Day 1 (Plone Conference 2008 Notes)

"Feed The Masses" by Paul Bugni

• Vice - add-on product for plone
• syndication formats
• RSS 2.0(most popular) and Atom 1.0
• Existing implementation only does RSS 1.0
• no enclosers(no media)
• PLIP #128
• integrate RSS 2.0 and atom
• Vice
• born at BBQ sprint
• pulled by basesyndication and fatsyndication
• summer of code project
• Install
• vice.plone.outbound in eggs and zcml
• add fake_zope_eggs = true
• configlet -> enable syndication
• syndication tab on content
• Components
• view, content, adapter, utility
• web component development with zope 3 - book
• Concepts
• containers
• folders are feedable
• content objects
• feed items
• IFeed - feed
• Syndicate New Type
• must be adapatable to IFeedItem
• Vice sprint
• not stable yet!!!
• PLIP'd be to included in Plone 4

 "Running a small business with plone" by Sally Kleinfeldt

• jazkarta
• income from plone based products services
• no traditional bricks and mortar
• use google apps(gmail, chat, calendar, docs, sites, etc) - free
• rich api
• embed google form on plone page
• import google calendar into plone
• Plone
• host on amazon ec2
• buildout and fabric for deployment
• Data.fs and Apache logs use Elastic Block Storage
• backups use S3 storage
• 5 virtual services: Apache/pound/varnish, 3 zope clients, zeo server
• CRM - Salesforce
• powerful api to promote integration
• manage contacts, leads, accounts, campaigns and bus oppurtunities
• google integration(gmail, docs, adwords), PayPal and vertical Response
• Plone
• Salesforce connector
• ploneformgen
• salesForceAdapter(for plone form gen)
• Plone, SalesForce - VR
• plone capture response
• data goes to salesForce lead
• add leads to campaign
• send targeted info to leads
• Clue Mapper
• supercharged trac
• project management
• hosted on EC2
• personal dashboard
• ajax ui
• lightning talk today
• Future
• integrate 3rd party time tracking products
• Harvest
• SlimTimer
• Integrate with QuickBooks
• PON CMS

"Ecommerce in Plone: Surveying the state-of-the-art" by Christopher Johnson

• Get Paid
• allows you to take payments on plone site
• no AT
• no content
• meant to be extended
• 11k lines of code
• fairly large community
• 9 languages
• Marker Interfaces
• buyable
• donation
• shippable
• premium content
• features
• shopping cart
• checkout wizard
• payment processor
• order management
• extensions
• ups
• formgen
• report
• discount
• salesforce
• warehouse
• store
• payment processors
• google checkout
• paypal
• others
• recipe to install
• tinyurl.com/getpaidstore
• add-ons
• make my own buyable content
• mark CT with IBuyableMarker
• tinyurl.com/getpaid-content-doc
• memberships
• downloadable
• plone.getpaid.com

"With Software As A Service, Is Only The Network Luddite Free?" by Bradley M. Kuhn

• distributed computing
• Evan Prodromou's identif.ca (laconi.ca)
• Microblogging
• Jesse Vincent's Prophet
• Plone - make it easier for devs to respect freedom
• Affero GPL
• Extends copyleft to network service world
• handles the code side well
• Data is downloadable in community-chunks
• data belongs to user; we are their custodians
• http://autonomo.us

Lightning Talks

• KaizenPlone
• learning plone help
• too many things/ways to do things
• Page per problem
• paragraph per solution
• vote for most used solution
• formal and informal...
• atomisator
• data framework
• process data... any
• process
• get data from db, internet
• reader
• filter
• enhancers
• output
• feed
• chart
• email
• Nate Aune - Clue Mapper
• project management tool
• extension of trac
• personal dashboard
• time tracking/reporting
• dojo ajax
• wsgi(wizge)
• does have screencast
• cluemapper.org
• #cluemapper
• The PyPi Replication Project
• buildouts is PyPi dependent
• if pypi is down, you're screwed
• z3c.pypimirror
• mirror pypi on local machine
• going live with 3-4 mirrors next month
• needs servers(w/ reliable connection and availability)
• diskspace(5-10gig)
• bandwidth( < 50Gig/month)
• Mass deploy
• Root navigation interface
• apply INavigationRoot interface to ploy
• martin created collective.microsite
• set skins on sites
• answers problem for deploying hundreds of sites
• november deployment buildout conference
• ui advancements
• reduce difference of logged in view to non-logged in view
• actually remove edit bar/change look
• pretty sweet stuff
• may see it in the collective soon
• gloworm!!!!
• inspect any page to find viewlets and page templates that apply to them
• easily rearrange viewlets
  
• really sweet