Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Lineage is a free and open source Plone product that makes it easy to manage subsites. It works by enabling regular subfolders of a Plone site to appear as autonomous Plone sites to the everyday user.

We've seen a lot of activity around Lineage this year and wanted to make sure that before PloneConf we had a fresh new version of Lineage for Plone 4.x and Plone 5.

SaltStack (Salt) is currently one of the fastest growing configuration management systems. It's written in Python and uses ZeroMQ to communicate nearly instantaneously with all of the servers in your infrastructure that it calls minions. Here is how we use Salt and why.

We’ve taken the challenge of finding well-trained Python developers into our own hands. Clayton and I will be teaching 5-day immersive trainings on Python and Django at Eleven Fifty in Carmel, Indiana.

Six Feet Up is excited not only be attending and sponsoring Plone Conf 2014, but we are also donating our Survey App to the conference. We believe in actively helping grow our communities.

Python is used by major organizations for mission critical applications in Indianapolis and around the U.S.

70% of Higher Ed institutions running Plone also use Drupal. While some universities go down the path of consolidating onto one platform, there is another simpler and cheaper option: integrating the two CMSs.

A "Cheese Sprint" followed the annual Plone Symposium Midwest hosted at the University of Oshkosh on June 20-21-22, 2014. About 30 people from around the globe tackled six specific projects to advance Plone...

We recommend upgrading to the latest stable version of Plone (emphasis on "stable"). Here's why: