Plone Advocacy

Our involvement with Plone goes to the inception of this award-winning CMS.  Enfold Systems president, Alan Runyan, co-founded the Plone project and later the Plone Foundation.  Since the beginning, Enfold has hosted conferences / events, contributed software and dedicated resources to enable the use of Plone in organizations of all sizes.

Some of our efforts to evolve and promote Plone include:

• Alan Runyan, Enfold's President, co-founded Plone and the Plone Foundation.
• Toby Roberts, Enfold's Vice President, has been Treasurer of the Plone Foundation since 2004.
• Hosted the first Plone Conference and two subsequent Plone Symposiums in New Orleans.
• Developed the first "pure" Zope 3 application and deploy the first Zope/Plone project that used Zope 3 components.
• Enfold Proxy available to provide robust Plone integration with Microsoft's IIS web server.
• Enfold Server released freely to provide a Plone distribution tightly integrated with Windows. 
• Enfold Desktop released freely to provide extensible WebDAV support for the Plone CMS. 
• Deployed the first Plone site using the Varnish reverse caching server on the Linux platform.
• Hosted Ploneablity and numerous World Plone Day events in Houston.
• Enfold Systems continues to contribute bug fixes, enhancements and new feature resulting from client projects and in-house development projects to Plone and the open source community.
• Several Enfold Systems staff are/have been Plone Foundation members, officers and served on the Board of Directors.