Why Open Source, Why Plone

An Invitation to Contribute in an Open Community, presented at Stellenbosch University in January, 19th, 2026.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpR5qqTC_dQ

Transcript

1. Why Open Source, Why Plone An Invitation to Contribute in an Open Community Érico Andrei
 https://ericof.com | @ericof@pynews.com.br | @ericof.com | @ericof
2. Quick survey
3. Raise your hand if you use Free / Open Source Software
4. Raise your hand if you contribute back
5. Define: Contributions
6. Raise your hand if you contribute back
7. about:ericof
8. about:ericof@plone.org
9. about:plone
10. Plone is a CMS
11. Plone UX
12. https://docs.plone.org/install/
13. Come to Plone
14. Plone Foundation
15. Community
16. “People > Technology”
17. "Plone is a drinking community with a software problem”
18. A healthy community
19. Needs you
20. Needs diversity
21. Needs human interaction
22. Needs clear rules
23. A final message
24. Tools, technologies will fade…
25. But friendships will remain
26. /ericof @ericof @ericof@pynews.com.br @ericof.com