THANKS
First of all I must say that this was a wonderful week! I had a lot of fun, I shared a lot of informations and experience with other people and most important: I learned a lot! :)
For this, I wanna give huge "thanks" to my team, especially to Vincenzo Barone [@wooda], Rosario Savarese [@rosariosavarese] and Maurizio Delmonte [@miziodel].
I must say 'thanks' also to all the plonistas that have been there and that made this event a real success! The weather was not so kind (as it should be for that period) but the atmosphere that each of us contributed to create, was really really positive and productive.
Preferred talks
T. Desvenain - collective.local.{workspace,sendto,adduser,addgroup} for managing workspaces & C. Messiant - collective.contact.{core, widget}
One of the main feature of Plone is the possibility to manage local permission and local settings. This suite of package essentially takes the best of this approach and allows you to create local workspaces where you can define 'local admins'. Local admins can create and manage local users and local groups.
G. Stevens - PloneSocial roadmap
This is the second time I enjoy a talk about PloneSocial by Guido and I must admit that everytime he present it, there are always improvements, and, above all, it sounds like he has a sound envision on how the social-story should be embraced by Plone. This is great!
You can see what has been improved during the sprint.
A. De Marinis - Visualising Open Data with Plone
Antonio presented a way for integrating Open Data collections and visualization into Plone. It was very interesting and he confirmed once more that he and his development team from Eau de web are doing an hard and useful work.
R. Garbas - Modern Javascript and Plone
Rok gave us an enlightening talk on how to do JS nowadays and how we should start getting rid of old Plone JS-story. Using some useful JS tools and libraries (like requirejs, mocha.js, etc) we can ease the work of designers and make our JS organized, clean and above all TESTED!
The talk was so good and inspiring that I decided to sprint on Plone Mockup. Here's the sprint report http://www.coactivate.org/projects/plog2013/plone-mockup-plone-app-widgets
A. Ghica - EEA add-ons overview
Alec showed us some of the best products developed by his Eau The Web team for EEA. I already knew most of them but once again he proved that there are lots of improvements they implemented that IMO should go straight into the Plone core.
M. Ohtamaa - Write the docs
Mikko's talk was great and fun as usual. He pointed out that if some feature or package is not documented it does not exist! Documentation is really important for the Plone eco-system and that each one of us should commit at least a line to the developer docs. He made us swear on it :D
A. Soukka - writing functional tests for Plone using Robot Framework
Asko gave us an overview on how to start testing our code with Robot Framework. The talk was very interesting and all the people I talked to told me "yes, we want robot test into our project!". Also, he sprinted on plone.app.roboframework (the package for integrating robot test into plone test suite) and he came out with a screenshot feature that allows you to take screenshots and register videos while testing. This is a killer feature that will make feature screencast and documentation update easier and easier. Well done Asko!
É. Andrei - Community bootstrapping: PloneGov.br case
Erico showed us how the PloneGov initiative in Brazil is tending to unified approach in developing new public portals using Plone. They developed some base packages that must be included in every public Plone project. If a governamental agency decide to re-implement feature on their own, re-inventing the weel, the gov forces it to reimburse to the State the money they spent. I would love to see this happen all around the world, especially in my Country!
In the end
It was a really pleasant experience. I learned a lot thanks above all to Rok that is really a smart guy and kind enough to enlight you into the black and dark forest of javascript development and debugging.
I really enjoyed the location, the people and the work we have done for improving our favourite tool.