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Plone Hosting: A Panel Discussion
A lot has been happening in the world of hosting Plone sites. Sally moderates this 2014 Plone Conference session, which aims to provide a forum for sharing information and debating approaches.
Ancient to Modern: Upgrading Nearly a Decade of Plone in Public Radio
At the 2014 Plone Conference in Bristol, Cris described our project to bring KCRW's website up to modern web practices.
Plone+Salesforce
The combination of Plone and Salesforce is a great deal for non-profits.
Academic Websites in Plone
Websites targeted at academics have common themes. This talk describes why Plone is well suited to academic websites and discusses some of the most important add-ons that target academic problems.
Managing Agile CMS Projects
All the pieces have fallen into place for that big website project. You've chosen a CMS, you've lined up the budget, you've gathered a team of developers, you've selected a design firm. You've worked with all the stakeholders and come up with a long list of features. The CMS will provide many of them, but some will need custom development. How are you going to manage the project?
Online Exhibits in Plone - Round 2
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection recently completed a major website redesign, with Plone as their chosen CMS, and online exhibits are an important part of the new site. They wanted many features, but they also wanted online exhibits to be easy for content editors - even interns - to create.
Online Exhibits in Plone
Museums, libraries, art institutes, and many other types of organizations need online exhibits - websites that mimic the experience of walking through a gallery discovering interesting and beautiful objects. Sally describes the open source package that we have created for Dumbarton Oaks, and our incremental approach to defining and implementing it.
How To Get a Fabulous Website on a Modest Budget Using Plone
The University of Minnesota Press had big ideas about what they wanted their website to do, but a budget that common wisdom would judge too modest for those aspirations. Sally and Alec describe how Jazkarta was able to create the site that UMP dreamed of within their budget constraints using Plone.
When Not to Use Plone: and Why You Might Consider Django or Pyramid
Nate explores scenarios when a full-featured CMS such as Plone is the right tool for the job, and when a more lightweight web framework is preferable.
Pyramid Deployment and Maintenance
Carlos shows how a Pyramid application can be deployed using a front end web server like Apache or Nginx. He also covers how to automate deployment using buildout and a PyPI clone, and post-deployment creation of a variety of maintenance scripts and cron jobs that perform application specific tasks through Pyramid.
The Future of Search in Plone
Sally provides an information retrieval tutorial and discusses the questions: What does Solr bring to Plone? Should Solr become part of Plone core?
ZODB Tips and Tricks
We may know that our content is safely stored in the ZODB, but there's a lot more than the Zope Object Database can do for us. In this talk Carlos covers some tips and tricks to do things like rescue crashed databases, do ad-hoc reports of database objects, view the contents of the ZODB outside of Plone, use relstorage and more.
Plone is great... Python is too!
So you decided to use Plone for your project or are considering it. One of the greatest benefits about that decision is that you get to work with Python. Don't stay on the shallow end of the pool, go deeper into Python! Carlos shows how you can use it to make your site work better and maybe even create some independent Python apps.
Agile Development with Plone
Sally describes Jazkarta's approach to managing a Plone website development project in an agile fashion, with a part time, distributed team. Topics include roles, scheduling, estimation, and project management tools.
Moving to the Cloud
"The Cloud" is a buzzword these days, but in this talk Nate and Sally describe what you need to know about public and private clouds, why it's important, and why you might want to consider it for your company/organization.
How to Choose an Open Source CMS
Nate outlines the evaluation process, important considerations, and compares Plone, Drupal, Joomla!, and Wordpress.
Plone Web Services Panel Discussion - Budapest
Sally led this panel discussion at the 2009 Plone Conference in Budapest. Matt Wilkes describes AtomPub for Plone, Matt Hamilton discusses CMIS, and Alec Mitchell and Calvin Hendryx-Parker describe their adventures with Plone web services.
Scientific Collaboration with Plone: A Case Study
Sally describes the lessons learned on a project to create a scientific collaboration site for the Advancing Green Chemistry organization. The site helped policy experts quickly prepare a brief for the incoming Obama administration.