-step
Zope has built-in
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Free Hosting
Objectis -
www.objectis.org www.ingenihosting.com
Ingenihosting -
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Commercial hosting
Zettai - www.zettai.net iMeme - www.imeme.net Nidelven - www.nidelven-it.no/hosting Interlix - www.interlix.com
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What can Plone do?
Zope System admin * One le to backup: Data.fs (ZODB) using the included repozo.py script * Scalability (ZEO, pound) Plone webmaster tasks * Installing products (QuickInstaller) * Users/group management (GroupUserFolder, CMFMember) * Adding portlets (PlonePortlets) * Changing colors (CSSManager) Editing content * WYSIWYG editor in browser (Kupu, Epoz) * Using a desktop application (ExternalEditor) * Using WebDAV share (Novell Netdrive Windows, Goliath OS X, MacOS X) * Inserting images on a page (PloneArticle, RichDocument) * Aggregating content on pages o ListingPages, CompositePack, CMFContentPanels, mxmDynamicPage Syndicating your site content * RSS 2.0 & MP3 enclosures i.e. Podcasting (qRSS2Syndication) * Atomz (PloneAtom) Calendaring * Events listing (CMFCalendar) * Calendar of events (CalendarX) * Calendars published from iCal, Mozilla Calendar o Calendaring, PloneiCalendar, iCalendar Creative Commons Licensing (PloneCC) Reporting (CMFReportTool, ReportLab) E-Commerce * PloneMall * ZWarehouse * PlonePayPal Polls/Surveys * PlonePopoll, MPoll, CMFQuestions Communication & Collaboration * Mailing lists (Mailboxer, PloneMailboxer) * Discussion boards (CMFBoard, Ploneboard) * Newsletter tools (PloneGazette, CMFNewsletter, PloneNewsletter) * Workgroups (mxmWorkGroups, GrufSpaces) * Wiki (ZWiki) * Blogging (SimpleBlog, Quills, COREBlog) * Chat (PloneChat) * Instant Messaging (PloneIM, CMFMessage) * Contacts directory (PloneContacts) Resources * Book library (ATAmazon) * Links (ATBookmarks, CMFLinkChecker) * RSS news feeds from other sites (CMFSin, CMFFeed) * Open Ofce documents (CMFOODocument) Multimedia * Photos (CMFPhoto, ZPhotoSlides) * Audio (ATAudio) * Video (lilix.movie, PloneRailroad) * Flash (CMFFlashFile) Searching * Search other sites (PloneSearchBox) * Search other Plone sites (PloneRSSSearch) * Full-text indexing of Word, PDF docs (TextIndexNG, AttachmentField) * Immediate search results as you type (LiveSearch) * Optimization for search engines (RobotsExclusionTool, qSEOptimizer) Multilingual * User interface in 40+ languages (PloneTranslations, PlacelessTranslationService) * Multilingual content (LinguaPlone) Authentication * LDAP (LDAPUserFolder) * MySQL (MySQLUserFolder) * Extensible (PluggableUserFolder)
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Thank you!
Demo Questions? Discussion
PDF version of these slides available at: www.jazkarta.com/next-level-plone.pdf List of products mentioned: www.jazkarta.com/ploneproducts
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