Welcome to Plone's Project Page for the Google Highly Open Participation Contest

About Plone

Plone is a user-friendly, highly evolved system for managing web pages online —also sometimes called a Content Management System, or CMS. Plone is particularly good at handling multiple languages, modeling organizational processes and integrating with existing systems.

It's easy to get started with Plone, and it installs on any desktop or laptop computer that runs Windows, Mac OS X or Linux.

Plone runs a wide range of large, high-profile sites, including the sites of CIA (yes, that CIA ;), Novell, Trolltech, Amnesty International Switzerland, Oxfam International, Discover Magazine and the Free Software Foundation. Many more can be found on the Sites That Run Plone page.

There are over 200 Plone companies around the world, and they are constantly looking for new talent. Participating in this contest is a great way to get noticed, and possibly land a fun and well-paid job at one of the existing Plone companies out there — or as a way to start your own!

For those of you who are into programming, Plone uses the Python programming language, as well as adhering to standards like XHTML and CSS on the front end.

Plone is owned by the Plone Foundation, a non-profit organization that Protects and Promotes Plone.

About the Contest

Plone is delighted to take part in this Google contest, and we hope you find a task that excites you.

Before choosing a task, make sure that you are familiar with the contest rules, regulations and terms of service. You can find all of these details and more on the Contest Main Page. There is also a list of Frequently Asked Questions that you should read, as well as the contest rules.

Getting Started

We have a lot of cool things you can do for Plone. Some examples:

Create a new theme/design for Plone
Identify and help fix simple errors or omissions on the main Plone site
Write documentation or create screencasts
Help set up measurements to improve the speed of Plone

If you are looking for the student contestant list of tasks, please visit the Issues Tab.

Contact us!

If you have any questions about Plone, the available tasks, or anything else — send us an email!

The easiest way to reach us is to send us an email at highly-open@lists.plone.org. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

If you are familiar with IRC, you can also find us in #plone-highly-open on irc.freenode.net. You can also use the Java-based chat client and see if we are online right now. Remember to join the "plone-highly-open" channel, and set the nickname to your Google username.

Connect to the Plone chat rooms

Thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you!

Submitting additional tasks

If you are a member of the Plone project, and wish to suggest a task for our participants, please read the HowToWriteGoodTasks page.