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Good news: the first beta release of Plone 6 has arrived! The release manager for this version is Maurits van Rees.

Thank you to everyone involved!

Read more about the upcoming Plone 6.

Plone 6

Try Plone 6 Beta!

For installation instructions, see the documentation.

See Plone 6 in action at https://6.demo.plone.org/

Read more at the community forum:
https://community.plone.org/t/plone-6-beta-1-released/15485

Plone and the related family of technologies (Volto, Zope, Guillotina) are very strongly community-oriented.

Development often takes rapid leaps in sprints, which have been a defining characteristic of our history. Sponsorship allows more of these sprints to take place.

There are many options, starting from one-time payments to monthly subscriptions, and starting from as low as 5$.

In addition to supporting a good cause and helping Plone Foundation, you can have a shoutout at Twitter, a GitHub badge or your name listed at Plone.org.

Sponsoring Plone is very easy and you can do it at https://github.com/sponsors/plone

Thank you!

Download and installation: https://plone.org/download/releases/6.0.0a6

The sixth alpha release of Plone 6 contains various fixes and improvements. Read more about the upcoming Plone 6.

Thank you to everyone involved!

Plone 6

Try Plone 6 Alpha 6

Download and installation:
https://plone.org/download/releases/6.0.0a6

Read more at the community forum:
https://community.plone.org/t/plone-6-0-0a6-released/15401

Plone Conference 2022 takes place in Namur, Belgium on October 10-16, 2022.

We have now opened ticket sales, with early bird prices!

The topics at the conference range from Plone, Zope, Volto, and Guillotina to Python and Pyramid or from fancy JavaScript to cool case studies and beyond. Project management, process improvement, open-source, design, and community aspects are valued talk topics.

Get ready for the new Plone 6: the features, stability, scalability, and best-in-class security of an enterprise CMS, combined with a modern, easy-to-use, and powerful front end based on state-of-the-art web technologies.

Plone community is the most friendly open source community there is and always welcomes new people warmly.

Conference tickets include

• Access to two days of training sessions
• Access to three days conference
• 40+ presentations
• Interact with speakers, sponsors, and attendees
• Join the community sprints

Get your tickets!

More info

• https://2022.ploneconf.org
• Follow @ploneconf on Twitter

If you have any questions, please contact conf@plone.org, we are happy to help you!

This was the Buschenschanksprint 2022

After two years of working from home, sprinting remotely, and meeting via video conferences the Buschenschanksprint was for many the first occasion to see each other in person.

And meeting in person was amazing. We had many discussions, demos, and stand-ups which seemed just more effective than what we had over video conferences. Not that video conferences are ineffective, but it was high time to meet in person again.

The beautiful landscape of the "Südsteirische Weinstraße", the Buschenschankjause, and a glass of wine or two in the evening was also a fine thing to have.

We were at most 18 people directly at the sprint and two remote sprinters. The weather was fine, we could work outside and inside, on the terrace or in the arbor, depending on preference.

The space was big enough and the internet connection absolutely sufficient. We had some people in tents, 8 people in the "Ferienhaus List" and the rest at the Apartment "Sonnenberg".

For dinner, we went to nearby Buschenschenken, to a Restaurant, and did some BBQ ourselves.

This year Buschenschanksprint was a strategic sprint for the second time. We had a lot of plans for progressing Plone and related projects, and we did achieve a lot.

Progress during the sprint

Here is but a short list of headlines of sprint achievements.

To read the progress in full detail, check the community forum post: https://community.plone.org/t/this-was-the-buschenschanksprint-2022/15347

• Barceloneta LTS improvements
• Webpack Module Federation
• Documentation and Training
• Migrate to Volto
• Work was done on an automatic migration path from Classic UI to Volto.
• Relations in Volto
• Mosaic
• Datagridfield
• Images
• Mxdev/Mxmake
• YAFOWIL
• plone.api
• Control Panel User Group Membership in Volto
• Various other topics
• Future of Classic Plone discussion

Participants of the Buschenschanksprint

• Johannes Raggam (Organiser)
• Alessandro Pisa
• Manuel Reinhardt
• Robert Niederreiter
• Jens Klein
• Maik Derstappen
• Philipp Auersperg
• Guido Stevens
• Peter Mathis
• Christine Baumgartner
• Peter Holzer
• Markus Hilbert
• Alexander Pilz
• Maurits van Rees
• Philip Bauer
• Georg Bernhard
• Leo Auersperg
• Katja Süss
• Steve Piercy (Remote)
• Fred van Dijk (Remote)

That was the Buschenschanksprint. We're already looking forward to the next one!

Plone Conference 2022 takes place in Namur, Belgium on October 10-16, 2022. We have now opened call for papers, looking for all kinds of different talks related to Plone.

The topics can range from Plone, Zope, Volto, and Guillotina to Python and Pyramid or from fancy JavaScript to cool case studies and beyond. Project management, process improvement, open-source, design, and community aspects are valued talk topics. Plone 6 cases are of much interest this year.

There are many kinds of talk slots, from 5 min lightning talks to 30 and 45 minutes long, and you can target your talk to different audiences.

If you have any questions, please contact conf@plone.org. No matter if you are an experienced speaker or a beginner, we are happy to help you!

Submit your talk!

More info

• https://2022.ploneconf.org
• Follow @ploneconf on Twitter

At the Plone conference in Ferrara 2019, after a talk by Christine Baumgartner and her two interns Ilvy and Nils, a bunch of companies discussed the future of on-boarding of young people into IT. Three companies, Abstract, Interaktiv and Klein & Partner, followed up on the idea and looked for funding to improve IT on-boarding with focus on free and open source software companies.

After further meetings we decided to apply for an Erasmus Plus project of the European Commissison. We expanded the scope from internships only to the whole process of onboarding. With Talentbrücke (Cologne) we found a partner in the field of the transition from school to job; with International Formation Center (Madrid) a company specialized in designing and managing training and development programs.

At the Plone Tagung in Dresden, very shortly before the first COVID19 lockdowns in Europe, we prepared the first application, but it failed. After adjusting our strategy to a broader community, and with remote work in focus, the second application of our project got accepted. In March 2021 we had our kick off!

ITONBOARD's goal is to introduce young students to career paths in open source web development. With that goal in mind we are developing five distinct products to guide students from a gamified experience to first-hand experience in schools; from e-learning opportunities to internship options. Our target groups are students, teachers and IT companies. The project is still ongoing. Some of our five outcomes are almost finished, others are still in development:

1. an Escape Game for vocational orientation for students from 12 to 16 years old. Within the game, typical job situations and knowledge about IT professions can be experienced and acquired. Professions in web development as well as the concept of open source are presented to the players.
2. a guide for teachers with a detailed concept for a project week at schools on the topic of IT career orientation. The central and associated learning content and materials were designed during the course of the project so far.
3. online courses (MOOCs), which can be used as an alternative method of vocational orientation. The approach within e-learning formats is completely different from the classic and more theoretical information materials (flyers, texts, etc.).
4. recommendations and guidelines for blended remote internships with short on-site phases in companies whose focus is on community-based, open source culture. Remote work and learning have had deep roots in the IT industry, and especially in the open source area, for decades.
5. an internship exchange facilitating the arrangement of internships between interns and companies. For example, without the Plone Community the ITONBOARD project would never have happened. In the beginning the community was the initial backbone to discuss ideas.

We got in contact with other companies and collected their needs and experiences with interns, got lots of implicit information, personal feelings, and learned about failures and problems. In the Plone community we know each other and have many experts in different fields. Thus, many community members were keen to help with interviews, participating at workshops or reviewing material. Thanks to everyone donating their valuable time!

From the broader Plone community we interviewed Alexander Pilz (Syslab), Timo Stollenwerk (Kitconcept), Nejc Zupan (Niteo Web and project advisory board), Paul Roland (former president of the Plone Foundation and project advisory board) and Chrissy Wainwright (Sixfeetup and former president of the Plone Foundation) about their experience with internships and remote work. Furthermore we got valuable scientific insight into the field by our project advisory board member Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bernd Gössling (Uni Innsbruck). This gave us plenty of input for the blended remote internship guidelines and beyond!

From the community Katja Süss (Rohberg), Paul Roeland and Fred van Dijk (Zest Software) joined us at our multiplier event at the Schatzbergalm and provided valuable, decades long experience in remote work, teaching, diversity in IT and in general, and communities.

Additionally, Paul and Fred gave us a short interview. We also got support from other FOSS communities, here with a special mention of the OpenEDX community! And thanks to everyone we forgot to mention here, helping us with the project by sharing minds!

The project will continue for almost another year. We appreciate any feedback! If you want to learn more about ITONBOARD visit our website, send us an email or talk to Stefania, Christine, Jörg or Jens.

For 2022, the Plone Foundation has been granted *six* Google Summer of Code student project slots.

Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source organization on a months-long programming project starting over the summer.

After careful selection of the many project proposals presented, we are pleased to announce that the following students will be working on various aspects of Plone:

• Avi Mishra (Create New Volto Themes)
• Bhuvan R J (Recycle Bin)
• Rohit Singh (Workflow Manager)
• Marwan Atef (Passwordless Pluggable Authentication Service)
• Md Sahil (Undo Control Panel)
• Vijaya Agarwal (Bulk Editing Content)

Read more about their projects

To our new students: welcome to the Plone community - we wish you a great learning experience over the coming months. Congratulations!

Mentoring these students will be:

• Nilesh Gulia (former Plone GSoC student!)
• Jakob Kahl
• Mike Metcalfe
• Rob Gietema
• Andreas Jung
• Thomas Massmann
• T. Kim Nguyen

To our mentors: thank you for introducing new developers to open source and our community!

The most effective (and fun) ways to move things forward in Open Source development are sprints - after years of remote sprinting due to COVID, we were finally able to hold a sprint in two locations simultaneously, with more than 25 people around the community gathering together.

The Beethoven Sprint was held in Bonn, Germany, and Bucharest, Romania.

Sprint Topics

These were the topics that we worked on:

• Plone 6: github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/milestone/6
• Volto (Plone 6 Frontend) https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/issues/2703
• Integrate Slate Editor in Core https://github.com/plone/volto/issues/2167
• Plone 6 Control Panels https://github.com/plone/volto/issues/29
• Plone 6 Content Rules https://github.com/plone/volto/issues/10

Check the official sprint page for more details.

Bonn

Main goals were achieved, and we are now closer than ever to make Plone 6 a reality. The main blocker, Slate in core, is on its way. Other nice-to-have features to be included in Plone 6 include:

• "base_view" default for custom view-less content types
• initial iteration of the core Block Style Wrapper
• extensive work on the new images srcset for frontends
• initial design of the infrastructure to support them on the backend
• rethought and refactored user and groups control panel
• migrations, classic-to-Slate, draftJS-to-Slate, classic-to-Volto in general
• DnD support for nested structures
• Schema driven stock Blocks support
• Containers for backend and frontend, nightly for buildout.coredev
• and fixed tons of bugs...

just to name the most important... the PR list is huge!

Thanks to: Andrea Cecchi, Balazs Ree, Bernd Wolber, Érico Andrei, Fred van Dijk, Ion Lizarazu, Jakob Kahl, Jens Klein, Katja Süss, Maurits van Rees, Mikel Larreategi, Philip Bauer, Piero Nicolli, Rob Gietema, Steffen Ring, Thomas Kindermann, Timo Stollenwerk, and Victor Fernandez de Alba

Bucharest

The Plone Beethoven 2022 sprint "two legs" summary from Romania:

• The first Plone sprint ever organized in Romania!
• Around 12 attendees in Bucharest and a few more remote from all over Romania
• Thanks to Maik Derstappen for joining us so we can call it an international sprint 🙂
• Facts: youngest Plone contributor for the sprint: 18 year old Ionuț Dobriceanu. Contributions merged!
  
  • https://github.com/plone/volto/pull/3316
  • https://github.com/plone/volto/pull/3319
    
    

Achievements:

• volto-slate editor being merged into Plone6/Volto core advanced integration
• "URL management"/"Aliases" control panel and contextual implemented for both backend and frontend
• "Content rules" control panel and contextual implemented for the backend (API endpoints)
• "Link Integrity for content objects" for Plone6 frontend implemented
• ... and a couple of other generic issues solved!

Thanks to: Valentina Bălan, Laszlo Cseh, Maik Derstappen, Ionuț Dobriceanu, Valentin Dumitru, Krisztina Elekes, Alec Ghica, Andrei Grigore, David Ichim, Tiberiu Ichim, Răzvan Miu, Daniela Mormocea, Iulian Petcheși, and Alin Voinea.

Also, check out The Plone Newsroom podcast episode 8, where Philip, Fred and Victor talk about the Beethoven sprint, Plone 6 and Volto 16: https://plone.org/news/2022/the-plone-newsroom-podcast-episode-08

Upcoming sprints

Do you want to join the effort or meet new people? The friendly Plone community welcomes you to sprints this May:

• https://plone.org/events/sprints/buschenschanksprint-2022
• https://plone.org/events/sprints/plone-org-renewal-to-plone-6-may20-2022
• https://plone.org/events/sprints/cerrado-sprint-2022

Some highlights of this release

• Zope: Enhance cookie support. For details, see issue 1010
  For more changes see Change log - Zope documentation 4.6 documentation
• waitress is updated to version 2.1.1 to mitigate a vulnerability in that package. As waitress no longer supports Python versions less than 3.7 it is not advised to run Plone 5.2 on Python 2.7 or 3.6 any longer, even though they are still supported by Plone itself. You get an older waitress version then. If you must use an old Python version, please switch to a different WSGI server. See the recommendations in the Zope documentation.
• WARNING: the new waitress 2.1.1 does seem to suffer from a possible race condition leading to the process quitting. If you are affected by this, you can downgrade to 2.1.0 (which has a known security vulnerability, as mentioned above) or use a different WSGI server.
• plone.app.linkintegrity: Track link integrity of referenced PDFs and other site objects in IFRAME SRC references.
• plone.outputfilters: Resolve UIDs in SRC attribute of of SOURCE and IFRAME elements.
• plone.app.querystring: Add lazy attribute to vocabularies to prevent fetching any results.
• plone.schema: Use indent in json.dumps to make JSON readable in the widget.

Download Plone 5.2.8

• plone.org release page: https://plone.org/download/releases/5.2.8
• community announcement: https://community.plone.org/t/plone-5-2-8-released/15266
• dist.plone.org with the versions, constraints, etcetera: https://dist.plone.org/release/5.2.8/

The Plone Newsroom is a monthly podcast brought to you by Philip Bauer and Fred van Dijk. They cover technical and non-technical topics including Plone, the Plone community, and whatever else they come up with to keep us informed!

Episode #08 on 12 May 2022 was all about Plone sprints - sprints in general and the recent Beethoven sprint in particular, which took place simultaneously in Bonn and Bucharest. It focused on the Volto 16 frontend that is coming in Plone 6. Philip, Fred and special guest Victor Fernandez de Alba discussed what got accomplished and what is planned after Volto 16. Go to the Newsroom page to view other episodes.

World Plone Day is an opportunity for members of the Plone community to celebrate and promote their favorite open source CMS. The 2022 event took place on April 27th and featured in-person events plus streaming and recorded content. There were:

• 58 talks on a wide range of topics from beginner to advanced
• 20 hours of video in 10 languages from 14 countries
• 6 local events - in Italy, Brazil, India, Switzerland, and 2 in Romania

There were talks from long-time community members and from people who are relative newcomers. Here are a few highlights for a general audience:

• What is Plone?
• Preview of Plone Conference 2022
• Plone's Google Summer of Code Program
• Welcome to Plone 6
• Plone Shorts: Searching and Organizing Content
• Permission to Come Aboard, New Plone User

Here are some highlights for developers:

• Casual Introduction to Plone 6 Classic
• Plone 6 Volto's Seamless Mode
• PloneGov - Securing the Most Secure CMS

And here are a few of the many talks in languages other than English:

• PloneGovBrazil Panel (in Brazilian Portuguese)
• Websites for Municipalities (in French)
• Three hours of talks in Italian!

You can find all the World Plone Day videos, and much more on the PloneCMS YouTube channel and the WPD 2022 playlist.

The New Plone.org Will Be Plone 6

At the 2021 Plone Conference, the marketing team presented a plan was for how to improve and renew plone.org, the one and only place for Plone-related information:

• https://2021.ploneconf.org/schedule/the-new-plone-org-built-on-plone-6
• https://www.slideshare.net/rioksane/the-new-ploneorg-built-on-plone-6-250557521

The main ideas at the time were:

• Plone.org will be migrated to Plone 6
• Content needs refreshing, especially the frontpage and main landing pages
• Visual theme will be out-of-the-box Plone 6 with Volto frontend, using available add-ons (many of which we expect will be added as core features)
• Goal is to publish the new site by World Plone Day 2022 (April).

Great Progress at Sprints

Since December 2022, we have organized 4 monthly sprints, working on:

• Content and navigation structure
• Other content work
• Migration from Plone 5 to Plone 6
• Visual design
• Translation, default page content, add-ons
• Plone 6 documentation
• Volto improvements
• Volto Blocks and installation
• And more

We have updated the original plan to include a new visual theme and additional features that will eventually be available for others to use. A more ambitious scope has moved the release date somewhat further this year.

Special Thanks

The Plone Marketing and Communications Team is organizing the effort and working on the content overhaul, but we also want to express special thanks to:

• Philip Bauer, from Starzel.de - Full content migration from Plone 5 to Plone 6, including the transition to Volto blocks
• Érico Andrei, from Kitconcept - Foundation Member content type, installation, deployment, content type renewal, etc.
• Steve Piercy and Katja Süss - Documentation effort resulting in new Plone 6 docs and organization around the work
• Massimo Azzolini, Irene Capatti, Massimo Weigert, and Gianantonio Vecelli, from Giallocobalto - For massive content and structure redesign, visual design and layout, and UX design
• Stefano Marchetti, Andrea Cecchi, Giulia Ghisini, and Andrea Baglioni, from Redturtle - For the new site's buildout which includes needed Volto blocks, curated add-ons, visual theme, and more: https://github.com/collective/volto-plone-org
• Kim Nguyen, Brian Davis - For lessons learned from the previous renewal, content and structure discussion, theming mockups, etc.
• Victor Fernandez de Alba and Jakob Kahl - For Volto knowledge
• And everyone else who has pitched in ideas, discussions, and questions!

This effort would not be possible without help from the awesome Plone community!

Want to Join the Effort?

The plone.org work is not done - our next sprint will be organized in May 2022. Feel free to join! There will be an event page, but meanwhile join the plone.org Discord channel for discussion. By the next sprint we hope to have a fully running site with migrated content available online for testing and content work.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact marketing@plone.org.

Stay tuned for more plone.org discussions and presentations at World Plone Day on April 27th 2022.

The Plone Newsroom is a monthly podcast brought to you by Philip Bauer and Fred van Dijk. They cover technical and non-technical topics including Plone, the Plone community, and whatever else they come up with to keep us informed!

Episode #07 on 13 April 2022 featured news about the progress towards the Plone 6 Classic release, updates about Volto 15 development, and information about events (GSoC, World Plone Day, sprints (Zope, Beethoven, Buschenschank), and add-ons (collective.easyform, collective.honeypot and captcha). Go to the Newsroom page to view other episodes.

Download and installation: https://plone.org/download/releases/6.0.0a4

The fourth alpha release of Plone 6 contains various fixes and improvements. Read more about the upcoming Plone 6.

Thank you to everyone involved!

Plone 6

Try Plone 6 Alpha 4

Download and installation:
https://plone.org/download/releases/6.0.0a4

Read more at the community forum:
https://community.plone.org/t/plone-6-0-0a4-released/15126