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Winners of O'Reilly's COMDEX Contest Anounced

Posted by Cliff on from the congratulations dept.

Alexander Limi writes: "The winners of the O'Reilly "Open Source Goes to COMDEX" Contest have been announced. The lucky ones are: GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice, Zope, GIMP and our own project, Plone. Congratulations to all the deserving projects! Check out the announcement here."

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  1. Zope wins twice by PineHall · · Score: 4, Informative

    Plone is built on Zope, so Zope really wins twice.

  2. Re:Number of votes? by bhtooefr · · Score: 3, Informative

    You had to sign up for a (free) O'Reilly account. You could only vote for 3. I voted for KDE, OOo, and GIMP...

  3. You are missing an important distinction... by supton · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...that Plone's UI (esp. in 2.0 beta) is modular. It is Section 508 and W3C WAI compliant. It also can be rendered on mobile-phones, large-format, and presentation/print CSS devices without need for ANY changes to the HTML output or multiple sets of templates. From an architecture and extensibility standpoint, Plone's UI is really best-in-class. It also has the largest and most diverse audience and user-base of any open-source CMS, as well as formal standards for process improvement (the PLIP process), which definitely aides in the UI development/refinement process.

  4. Why is GNOME before KDE in the list? by jokkebk · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is it just me, or did anybode else wonder the order of the winners in the story?

    I mean, it isn't alphabetical, it isn't ordered by the amount of votes. Mentioning Plone last because it has a comment attached is reasonable, but moving GNOME from the bottom of the list in front of KDE and preserving the order otherwise was odd.

    The first thought that occurred to me was "so, the GNOME seems to have beaten KDE", so I was slightly surprised when I read the O'Reilly announcement.

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  5. Actually, Plone excells at this... by supton · · Score: 2, Informative

    Plone obviously scales well, but is also very easy to use for quickly getting started with small-group content management. Consider this:

    • Plone is easy to install - get Andy McKay's Win32 installer or Jim Roepcke's Mac OS X installer Get 'em here and you will be up and running in 10 minutes with a Plone site pre-configured by the installer. Also you can get RPM or DEB packages.
    • Default workflow and content types let you hit the road running: you have documents, news items, events, images, etc.
    • Customization examples are available - Andy's ZopeZen skin is available in the collective - a good example of doing a weblog-style site in Plone.
    • Plenty of add ons mean less code you have to write: check out the collective project on sf.net, mentioned above.
    • Membership and security is built-in - you could do complex stuff like authenticate off of mysql or LDAP, but the default user-folder (and upcoming group support in Plone 2.0) system is capable and easy to work with without the fuss or worry.
    • Simple workflows can be changed through the web; you want to do a google search for "CMF workflow just publish" - or better yet, just grant your small group publish abilities, and let them choose to do it. If you want to hack the edit script, one line of code would trigger the publish workflow transition, if you want to save some clicks. The point is that this is very customizable, and on the other end of the spectrum, you can do things like email notification in your workflow scripts with a bit of cut and pasting some stock code.
    • Recipes abound on zopelabs.org under the CMF category
    • With Plone 2.0, you can seriously customize the UI without changing the templates, just by haing and admin change values ina web form that are plugged into dynamically generated CSS.
    • One of the most supportive mailing lists and IRC (#plone on irc.freenode.net) channels on the planet.
  6. Re:Innovation by Malcontent · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is nothing wrong with trying to get OSS replacements for commercial software. MS has "embraced" all kinds of innovations from it's competitors for years now.

    Are you really suggesting that OSS should not have an office suite or a GUI because someone else thought of it first?

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  7. Re:KDE vs GNOME by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    gnomedesktop is a lot more fun. There are regular user v developer battles fought in the stories, and plenty of criticism of GNOME and its direction... all very healthy. And you end up learning plenty.

    Compare this with dot.kde.org -- the userbase is sycophantic and rabid... and the admin of the site actively deletes anything critical of KDE, its direction or current implementation.

  8. Slashdot in Plone? Done! by axxackall · · Score: 3, Informative
    Can we have Slashdot in Plone now please?

    Done, it's called Zope Zen.

    Seriously though, it would make a great CMS migration case study

    Speaking about case studies, check available docs, alive borads and screenshots for NeoBoard and CMFBoard. As you can see - both are developing in the same direction (kind of mixing Slashdot and PHPBB ideas), and both have already achived very similar quality and functionality levels, dispite the fact that CMFBoard was mostly developed from scratch (although under strong influence of many ideas from other available boards), while NeoBoard was re-written from PHP to Plone by the original PHP developer of the original PHP-based NeoBoard.

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