PLONE.ORG: Great Progress on the New plone.org Built on Plone 6

New Plone.org is going to be Plone 6

At the last Plone Conference 2021, a plan was presented on how to improve and renew plone.org, the one and only place for Plone-related information:

The main ideas by the time were:

Plone.org is going to be migrated to Plone 6
Content needs refreshing: frontpage, many main areas
The visual theme will be out-of-the-box Plone 6 with Volto frontend, using available add-ons (note: at first some add ons needed, later going for core features)
The aim is to get the new site published by World Plone Day 2022 (April).

Great progress at the sprints

Since December 2022, we have organized 4 monthly sprints, working on:

Content and navigation structure
Other content work
Migration from Plone 5 to Plone 6
Visual design
Translation, default page content, add-ons
Plone 6 documentation
Volto improvements
Volto blocks and installation
And more

Since then, the original plan has changed to include a new visual theme and additional content features, that will eventually be available for others to use. A more ambitious scope has moved the release date somewhat further this year.

Special thanks

Plone marketing and communications team is organizing the effort and will be working on the content overhaul throughout the process, but we also want to express special thanks to:

Philip Bauer, Starzel.de - full content migration from Plone 5 to Plone 6, including the transition to Volto blocks
Érico Andrei, Kitconcept - Foundation member content type, installation, deployment, content types renewal, etc.
Steve Piercy and Katja Süss - documentation effort leading to new Plone 6 docs https://6.dev-docs.plone.org/index.html and organization around the work
Massimo Azzolini, Irene Capatti, Massimo Weigert, Gianantonio Vecelli from Giallocobalto
- for massive content and structure design, visual design and layout, UX design
Stefano Marchetti, Andrea Cecchi, Giulia Ghisini, Andrea Baglioni from Redturtle
- for buildout for a new site with all the needed Volto blocks, curated add-ons, visual theme, and more: https://github.com/collective/volto-plone-org
Kim Nguyen, Brian Davis - lessons learned from previous renewal, content and structure discussion, theming mockups, etc.
Victor Fernandez de Alba, Jakob Kahl - Volto knowledge
And everyone who has pitched in ideas, discussions, and questions!

This effort would not be possible without help from the awesome Plone community!

Want to join the effort?

Plone.org work is not done - the next plone.org sprint will be organized in May 2022, feel free to join! There will be an event later, page but meanwhile, join plone.org Discord channel for discussion. By then, we are going to get a fully running site with migrated content available online for testing and content work.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact marketing@plone.org.

Stay tuned for more plone.org discussions and presentations at World Plone Day on April 27th 2022.