Lightning talks Thursday

Martin Peeters: Plone Foundation membership

You can apply to become a member of the Plone Foundation membership. Use this form. Ask for help, especially if you are not so good in English. Don't be shy, we all suffer from imposter syndrome. If you are in this room, you probably should be a foundation member.

Paul: Sprints

In the weekend there are sprints. You don't need to be a programmer, there are lots of other things you can do. So join us this weekend.

Astrid: Democracy

There were lots of elections in democracies this year. Plone is also a democracy. Join a Plone team.

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Alexander Loechel: Alpine City Sprint

The Alpine City sprint will happen in Innsbruck Austria, February 10-14.

See https://alpinecity.tirol/. Join us, and go skiing if you want.

Dante: Axolote sprint

Join us for this sprint in Mexico, June 23-27.

Erico: "Axolote was the best sprint this year by far."

Antoine: collective AI

This is a collection of packages that brings artificial intelligence in Plone. You can use it for generating summaries of articles. At IMIO plan a release in January. Contact us if you are interested.

Fred van Dijk: Site go live tips, tricks, checks, caveats

https://vmm.vlaanderen.be/ went live this morning. Went fine mostly, but of course there were issues.

The domain had to change from vmm.be to vmm.vlaanderen.be. There were absolute urls to this or a pre-production domain in some of the texts, so those need to be fixed. I did a search and replace to the blocks with a script.

Check settings in Analytics consoles, update the allowed domains.

We have iframe blocks. But where: we use collective.tileindex, meant for Classic UI tiles but reused for Volto blocks, so we know where they are.

Traefik: you can install a file provider.

Renan: electro magnetics and screws

I have a bachelor's degree in physics. I learned something about electro magnetism. An electric current going upwards, generates a magnetic field counter clockwise. Now you know which way to turn a screw driver.

Mohammed: GSoC student

This is my first Plone conference as a GSoC student. It is a global online program connecting students with open source programs. We get a mentor. It teaches us how to communicate and engage. You gave us a warm welcome at the conference, thank you. What I learned here, I did not learn in college. I'll be back. I will give a talk tomorrow about Hydra. I won't bore you, I promise.

Kim: Plone funding

You can sponsor Plone, donate to Plone.

I have been helping with sponsorships. It is 100 percent of our income. Here are our sponsors: https://plone.org/foundation/sponsorship/sponsors

You can also donate individually via GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/plone

It is not only about us getting money. It is also about how it looks on GitHub: it helps if people there see that people are sponsoring us.

The money we have as foundation is stable. But what are we not doing? We could advertise more. Sponsor local sprints. Have some paid positions. What is the effect of not doing these things? We have a marketing team creating material, but it is not reaching a lot of people. Let's find creative way to raise funds. I will buy you a cerveza.