News
Read all about what is going on at SYSLAB, our feature articles and catch up with the latest events and developments in the Open Source and Plone Community.
EU: Rise in use of EUPL for publishing open source software
The European Union's open source licence, (European Union Public Licence, EUPL) is being used more and more. A quarter of the projects available on the European Commission's software development site, the OSOR Forge, 47 out of 183 projects, are published using the EUPL. On Sourceforge, a commercial venture for open source software development based in the US, the licence is now selected by 49 projects. One year ago there were none.
Dutch Plone User Day 2010
On Tuesday the fourteenth of September Zest Software is honored to organize this years Dutch Plone user day. At an amazing height of almost 100 meters above the ground you can learn all about Plone and get and impressive perpective at Rotterdam.
Plone 4 CMS Unveiled: Advancing Power, Performance & User Experience
The Plone community has raised the bar in the Content Management System market with today's release of Plone 4, a faster, more user-friendly and more refined version of a product which has set the pace for CMS innovation for nearly a decade.
Plone 4 Reaches Release Candidate Status
The first release candidate of Plone 4.0 is now available. The Plone 4.0 Framework Team and release manager Eric Steele are pleased to announce the first release candidate for Plone 4.0.
11th DZUG conference on Zope, Plone and Python
The 11th DZUG conference will be held in the Media Centre of TU Dresden from 15th to 17th September 2010. The program includes lectures, tutorials and sprints on Zope, Plone and Python. SYSLAB.COM will also participate, giving a presentation about the use of intranet together with Plone.
Practical Guide to using Free Software in the Public Sector
If you have a special interest in the use of open source software in the public sector, OSOR has published a new guide on licensing and copyrights.
Plone 4 upgrade coming to plone.org
Please mark your calendars for the weekend of July 31, 2010 for a plone.org upgrade — and possible downtime.
Waiting for Plone 4!
The first Beta 5 Version of Plone 4 has already been released in July 2010, containing some improvements in handling. Now everybody is waiting for the final release.
Call for proposals for Plone 4.1
The Plone Foundation is pleased to announce that the Plone 4.x Framework Team will, starting immediately, consider community proposals for substantive improvements to the Plone platform for the Plone 4.1 release.
Graham Taylor and Karsten Gerloff on free software/open source in Europe
Graham Taylor of OpenForum Europe (OFE) and Karsten Gerloff of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) cite standardization policy as the principal battleground for free software & open source communities in Europe.
EU: 3.3 million to continue projects on open source and reusable data
The European Commission is planning to spend 3.344 million Euro until 2016 to continue the services provided by its projects - such as OSOR.eu and SEMIC.eu - on open source and on electronic data exchange.
Open Economics: Inspiring confidence through transparency
Market confidence is a valuable commodity in tough economic times. And governments will try just about anything to inspire some. Recapitalization--bailouts--for struggling sectors is one approach.
A new and better Open Source Initiative
When I said recently that we still need the Open Source Initiative (OSI), it started a flood of comment. There's no doubt that we need OSI - but we need a better OSI. The one we have now is just too small to be effective and too mired in past successes; a renaissance is needed. You can help.
DZUG conference on Python, Zope & Plone 2010 in Dresden
This year's DZUG conference will be held from 15th to 17th of September in Dresden. On the day before the conference there wiil be full-day tutorials. On the weekend after there will be sprints. Suggestions for talks, tutorials and sprints can be submitted.
Plone Symposium South America 2010 — Call for Proposals
The session proposals is open for the Plone Symposium South America 2010 — November 22–28, 2010 in Cordoba, Argentina.
Debate on government's use of open source and open data
Public administration's using open source and open standards and governmental institutions that are making their data publicly available are two of the themes of this year's Open World Forum conference in Paris.
Info PloneEdu Website to Be Officially Launched at Plone Symposium East 2010
PloneEdu, a community promoting Plone for web publishing in education, will be launched at Plone Symposium East 2010 at Penn State on May 28 2010.
Plone's Summer of Code has begun
After having proposals accepted by the Plone Foundation four university students have started working on improving Plone, thanks to funding from Google.
Another Plone Event - Sorrento Sprint 2010
The fourth Sorrento Sprint 2010 takes place on May 28-30 2010, right after the European Plone Symposium. Join in and help to improve Plone 4 features and push Plone trunk development.
