Plone: battle-scarred community with battle tanks

Here are my slides from Plone Conference 2013 presentation about Plone community, how I ended up as a Plone consultant and how I stopped doing it. The slides are not content rich and a narrative is required for comprehension. I’ll put up a link to video recording when it becomes online.

The slide where exported with my pdf-to-html Python script, which converts PDF exported slides to a blog post HTML with <img alt> tags.

Remember: Plone is like Hotel California. You can checkout any time, but you can never leave.

Beauty of the beast Mikko Ohtamaa Plone Conference 2013 @moo9000

Agenda ! How Plone happens ! Why I started doing Plone ! Why I stopped doing Plone

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 *) sometimes a caiprinha or two

2003 Nokia did user interface testing of Series 40 phones with Python scripting A nuclear blast proof phone Microsoft

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Many many beers ago in galaxy far away Ploneconf 2007 - Napoli Having a PC

Everybody loves Plone

(except developers) ( ! ! )

Solving right problems wrong Python View Viewlet Manager Viewlets TAL HTML DOM / lxml Diazo XML XSLT Component LookupError WTF ??? Robot Git

Plone is not attractive ! Everybody who is not making money out of Plone doesnÕt want to touch it ! Ecosystem has found its niche , but it is not growing

! ItÕs hard to grow your business if Plone is core of your business ! I could work forever as a consultant alone, but meh

localbitcoins.com/p/opensourcehacker By some bitcoins from me with reals!

There is unexplained beauty in Plone the community

Plone has only 1 feature ! There is no thing it cannot do ! Most advanced plugin system ever written in any programming language ! Most advanced permission, role and sharing system which bends so you donÕt have to

Battle-scarred community ! Old enough to look into a mirror and admit the mistakes of the past ! Most friendly community ! No question goes unanswered ... but you might regret asking ÒWe were young. We needed the money.Ó