Plone Community Software Freedom Day 2008

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Software freedom and Plone

Aaron VanDerlip, Jazkarta.comSoftware Freedom Day

September 20, 2008

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What is Plone

• content management system

• flexible framework - Zope and Python

• open source (GPL V2) and standards compliant

• large developer community

• IP and trademark overseen by foundation




Plone and SFD

• What does Plone have to do with Software Freedom Day?

• Currently runs fsf.org

• Plone and the community support the ideals of software freedom




Software Freedom Day Vision

“Our vision is to empower all people to freely connect, create and share in a digital world that is participatory, transparent, and sustainable.”

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/about






Language support• There is a big world out there

• It does not speak English necessarily

• Work to allow your users to use their own language

• This is a core value of the Plone community




• The Plone interface has more than 35 translations

• Plone was designed from the ground up for multilingual content management. It handles Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew




Accessibility matters

• There is a big world out there

• It may not be like you

• Work to support accessibility for your users

• This is a core value of the Plone community




• Plone meets or exceeds U.S. Government Section 508 and W3C's WAI-AA standards for sight and motor impaired individuals.

• All Javascript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser




Community

Plone has one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh, which lists most of the major open source projects in the world.




Community

• Over two hundred developers have committed to the core

• The nonprofit, community-governed Plone Foundation owns and protects all intellectual property and trademarks. Plone also has legal backing from the Software Freedom Law Center.




And we care




Plonistas come togetherfor face time

• Annual conference - Oct. ‘07 in Naples, Italy

• Plone Symposiums, two in the US, many more world wide.

• Sprints in Norway, Austria, San Francisco, New York, Holland, Vancouver, etc.




Snow SprintEgg, Austria Jan.27-Feb. 4


Calendaring SprintBurning Man HQ, San Francisco (Dec. 05)


Plone conferenceVienna Austria

(Sept. 05)


Castle Sprint, Austria


Plone conference 2004Vienna, Austria


As Developers we..

• build tools for us, they face inward

• build tools for society, they face outward

• Outward facing tools bring people into our community.



www.jazkarta.com 617-517-4953Software Freedom Day (9/20/08)

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