Plone Conference 2012 Coming to Arnhem, the Netherlands

Arnhem, the Netherlands will host the 2012 Plone Conference, the Plone Foundation announced today following a vote of the foundation membership. The Arnhem proposal, championed by Dutch Plone Developers Four Digits, beat out a competing proposal for the conference to be held in Paris, France which was made by Abstract and Fanelli Consulting.



The Plone Conference 2012 will be held in Arnhem on October 10-12, with pre-conference training on October 8-9 and a post-conference sprint October 13-14.



You can find out more here - http://plone.org/news/plone-conference-2012-host-announced

Munich Plone Conference is Just Around the Corner

The first Plone Conference in Munich is being held from February 22-24, featuring talks, training and Sprints. Keynote Speakers include Plone Foundation President Matt Hamilton, Elizabeth Leddy of the Plone Framework Team, and Plone co-founder Alan Runyan.

You can find out more about the conference by visiting their website - http://konferenz.plone.de/

Introducing Ploud

by Saba Resnick

Ploud is a free software as a service platform for the Plone content management system (Plone SaaS).



Evaluating and deploying a basic Plone site got a lot easier recently thanks to the folks at Enfold Systems. They have developed Ploud, a platform that allows users to create a Plone site in under a minute (or as it is written on the company’s web site, in 10 seconds). Ploud can be used by individuals, consultants and organizations to evaluate or deploy the Plone CMS without having to install any software. In addition to Plone's standard features, Ploud includes popular, trusted, add-ons for enhanced functionality like web forms, image rotation, calendaring, Facebook integration, and a choice of themes.



Ploud is free for basic usage. If later your site requirements grow in complexity or you need expanded support, you can easily migrate to a fee-based hosting platform.



Ploud is deployed using a high-availability VMware vCloud solution on multiple redundant SANs with redundant switch fabric. The facilities feature low-latency IP connections through multiple providers on enterprise Cisco routers and switches. The facility has 24×7 onsite security staffing with surveillance and access control and is SAS 70 Type II certified.



Ploud provides a valuable service to the Plone community by allowing anyone to quickly and easily create a free Plone site. It is currently in Beta status and Enfold Systems is soliciting feedback to help them improve the service. Give it a try!



Plone Welcomes New Contributors

Since the recent Plone Conference 2011 in San Francisco, we've seen an influx of new contributors sign up to add their code to Plone. We'd like to welcome the newest members of the contributors group and say how much we appreciate your deciding to be involved.



The latest contributors are:



Adam Cheasley

Adam Terrey

Aleksi Korvenranta

Alin Voinea

Andre Gustavo E Nogueira

Asko Soukka

Chris Thomas

Cleber J Santos

Daniel Marks

David Mote

Derrick Stone

Douwe uld Mey

Emanuel Sartor

Esa Matti Suuronen

Federico Marcelo Castro

Franco Pellegrini

Ghica Alexandru

Giacomo Spettoli

Gustavo A. Lepri

Heather Harter

João Sebastião de Oliveira Bueno

Jukka Ojaniemi

Kai Lautaportti

Kim Paulissen

Lukas Graf

Marco Martinez

Mark Corum

Michael Davis

Noe Nieto

Nuyens Andre

Philippe Gross

Richard Barrell

Richard Mitchell

Roberto Allende

Roman Susi

Ross Reedstrom

Thiago Tamo Sauskas

Tom Blockley

Tyler Randles

William Deegar



Chrissy Wainwright and Maurizio Delmonte Chosen Plone Foundation Members

The Plone Foundation Board of Directors has announced the selection of Chrissy Wainwright and Maurizio Delmonte as the newest members of the Plone Foundation.



Chrissy Wainwright is the Senior Template Developer at Six Feet Up, based in Indianapolis, Indiana (USA). She has implemented Plone themes for dozens of sites, including indianahistory.org, uvahealth.com, and sfari.org. She has taught Plone theming classes for several years, including the Plone Symposium East at PSU and the Plone Conference 2011 in San Francisco.



Maurizio Delmonte is a Plone consultant with Abstract Open Solutions in Potenza Picena, Italy. Part of the Plone community from the outset, he contributed the first italian translation of Plone, and still maintains the current version with the Plone Italian Translation Group.



You can find out more here - http://plone.org/news/new-foundation-members-wainwright-delmonte

Plone Symposium East Puts Out Calls for Speakers and Training

Plone Symposium East 2012 (PSE12) at Penn State University is just around the corner - May 22-23, 2012.



Speakers

Share your knowledge with the Plone and Zope communities at the Plone Symposium East 2012. Tell others about what you are doing. Teach others about your latest development. Show off your latest tools. Weblion has begun accepting proposal for Speaker sessions. Speaker slots fill up quickly and speakers get a reduced registration fee, so get your proposal in TODAY! Proposals will be accepted until March 12, 2012, so don't delay! Here is the link for proposing talks - http://weblion.psu.edu/symposium/session-proposal



Training

The folks at Weblion have put out the call for trainers who would like to hold training sessions in the two days prior to PSE - on May 20-21st. It is an opportunity to teach others how to be successful with open source. Interested trainers have time to submit their proposals between now and February 13. You can find out more about the proposals process by visiting http://weblion.psu.edu/symposium/training-proposal

Meet the Plone Editorial Team

We're happy to announce that a brand new group of writers and editors located around the world has stepped up to help make that news more up-to-date and global. The new Plone Editorial Team will oversee the writing and approval of news on Plone.org as part of our overall efforts to better market and communicate about our favorite CMS.



Jules Allen

Mark Corum

Jorge Gonçalves

Gustav Franzsen

Carol Ganz

Jean Jordaan

Sally Kleinfeldt

Rose Pruyne

Saba Resnick

Jon Stahl

Rijk Stofberg



You can find out more here - http://plone.org/news/plone-editorial-team-announced

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