Lightning talks Friday

Fred: Sprint introduction

This weekend we have the sprint. This is a happy get-together where we talk and code and organise ourselves. Maybe you can get started with the Seven project (codename for the new Volto version). But basically you can work on anything, Plone or not. We start at 9. There is a stand-up at 10 o' clock, and wrap-up around 17.

See the sprint doc where you can add your name if you want to participate.

See also the #sprint channel on Discord.

Mari: Casseroles and the Finnish welfare state

Finnish cuisine has a reputation for being simple, even on festive occasions. Rutabaga casserole dates back to 1700s. Those were harsh times for Finland: crop failures, famine, plauge, wars. Casserole was the best we could get. It got better with the potate revolution (1800s). The potato improved food security. Early 1900s: urbanization and emerging middle class. They could have left the rutabaga behind, and follow higher classes of other countries. But the casseroles symbolize the "good old times" and a shared history. Starting at 1950, more women leave their homes, so dishes need to be simpler, more convenient. The welfare society takes shape.

Martin: Membership

Who here is not a Plone Foundation member. Have you attended more than two conferences? Have you organised a conference? Then you should become a member, come on! Fill in the application.

Timo: vibe coding and AI-assisted development

I started getting into electronics and Raspberry PI, with ChatGPT 4. With my son we got a Pico Go. He wants results in five minutes, an app on his phone. Trying ChatGPT and Claude. My son created a website that way. Think like a programmer: I told it to use Bootstrap as it is a good basis. And then I thought of another pet project: get Plone contributor statistics, to see how many PR and commits people have created during the years. I used Claude Code for this, created something in two evenings. Then used this for a Plone multi core setup. https://github.com/kitconcept/solr-multicore

Jakob: Beethovensprint

Let meintroduce a music group from my home town. Alien Fight Club. Their gitarist is Kolja. He also takes pictures, for example at Beethovensprints.

Beethovensprint 18-22 May 2026. Afterwards FedCon from 22-24 May, also in Bonn.

The week after is Buschenschanksprint

Erico: Volto image editor

Demo in Volto. Very nice!

Erico: State of Plone Typing

There are more than 10,000 project on PyPI that claim to use typing. It helps to know and document what you are doing. Frontend uses similar things. In the backend: see type hints in for example plone.exportimport. And we are being bullied, popular IDEs complain when we don't have them.

Plone includes 30 years of code, even from before the datetime library existed. And 170 and more different packages. I suggest creating plone-stubs as library so we can start slowly edit types to places. I have a proof of concept.

Alex Pilz: How to attract young talent.

Thank you Jyväskylä for a wonderful Plone Conference 2025. The young people I took here, got a good experience of the community. I am from Syslab, Munich, Germany. We have been using Plone for a long time. We have never organised a conference. Munich is a nice place. But we will not host the Plone conference there. We have found a nice place, where I have found the love of my life: Maastricht, the Netherlands. 21-27 September.

Karel Calitz: It's okay to talk about yourself and feel good about it.

In my twenties I joined a Big Brother Big Sister organisation, where you become a big brother or big sister to a kid who had less luck in family. We had to talk about feelings there.

I did not like talking about myself, my projects, sharing my work. For my website I had to make a shift to talk about it. Studies show you gain confidence by talking about yourself. Putting it into practice: share your work without apology, celebrate small wins, practice self-compassion, let pride fuel confidence for the next challenge. Open source depends on people who want to share their work and talk about it.

Naomi Woods: Sala Secure Oy

I work at the university here. The future of authentication is inclusive. A cyber security expert can use a secure VPN, an MFA, etc, but can their mother use that, or will she just re-use her passwords? Traditional MFA is too complex for many users. Our solution: SalaLogin. Authenticate with biometrics to their own device. Not many secret keys to remember. In our tests, people enjoy using it. We are looking for pilot and first customers. Can you help?

See https://salasecure.com

Astrid: Meeting

Possibly, January 2026, let's meet in Stellenbosch in South Africa. A bit less code-y and more strategic, get some momentum for the year there. Let us know if you are interested.

Sally: Plone Add-on competition

41 Plone add-ons were nominated this week.

• 3rd place, 4 votes: collective.easyform, and "a boy got hero block" (please tell me what this is)
• 2nd place, 5 votes: volto-form-block including volto.formsupport
• 1st place, 6 votes: collective.exportimport

Photo competition

Winner is Jeremy, with the most-liked non-AI photo.

And see you at the sprints tomorrow.