Timo

Pastanaga UI was created by Albert Casada. Pastanaga means carrot, and the logo is a stylised carrot. Albert worked on this in his free time, creating hundreds of icons, etc. I was impressed before I even saw it. Main ideas:

• Simplify. Do not show what the user does not need to see.
• Adaptive user interface. More people are viewing web sites on mobile devices than on desk tops now. You UI should work good on all kinds of devices.
• Focus. I was writing a blog post in my code editor. [Note from Maurits: me too.] We want users to do that in Plone. Most current CMSes use TinyMCE or a similar editor, like Plone does, and we no longer stand out. The most time of our users is probably spent in TinyMCE, so we should make this better again.

Pastanaga is a carrot. Albert said he wanted a carrot on a stick, to entice people into using Plone again.

Another story. Ramon did all the stuff on plone.rest, I saw he wast smart, so I just nodded and created a few tests. I did not have much time to work on it afterwards. Others came and made it work with Archetypes, which we did not initially want, but they improved our initial code to make it flexible, so why not. Then Eric Bréhault came along for plone.restapi. Then people worked on an angular client. So: we told a story, did some work, and others jumped in.

It is hard to maintain stuff on our own. We must become consumers of libraries that are already there, especially javascript libraries. Do not reinvent, but reuse.

For us developers, it is cool to create a version of Plone that works on Zope 4, or Python 3, but clients mostly do not care. They need something else, like the Pastanaga UI.

Make Plone outstanding again.

Eric

It's time for new stories. Start writing them. Thank you.

Python at Google

Google loves Python. :) It is widely used internally and externally. We are sponsoring conferences. We have open source libraries, like a Google Data Python Client Library, libraries for youtube, app engine, etcetera. We use it for build systems, report generation, log analysis, etc.

How can you use Google Cloud Platform for your app or website? You can deploy at scale. You can embed intelligence empowered by machine learning, we provide multiple pre trained models. You can use serverless data processing and analytics.

Machine learning

Let me explain it in a simple way. You want to teach something to a kid: what is a car, what is a bike? You point at a car or bike and explain what it is called. With machines we shoot in lots of data and they start to see patterns.

• Artificial intelligence: process of building smarter computers
• Machine learning: process of making a computer learn

Machine learning is much easier.

Our CEO: "We no longer build mobile-first applications, but AI-first."

We have a lot of data, better models, and more computing power. That is why machine learning is happening a lot now.

Google created the open source Tensorflow Python framework for machine learning. And we have hardware to match. We have ready to use models for vision, speech, jobs, translation, natural language, video intelligence.

• Vision API: object recognition (landmarks), sentiment on faces, extract text, detect inappropriate content. Disney game: search with your phone for a chair, and we show a dragon on the chair. Point your camera at a house, and you see a price tag.
• Speech API: speech recognition (write out the transcript, support for 80 languages).
• Natural language API: really understand the text that is written, recognise nouns and verbs and sentiment.
• Translation API: realtime sub titles, automatic language translation using more context than earlier versions.
• Beta video intelligence: label detection, enable video search (in which frame did the dog first appear).

Demo

Go to the Google Cloud console and create a free account to play with. You need to enable the APIs that you want to use. Install the command line tools if you want to run it on your local machine. And pip install google-cloud.

We use machine learning for example in GMail to show you a possible answer to send for an email you receive.

Walkthrough of machine learning and TensorFlow

Google Cloud Dataflow. Dataflow is a unified programming model for batch or stream data processing. MapReduce-like operations. Parallel workloads. It is open sourced as Apache Beam, and you can run it on Google Cloud Platform.

You put files in Cloud Storage. Process this in batches, with Python and Dataflow. This uses pre-trained machine learning models. Then store results in BigQuery, and visualize the insights in Data Studio.

Paul Roeland: Plone Open Garden

Sorrento. Lovely spot in Italy. Annual event for past ten years or more: Plone Open Garden. What is it? It is a place that has Plone and Plonistas. It has a hotel as our central place, great food and drink, family friendly atmosphere for open discussions. Nice view. We want to focus on headless CMS. But not only tech, also how this affects our marketing and strategy. People with different skill sets are welcome to join.

When? Not fixed yet, but around 18 till 22 April 2017. Watch for one or more preparatory sprints over the world. Watch for discussion docs and roadmap. Please signal your attention early so we can make a great deal with the hotel.

Eric Bréhault and Philip Bauer: Plone futures

There are different possible futures for us. Valid, possible, and good. Several roads.

1. CMS. We are targeting that market. It's what we do right now. Lots of plans like moving to Python 3.
2. Products. Quaive (Intranet), CastleCMS. Targeting specialised audiences. Built on the same technology. Various approaches to UI.
3. Headless CMS. Different market, like Contentful. Expose Plone as API for Javascript. Compared with comparable solutions, we are way better and we are open source. It is a different market with a lot of potential. We have a management application already in front of it: Plone 5. Unique! Plone 5 is the reference implementation of the UI.
4. plone.server. All of the above, headless plus Python 3.

Thomas Schorr: Managing revisions in Plone

CMFEditions has been used for a long time for content revisions in Plone. Configured in the control panel. You can view old versions, or revert to them.

Several limitations and issues. History listing and statistics are calculated on the fly, which takes a very long time. If you delete a working copy, old revisions stay in the ZODB, they will not get deleted by anything through the web. Real life example, 50 GB data, out of which 34 GB was in revisions. That may not be common, they were editing several large documents daily.

We created collective.revisionmanager for this customer. Sorted listing of portal_historiesstorage. You can purge revisions or delete entire histories. It maintains a cache for statistics and history data. It has a control panel for the purge policy.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.revisionmanager

Timo Stollenwerk: Angular2 app

We made an example Angular2 blog app on top of Plone.

https://github.com/collective/tutorial-blog-angular2

Fred van Dijk: From process with love

Talking about processes let's you end up with an empty room. There was a Planning and Organising Sprint in June this year in Amsterdam. Shouldn't we write down our processes? We have between ten and fifteen teams in Plone. Who knows what a PLIP is? Everyone. Who does the roadmap? Framework team? Release team? Roadmap team, is that existing?

How do people who are not here or are introverts, give feedback? How much time does volunteering cost? If we describe tasks, it makes it easier to give a task to someone else.

Release team only does releases to PyPI? What about press releases? News items, tweets, documentation? There is more process here.

Do we need a process team? Yet another team? I will start documenting some.

Hector Velarde: Brazil

Joke in Brazil: Brazil is a country of the future and it always will be. President Lula got lots of people out of poverty. Still big gap between rich and poor. Next president Dilma was impeached. Police used to be nice to protesters, but not anymore.

What has this got to do with Plone? We created a blog add-on, with payment system, to maintain freedom of speech.

David Bain: Gloss

Gloss helps with theming by adding classes. gl-menu, gl-drop, gl-frontend. Diazo makes xslt easy. Gloss is supposed to make Diazo easy.

Other David: Don't get pwnd

Use https! Get a certificate. Nag your sysadmin about it. Free at https://letsencrypt.org Commercial may be better for you.

Don't drop to http if the client tells you.

Only send cookies over https

Get a good score on ssllabs.

Ivan Teoh: Plomino 2.0

Plomino is a flexible and powerful application builder in the Plone UI. Version 2.0 is mainly to support Plone 5. Archetypes support has been removed. Small demo.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.CMFPlomino

Annette Lewis: Empathetic designer

This is for anyone who needs to give deliverables to other person. Don't let others set your feelings. They will try to bring you down if they see it has an effect. Smile, turn up the corners of your mouth. The person in front of you is inclined to mirror this. Enjoy what you are doing, appreciate what you enjoy. Disassociate from 'toxic' workplaces or persons, you are separate.

Eric Wohnlich: ims.upload

In other solutions we were missing chunked uploads, resuming a failed upload when you retry. The jquery.upload library does support it, so we support it in ims.upload.

Not released or on github yet, I hope to do that soon.

Matthew Wilkes: Saving a start up money

Using Pyramid and Probability. I created a site for a startup that were trying to match cat owners and cat sitters. We needed to enable conversations by phone between the two groups, using Twilio. We made it so it in the end cost far less than otherwise. Lesson learned: don't guess, because we started with a solution that would have cost much more. See http://catinaflat.com

Sally Kleinfeldt: CMFBibliographyAT

This was not Plone 5 ready. We had several options, but decided we may just want to store it outside of Plone. There is http://pleiades.stoa.org: Plone plus Zotero. It would still be a lot of work, but if you are using it, please contact us and we'll see if we can pool resources.

Cris and Sally: Closing words

Thank you to the Microsoft NERD center for hosting us. Thanks Jazkarta and Wildcard for organising. Thanks to MIT Media Lab for provide us the Barton room for the keynote talks, especially Jen. Thanks to the training spaces: District Hall, Landmark Center, ZipCar. Thanks to Gold sponsors cars.com and SixFeetUp, and the sponsors at all the other levels. Thanks to our media partner evenios, especially Armin. Special thanks volunteers Doug Feeney and Michelle Esperanza. Thanks to T. Kim Nguyen for your time, effort, patience, generosity of spirit and just being you. Thanks to our fantastic trainers, our amazing speakers. Thanks to every last one of you who attended the conference.

Paul: "A roaring applause for you two, Cris and Sally!!!!"

Ramon and Victor: Special surprise announcement

16 to 22 October 2017: Plone Conference Barcelona. We will be at the technical university, they support us, they have 400 Plone sites. We want to involve the wider Python community of Barcelona, encouraging others to join, maybe a more general Python track.

Timo Stollenwerk: Sprint kick-off

The sprint starts tomorrow at 9 o' clock, in this room. This is a perfect time for beginners to join and start doing some work. You don't have to be a crack core developer, not at all. You are very welcome, we are very friendly and open people.

Possible sprint topics are on titanpad.