1. Plone Group 6 Wilson Luk Wing Yeung Chum Keiwu Su

2. Agenda of Presentation What is Plone? Main Features Why Plone? Demos Summary

3. What is Plone? Content management system Built on top of Zope Written in Python Open source Technology neutral

4. Main Features Separates content from presentation Intelligent search and indexing Source control inherit from Zope Built-in Security inherited from Zope ArchGenXML (Auto Code Generation) Many add-ons from www.plone.orgwww.plone.org

5. Main Features Built-in Security inherited from Zope

6. Main Features Source Control inherit from Zope

7. Main Features Photo Album

8. Why Plone? Easy to install –http://www.plone.org Easy to use Open source Extensible “Official reason” –http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web- app.mov (why choose plone over J2EE, Ruby on Rails etc)http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web- app.mov

9. Accessing Plone Click on the plone icon Then to Zope Management Interface…

10. Accessing Plone Then…

11. Why Plone? Easy to install –http://www.plone.org Easy to use Open source Extensible “Official reason” –http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web- app.mov (why choose plone over J2EE, Ruby on Rails etc)http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web- app.mov

12. Demos Installation Workflow control Slot / Portlets Template External Script Add-on Product (Code Auto Generation)

13. Summary Plone is useful for … –small organizations that don’t employ a full-time Webmaster can be one of the key beneficiaries of such a system. Plone is excellent for solving … –Websites that requires very frequent updates, by multiple users

14. Summary Cont’d Plone is cool because … –Flexible and customizable Plone’s surprising features … –ArchGenXML (Auto code generation)