Plone Conference 2022 - Namur
The 2022 edition of the annual Plone conference happened from October 10th to 16th in Namur, Belgium.
The kitconcept team was present with nine developers. Our team members gave three trainings, two keynotes, and six talks.
Trainings
Two days filled with trainings. Free for all conference attendees. This offer is unique in the Plone community and kitconcept team members were the backbone of the trainings about how to use Plone 6. From deployment to development to deep insides into how Volto and Plone 6 works.
Alok Kumar, Jakob Kahl: Volto and React
Alok Kumar and Jakob Kahl did a two day training to help developers get started with Volto and React:
https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/training/volto-and-react
Check out their trainings online if you want to catch up:
Érico Andrei, Jens Klein: Installing Plone
Our colleague Érico Andrei gave a training about installing Plone with Jens Klein on day one about how to install Plone:
https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/training/installing-plone
Victor Fernandez de Alba, Tiberiu Ichim: Effective Volto
Victor Fernandez de Alba is kitconcept CTO and the Volto Release Manager. Tiberiu Ichim is a Volto team member and one of the key contributors to Volto. They gave key insights into how to work effectively with Volto. If you have experience with Volto and you want to become a real pro, this is the training you should go to.
https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/training/effective-volto
https://training.plone.org/2022/effective-volto/index.html
Day One
On day one, kitconcept team members presented three talks, including the main keynote of the day.
Keynote Érico Andrei
Plone Foundation president, and our teammate, Érico Andrei kicked off the first day of the conference with a keynote about the Plone community.
Case Study by Timo Stollenwerk
kitconcept CEO Timo Stollenwerk presented a case study about how kitconcept relaunched hundreds of websites with the Plone 6 stack.
Plone at Scale: How Plone Powers Hundreds of Websites at one of the Largest Research Institutions in Europe
Alok Kumar
Alok Kumar presented “A Deep Dive Into Internals Of Volto” where he explained the different configuration options in Volto.
Day Two
Plone 6 beyond 2022
Volto Release Manager Victor Fernandez de Alba presented the roadmap for Plone 6 and Volto beyond 2022.
https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/plone-6-beyond-2022
David Glick: The past, present, and future of how we test Plone
https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/the-past-present-and-future-of-how-we-test-plone
Érico Andrei: Brazil still loves Plone
30 Million visitors on a single day. 670k content objects. If you are running a Plone site at scale you definitely want Érico Andrei on your team. He helped the Electoral Justice department in Brazil to run and scale Plone for the upcoming elections.
https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/brazil-still-loves-plone
Rob Gietema: Nick: A Nearly Headless CMS
Rob Gietema started plone-react together with Roel Bruggink at the Beethoven Sprint 2017 in Bonn at the kitconcept office. This first became Volto and later Plone 6.
For Rob, this isn’t enough. Check out his latest “pet project” Nick CMS. A NodeJS-based CMS headless CMS backend that works flawlessly with Volto.
https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/nick-a-nearly-headless-cms
Day 3
Timo Stollenwerk, Victor Fernandez de Alba: State of Plone
Plone Release Managers Maurits van Rees, Eric Steele, Victor Fernández de Alba, and Timo Stollenwerk started day three of the Plone Conference with the third keynote about “The State of Plone”:
https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/state-of-plone
Summary
The kitconcept team continues to drive innovation in the Plone community. Volto is the default frontend for Plone 6 and dominates the topics during the conference. We are happy to be part of such an amazing community.