The Plone Podcast

(This episode premiered on April 16, 2024, as part of World Plone Day 2024)

Paul Everitt might not have actually invented the internet but he was in the room for and perhaps even the person behind the creation of the U.S. Navy’s web site: www.navy.mil over 30 years ago.

First Plone Foundation president, co-founder of Zope Corporation, ZEA Partners, and Agendaless Consulting, Paul is one of those guys who is smart as a whip, boatloads of fun to be around, and (goldurnit!) good looking to boot.

Yes, you just end up gritting your teeth but you want to be around him and hear his great stories.

In this episode, we roll back the years to the time when software was delivered on diskette, people read books, and Python was just getting started on the web.

(You can catch the video of this episode at https://youtu.be/sWZnSLIIwCA and enjoy Paul and Kim's facial expressions and special hand signs)

Godefroid Chapelle is a longtime Zope and Plone developer who first encountered Zope in its hectic heyday and was a participant at the first in-person Plone sprint.
 
We cover a lot of ground in this episode as Godefroid reflects on: 

• his origins as a programmer
• being present at the first EuroPython
• the difference between hackathons and sprints
• the culture of organizations and communities
• monkey patching as conflict avoidance
• how Zope's component architecture enabled Plone's diverse community
• reading code as poetry
• the importance of mentoring in coding
• tools that teach best practices
• repeatability with buildout and Nix
• Hashicorp
• the main selling point of Zope
• Rust and other typed languages
• Python tracebacks and the topology of code.

David Glick has been a Plone core contributor for 15 years and is one of the originators of the Dexterity content type framework. In this episode we talk about the cycle of contribution to our long-lived project and community and how Plone's future is excitingly open.

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Jean Jordaan switched from a humanities career to working as a developer with Python, Zope, and Plone with Upfront Systems in South Africa, then moving to Nairobi, Kenya, and, eventually, to Bangkok, Thailand. Join us to hear some of his keen insights into community, process, and life!

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Season 2 of The Plone Podcast, conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features guest Mikel Larreategi. Mikel is a software developer from Eibar, Basque Country. He has been a Pythonista from the beginning, and he started developing with Zope and Plone in 2005. In his free time, Mikel enjoys chess and hiking.

Season 2 of The Plone Podcast, conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features guest Steve McMahon. Steve, is a Plone consultant and integrator specializing in non-profits. He also does extensive volunteer work with the Davis Community Network.

Season 2 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features guest Alec Ghica. Alec, cofounder of Eau de Web, has been an enthusiastic Plone and web developer for more than 10 years. He is passionate about the open-source community.

Season 2 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features guest Sean Kelly. Sean, a software engineer by trade, is a NASA scientist, JPL consultant; Plone committer; Python hacker and Apache Software Foundation member.

Season 2 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, kicks off with guest Michael McFadden. Michael was initiated to Plone under the guidance of Tres Seaver and has been working with Plone for 10 years at Radio Free Asia, maintaining a single code base for 14 separate language sites. He was one of the last to abandon Archetypes when finally forced to update to Python 3. He is the author of rfa.kaltura and a contributor to many parts of Plone core and Zope.

Episode 12 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features guest Kim Paulissen. Kim is the maintainer/integrator of all Plone-based solutions for the KU Leuven University and a Plone Foundation board member.