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Beauty of the beast Mikko Ohtamaa World Plone Day 2013 Jyv−skyl−

Agenda ! History of Plone ! Psyche of the community ! What it takes to get there

Oldest living open source CMS* ! Zope 1998 ! Plone 2000 ! Plone Foundation 2004 *) unless claimed otherwise

There is no one on the driverÕs seat The community is an organic mash up of small consulting shops  having beer with public sector IT departments

! Plone Foundation, non-proÞt rights holder ! 240 active or emeritus Foundation members ! 50+ sponsors ! 400 guests in conference Living and kicking

Everybody loves Plone

(except developers) ( ! ! )

Plone is famous for ! Python programming language ! Security ! Flexibility ! Not being famous

Byproducts of community ! 274 installed packages ! 255 MB installed source code ! 228 + 890 Github repos

Zope2/Startup/misc/zpasswd.py: Copyright (C) 1999, 2000  Digital Creations, Inc.

Riding the beast ! Self-organizing community teams ! High degree of automatization and continuous integration ! Enhancement proposals ÒPLIPsÓ

Plone community attracts  most intelligent and interesting people...

...and happens everywhere ! World conference ! 2-4 continental symposiums ! ~10 sprints ! ~10 virtual Tune Ups ! 1 World Plone Day

Unparalleled opportunity for international  co-operation

Not always so easy

Too much Python View Viewlet Manager Viewlets TAL HTML DOM / lxml Diazo XML XSLT Component LookupError WTF ??? Robot Git

... like Finland in Eurovision Popular and well-known

Not a part-time hobby to get to Plone you must go and meet people in strange places

! Ugliest legacy codebase ! Not having smart enough living person to Þx your bug ! No one caring about us ...still... Even with...

Plone is the best CMS  for medium-large scale organizations with 15+ editors, several subsites and complex workßow needs

Plone rocks like no other community on this planet

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