In the Media
Plone Featured in "How to Sponsor an Open Source Sprint"
The Plone community is featured prominently in an IT World article about open source sprints that includes interviews with Plone Foundation president Jon Stahl and PloneFormGen creator Steve McMahon.
Plone Shows Strength in Open Source CMS Comparison Report
Idealware, who provides objective research on software for nonprofit organizations, just released its “Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems”. This independent study provides a detailed evaluation of Plone, Drupal, Joomla!, and Wordpress. It addresses 12 characteristics ranging from structural flexibility, to ease of learning, to community strength.
CMSWire: State of Plone
CMSWire provides a nice high level overview of Plone as of May 2009: "The Plone project has reached new levels of maturity."
CMS Wire: Multi-site Management with Drupal, Plone and Joomla!
CMS Wire took a look at the multi-site management capabilities of three of the most popular open source web content management systems and found that Plone may just be the most capable.
Brazilian government lists preferred Open Source applications
The Brazilian government wants its public administrations to check an Open Source reference guide before launching new IT projects. This moves taken by the Government of the 5th world economy, confirms Brazilian leadership and long term commitment on open source software. As an example, SERPRO, the main IT solution provider for the Brazilian Government, is actively using Plone and Zope as its primary Portal construction tool for Government Web Content Management Solutions.
Building E-commerce on Plone with GetPaid
GetPaid for Plone featured in Python Magazine
Plone makes Econtent 100 List for 2008
Plone is among the 100 Most Important Companies in the digital industry in 2008, according to E-Content magazine.
Folio: The Content Management Dilemna - Good time to revisit the open source CMS
Discover Magazine's CEO Henry Donahue writes of his experience with Plone as the foundational element of Discover's fast growing web properties.
Python Shows Continual Growth in Open Source Projects
Python is Plone programing language. It is a mature, flexible language that allows developers to concentrate on business solutions rather than technology problems, and has shown continual growth over the past decade.
Plone Wins Packt Publishing's 2008 "Best Other Open-Source CMS" Award
Plone was named best non-PHP-based open-source CMS by Packt Publishing, winning a $2000 award for the Plone Foundation.
CNET: Virginia city goes open source with Plone
Using the Plone content management system, the system is designed for governments to install, out of the box, a website which also includes specialized departmental infrastructure.
PloneGov: Health Atlas Ireland wins the Irish Public Service Excellence Award 2008
Health Atlas Ireland is an open source application developed to bring health related datasets, statistical tools and GIS together in a web environment to add value to existing health data. The application is part of the PloneGov project, an international Plone based egovernment collaborative initiative.
PloneGov: Newport News wins the 2008 Havlick award
Newport News, a 180.000 inhabitants city of Virginia (USA), is the leader of the Open e-Gov open source project, one of PloneGov subcommunities. Following Paris, Lisbon, Brussels and Dublin, this new award becomes the 5th nomination in less than a year for the PloneGov initiative and collaborating Public Organizations.
Kent Connects Project makes final four in Innovation Awards
The Kent Connects 'Portal of Portals' project has been shortlisted in the final four in the category of Best Government to Government Project in this year's GC Awards for Innovation.
PBS Idealab: New Option in Media Publishing
Talks about Plone and the add-on Plumi, which provides media publishing services for Plone.
eWeek: Social Networks Close at Hand
eWeek points out that Plone is a great platform for building "Web 2.0" deployments
Plone Foundation Sets Open Source Standards
The Plone Foundation's work to secure Plone's brand identity and place it in neutral community ownership sets Plone apart from many open-source communities.
PloneGov : Bringing Plone to Local Governements
Plone is one of the best known Free Software Content Management Systems (CMS) in the market. Much of the importance of Plone lies in its power and flexibility, enabling it to be applied in a wide variety of contexts.
PloneGov wins a prestigious open source project award in Paris
We are proud to announce that the new Plone e-government initiative won the biggest French award for open source projects on June 13 during a ceremony held in the town hall of the city of Paris. This award, called "Grand prix du jury des Lutèce d'Or 2007", demonstrates PloneGov work quality and encourages us to continue on this way.
PloneGov selected finalist of the European e-Government Awards
PloneGov is selected among the 52 best European e-Government projects, and is invited to present the project at the fourth Ministerial eGovernment Conference held in Lisbon in September 2007. PloneGov projects relies on 2 renowned open source software : Plone and Zope. Its success results from a close collaboration between public organizations and Zea Partners, an international network of SME building Zope and Plone solutions.