Plone Conference 2010, Bristol, UK

What is Plone?

Plone is an open source content management system written in Python. It is among the top 2% of all open source projects worldwide, with 340 core developers and more than 300 solution providers in 57 countries. Developed originally by Alan Runyan and Alexander Limi, the project has been actively developed since 2001, is available in more than 40 languages and has the best security track record of any major CMS. It is owned by the Plone Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, and is available for all major operating systems. Enjoyable for its excellent and easy to use UI for content managers, it's also a blazing fast CMS - especially if starting from Plone 4!

What Is the Plone Conference?

Once per year, Plone users, developers, content managers, integrators and a whole companies (Plone service providers) agree on a time and place to meet together. Plone conferences are great events that attract a lot of like-minded people to learn new skills and tricks, share experience, get down and dirty with new code and once in a while… have a glass or two of beer.

This Year’s Conference in Bristol, UK

This year’s Plone conference is hosted by Netsight and is located in Bristol, UK, running from the 25th - 31st of October. Bristol is considered one of England’s ‘core cities’ and is the most popular city in the South West of England. It is the largest centre of culture, employment and education in the region and so there is much to see and experience in Bristol – a city that accommodates for all tastes and preferences.

Vitaliy at this year's Plone conference

Vitaliy is taking part in this year's Plone conference and will share the experiences he’s had while working intensively with Plone over the last full year; specifically:

• dexterity - content types as an alternative to Archetypes
• deliverance tool to apply static themes over Plone content
• deco grid based layout framework
• web services in Plone
• LDAP and it's integration with Plone
• transmogrifier migrations
• plone.app.discussion - new comments engine for Plone

We are all really excited for his return! Keep an eye out for his report after he returns home from his whole week of Plone goodness.