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Not fading away: A tale about a 20-year old Pyt...

Not fading away: A tale about a 20-year old Python project

The Plone CMS is one of the oldest, and most successful open-source stories of the Python community. Created by Alex Limi and Alan Runyan in 1999 to be a better UI for Zope, the project grew to be a very stable and secure solution, used by governments, corporations and NGO's to power their public sites and intranets. The community surrounding Plone has been the key to keeping the project alive. This talk will focus on the community itself, and how meeting technical and organizational challenges it has adapted and evolved to avoid fading away.

(Presented at the PyCon SE 2021 on 2021-10-21)
Video available at https://youtu.be/5EWHYxnOTyQ

Érico Andrei

October 21, 2021
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  1. Érico Andrei | @ericof | [email protected] | plone.org Not fading

    away A tale about a 20-year old Python project Érico Andrei Vice President, Plone Foundation [email protected] | @ericof
  2. Érico Andrei | @ericof | [email protected] | plone.org Érico Andrei

    Brazilian, living in Berlin Open Source Python Software Foundation Fellow Vice-President Plone Foundation Past Microsoft, Simples Consultoria, Rocket Internet, Pendect
  3. Érico Andrei | @ericof | [email protected] | plone.org The Code

    Started by Alan Runyan, Alexander Limi, Vidar Andersen in 1999 Named after Plone, the band First release in October 4th, 2001 How it started: A nice UI for CMF Zope) How is it going: The Python CMS
  4. Érico Andrei | @ericof | [email protected] | plone.org The People

    An online community, chatting on IRC Interest in usability, user experience Adopted the Sprint-culture, worldwide Conferences: Where online → offline
  5. Érico Andrei | @ericof | [email protected] | plone.org The Structure

    Plone Foundation: A 501(c)(3 nonprofit organization Protect and Promote Plone Manage Plone intellectual property Codebase contributions: Contributor agreement Coordinate marketing, raise funds to the community
  6. Érico Andrei | @ericof | [email protected] | plone.org Technology evolves

    CVS -> SVN -> GIT Servers → VMs → Cloud / Multi-Cloud / Serverless Monolith → Packages → Multi-language Packages Browser in a Desktop → Content everywhere CMS is King → CMS is commodity
  7. Érico Andrei | @ericof | [email protected] | plone.org From monolith

    to packages Packaging: One big file → ~130 packages CMFPlone → Products.CMFPlone Products.CMFPlone → plone.*, plone.app.* Slow gradual changes Consistent upgrade story Support for older versions (>5 years)
  8. Érico Andrei | @ericof | [email protected] | plone.org Lowered the

    entry barrier Standard tools Git, pip, Docker "Hide" 20 years of legacy code Facade pattern via plone.api Support any client / device A core REST API Plone 6 will ship with a React frontend
  9. Érico Andrei | @ericof | [email protected] | plone.org Community evolves

    Small group → Global group Developers → Developers, Designers, Editors, Users IRC, Mailing Lists → Discourse, Slack, Discord "Lottery factor"
  10. Érico Andrei | @ericof | [email protected] | plone.org Embrace change

    Community members are human-beings Career and life choices → 8 years contribution time Renewal cycle Welcome → Empower→ Handle the keys Not everyone is a developer Teams focused on different parts of the project
  11. Érico Andrei | @ericof | [email protected] | plone.org People >

    Technology Build real connections Sprints, Conferences, Karaoke Recognize achievements Small contributions lead to long time contributors Act Local Not everyone speaks English / can travel Enforce community standards
  12. Érico Andrei | @ericof | [email protected] | plone.org Elizabeth Leddy

    PyCon CA 2012 Cris Ewing PyCon US 2016 Alexander Loechel PyConWeb 2017