The Plone Newsroom

The unofficial Plone Podcast

A monthly podcast about Plone, the Plone community and whatever we come up with to keep you informed. We will do our best to release a new recording at the beginning of each month.

Brought to you by Philip Bauer and Fred van Dijk

Suggest a topic to us to include in the next episode by sending us an e-mail to one of our first names 'at' plone dot org. We record our podcast with video and audio, you can find links to our episodes on Youtube, but we also provide an audio version on Apple Podcasts and host the audio files on ACast.

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Episode #05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcUV1TD34tc - 69 min. Recorded 2022-01-21

Audio only: Coming soon...
(or search for Plone in the Acast or Apple Podcasts apps)

Topics:

News:
- State of Plone 6 and Plone 6 Classic Development
Feature: Page Composition Tools:
- plone.app.mosaic. ES6 merge-request https://github.com/plone/plone.app.mosaic/pull/482
- collective.cover. Plone 6 merge-request: https://github.com/collective/collective.cover/pull/900
- collective.contentsections: https://github.com/collective/collective.contentsections
- collective.modules: https://github.com/starzel/collective.modules
- a lot of older addons: Collage, CMFContentPanels, ContentWellPortlets...
News:
- Plone.org Relaunch sprint report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dZOPJmFhzBeCGJlCNLkq1BDIMhpGpXLG4Lk9_QMkiOo
- Pone 6 Documentation sprint: https://community.plone.org/t/plone-6-documentation-ready-for-contributions/14741, https://6-dev-docs.plone.org/
- GSOC Ideas: https://community.plone.org/t/gsoc-2022-brainstorming/14690
Other/Add-ons:
- collective.easyformplugin.registration: https://github.com/collective/collective.easyformplugin.registration

Episode #04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcUV1TD34tc - 69 min. Recorded 2021-12-10

Audio only: https://play.acast.com/s/the-plone-newsroom/tpn-episode-4
(or search for Plone in the Acast or Apple Podcasts apps)

Features:

Plone.org Relaunch
- Migration with collective.exportimport
- View @@import_all: https://github.com/plone/plone.org/blob/main/backend/src/ploneorg.core/src/ploneorg/core/browser/import.py#L21
Demo-ing Plone 6 alpha and how to install some add'ons by using the new plone.org git repo
- backend: (https://github.com/plone/plone.org), backend directory
  - pip install Plone
  - Uses of mxdev prototype to build/update config: (Uses of mxdev prototype to build/update config: (https://community.plone.org/t/our-pip-based-development-workflow-for-plone)
- frontend: (https://github.com/plone/plone.org) frontend directory
  - How to add Volto addons
  - volto-slate,
  - volto-blocks-grid
  - table block & teaser block get pulled in by the above add'ons
News:
- Plone 6.0.0a2 released
- Board of Directors of Plone Foundation
- Plone Conference Talks on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGN9BI-OAQkQDLQinBwdEXpebDTQCwdGi
- Plone Shop with Plone Conference Shirts noir edition
- Max Jakob
Other/Add-ons:
- collective.taxonomy: new features
- collective.revisionmanager
- collective.impersonate
- plone.pdfexport

Episode #03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcUV1TD34tc - 46 min. Recorded 2021-11-11

Audio only: https://play.acast.com/s/the-plone-newsroom/tpn-episode-3

Features:

The Plone Conference (https://2021.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks)
- Noteworthy talks
- Plone the Product vs Plone the Framework
The Plone Fanzone in Sorrento Italy
Plone 6 Development Status
Follow up on mentionned add'ons, collective.taxonomy
Quick mention of volto-eea-kitkat