Two questions keep turning up in the same meeting.
How do we stop depending on systems we do not control. And what are we supposed to do about AI.
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@plone.orgTwo questions keep turning up in the same meeting.
How do we stop depending on systems we do not control. And what are we supposed to do about AI.
@plone.orgwebcloud7 is sponsoring a conference they will not be at.
The company already backs Plone as a Plone Foundation sponsor.
Danke, webcloud7. The conference runs on this.
@plone.orgThe president of the Plone Foundation has a day job. He runs Affinitic, in Belgium.
And Affinitic is sponsoring Plone Conference 2026.
Thank you, Affinitic. Thank you for helping bring the community together this September.
@plone.orgA Walloon town council takes a decision. Behind that, software has to record the deliberation, file the document, and put the result somewhere a citizen can actually find it.
Merci, iMio. Thank you for helping bring the community together.
@plone.orgStarzel's clients work in science, and in political and historical education. Which means the content has to still be right long after the project that paid for it ended.
Danke, Starzel. Thank you for helping bring the community together this September.
@plone.orgIn June, the people building Plone 7 spent a week in Kerpen. Interaktiv hosted them.
And this September they are sponsoring Plone Conference 2026.
Danke, Interaktiv. Thank you for helping bring the community together this September.
@plone.orgAlan Runyan founded Enfold Systems in Houston in 2004. He is also a co-founder of Plone, and of the Plone Foundation.
Thank you, Enfold. Thank you for helping bring the community together this September.
@plone.orgAsk a nonprofit where its donor and member data lives. Then ask where the website lives. Two different systems, usually, and someone has to make them agree.
Thank you, Jazkarta. Thank you for helping bring the community together this September.
@plone.orgThe sprint venue in Maastricht is called Collective Workspace. Nobody planned that.
Guido walked through it with a camera running: the café, the bar, the terrace, and the floor where the sprint actually happens.
Tickets and program: 2026.ploneconf.org
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@plone.orgIf you want great seniors, you first have to produce good juniors. That is the part AI makes harder.
Ciro Silvano takes 25 minutes on it at Plone Conference 2026.
@plone.orgPlone Classic UI got a new name in May, at a sprint in a Styrian wine tavern. Blicca.
Johannes Raggam tells the story in Maastricht.
@plone.orgThe UI Plone grew up with is still getting new parts.
Johannes Raggam brings the news from Mockup and Patternslib to Maastricht. Mockup is the JavaScript framework behind Blicca, the UI that was called Classic until this May.
@plone.orgAI generates the component in seconds. The secret it hardcoded stays in the repository.
Ioan Dorian Dobricean's talk at Plone Conference 2026 is about what happens to application security once AI joins the workflow.
@juizi-web.bsky.socialThe Juizi #PloneConf2026 team t-shirts are printed and ready to be packed into our suitcases. See them IRL on our team at the conference in Maastricht 🌍 ✈️ 🧳 👕
@plone.orgAn American manufacturer has been in business for over a hundred years. Most of what it knows sits in the heads of the people on the production floor.
T. Kim Nguyen built the place to put it.
@plone.orgThe European Environment Agency has run on Plone for twenty years, and on Volto since 2019. Staying current is its own engineering project.
Forty-five minutes, from the two people doing the work.
Maastricht, 21–27 September.
@plone.orgSomeone is going to paste AI-generated HTML into your website. That part is already settled.
What happens next is the open question, and it is what Teodor Voicu is bringing to Maastricht.
Maastricht, 21–27 September.
@plone.orgYour site search knows who the reader is. An AI answer box bolted on top often does not.
That gap is what Dante Álvarez's talk is about.
Maastricht, 21–27 September.
@plone.org"We build websites worth having."
That is how Juizi describes itself, in one line, and this September they are sponsoring Plone Conference 2026.
Dankie, Juizi. Thank you for helping bring the community together this September.