https://www.rpatterson.net/Ross Patterson's Blog - Posts tagged World Plone Day 20082025-07-14T00:00:49.076327+00:00ABloghttps://www.rpatterson.net/blog/my-borrowed-world-plone-day/My Borrowed World Plone Day2008-11-08T00:00:00+00:00Ross Patterson<section id="my-borrowed-world-plone-day">
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<div><p>How I crashed Donna Snow’s presentation</p>
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<p>I'm spending my World Plone Day at <a class="external-link" href="http://snowwrites.com/2008/11/08/world-plone-day-2008-introspection/">Donna Snow's presentations</a> at Sunnyvale, CA. It's been a blast.</p>
<p>Donna started out describing her participation in the Plone community and her company, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.csquaredtech.com/">C Squared Enterprises</a> (C2E). Then she moved onto a <a class="external-link" href="http://www.slideshare.net/ckwilde/world-plone-day-2008-presentation-674506/">slideshow</a> with a good overview of what Plone is and some of the best reasons for adopting it. Next she gave a live demonstration of a Plone 3.1.6 site and managed to convey a lot of the very feature rich set that Plone brings out of the box keeping everyone engaged the whole while. An excellent presentation.</p>
<p>Donna graciously invited me to make some contributions to the presentation from a developer's perspective. It gave me the chance to talk about some of the technical underpinnings of the Plone stack I most admire. The internationalization and translation capabilities seemed to get a lot of favor, big surprise there. :) I listed WSGI and Deliverance theming as some of the more likely future directions for Plone and was surprised how much interest that got. I definitely enjoyed participating.</p>
<p>Here are some of the questions asked:</p>
<ul><li>What other CMS are there?</li><li>What is Plone's market share or adoption rate? Is it growing or shrinking? How does it compare with other CMS?</li><li>How is translation done?</li><li>Are live backups possible? Can they be done TTW?</li><li>Can we see the developers view of a template?</li><li>I heard Plone is slow?</li><li>What's this Zope 2 and Zope 3 stuff?</li><li>Can you make the calendar portlet start the week with Sunday?</li><li>What is the granularity of the security framework?</li><li>How can I integrate external database queries with Plone?</li></ul>
<p>It was a first for me sitting in a room fielding questions from people who were doing their initial evaluation of Plone. While none of the questions were surprising, it was nonetheless very informative.</p>
<p>It was very generous of Donna and C2E to pay for the space and the materials and to donate all the time. I think it was worth it. Best quote of the day?</p>
<p class="callout">I'm a convert.</p>
<p>It looks like the second session is turning out to be more of an installfest. :)</p>
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<p class="admonition-title">Updated on 08 November 2008</p>
<p>Imported from Plone on Mar 15, 2021. The date for this update is the last
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How I crashed Donna Snow’s presentation2008-11-07T00:00:00+00:00