Lightning talks Wednesday

Mari: Finnish

I study Finnish language at the university here.

Today's lesson: the pivotal 'No niin' for beginners. It can mean: OK, let's go, or meh. It depends on the innotation.

Martin Peeters: Board elections

There are only two nominations for the three seats that open in the board. So no elections this year for now. But you have time until midnight to send your nomination on the website. Contact me if you need help

Erico: State of State

These are some of the talks of today:

• Keynote: State of Plone
• State of Plone 6 backend
• State of Plone restapi
• State and direction of Plone community IT

Come on, we need better talk names!

But this is a community of people who step up and actually do things. You are all invited to my talk, over here, tomorrow 3 pm, on how to create your own conference website.

Astrid: Where in the world is Plone?

When I am in Stellenbosch I sometimes wonder if other people are using Plone. I can tell you, we are not alone. [Showing some screen shots of Matomo.]

If you feel lonely, you can go to community.plone.org, join a team, go on Discord, etc. We have a monthly news letter. Please sign up!

Eric Brehault and Jakob Kahl: France to Finland by train

I went from France to Finland by train. It took 3 days. I know that I am lucky, not everyone can do that. It would have taken 3 hours by plane. But that takes a lot of carbon dioxide, so bad for the planet. So I took responsibility. And I took more Plonistas. And I am trying to plant a seed: if Eric can do that, I can too!

I created some software to show information about my travels, the route and photos. Using GitHub user content, and a Svelte frontend.

And Jakob did the same from Bonn via a different route.

Dante: Plone MCP

Let's see how much the Claude AI can do in five minutes.

MCP is Model Context Protocol. This is a protocol for an AI to interact with other systems. We have on GitHub plone/plone-mcp, very early stages. We can use this to add blocks, create pages. I have a demo which does this.

Andre: Publication with timestamp

This is about https//:deliberations.be, used by Belgian municipal governments. We added publications with ASIC timestamps. Extra behavior. This adds verification so you can check that the document is the original one. This is done with collective.timestamp.

Rikupekka and Rita: Photo competition

Just like in the Eibar conference, we want to do a photo competition. We will add a Discord channel that you can post your photos to, and we will see who gets the most thumbs up, to win a special price.

Mike Metcalfe: Finnish

I was here in Finland in 1988 for a year. I don't know many words, but I know how to pronounce them. Finnish is phonetic: if you see a letter, pronounce it Each letter has one sound, so not in English where you have 'mat' and then an extra 'e' changes how you pronounce the 'a': 'mate'. Not so in Finnish.

'ä' is pronounced as in 'hat', for example 'Jyväskylä'. 'a' is pronounced as in 'art', for example 'Asko' or 'Mari'. The 'r' in 'Rikupekka' is a rolling 'r'.

In 'Kiitos' the 'i' is long.

Sally: Add-on voting

We had an add-ons panel, and they wanted the add-ons competition back. It can be hard to start if you are not that into the community. So fill in the ballot, there will be more on the registration desk tomorrow.