And it's a wrap from the Bucharest Plone Sprint 2026. Plone people have worked hard on code, technical, governance, marketing, strategy, content and process. The Plone community thanks and celebrates you!
Plone is a content management system that is built for people that value our community, security, fun, trust and transparency.
Plone is Open.
Behind the scenes of the Bucharest Sprint are Emma, Ada, Gabi, Alin and Nera 🐕️ .
The Plone Community is very thankful! Your hard work and support makes this Sprint run smoothly. 💫 🙏
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Plone CMS at scale: Plone powers Baden-Württemberg’s new education platform for 1.5M students & 140K teachers. Already live for editorial teams, with a phased rollout starting March 2026 and full launch by the new school year in August 2026. Open source, accessible, AI-ready.
Case study: https://plone.org/why-plone/they-use-plone/bsbw-german-federal-state-case-study
Conference talk: https://youtu.be/0tjQZm04gbs
URL: https://schule-bw.de
Plone Provider: https://www.interaktiv.de/
Another Plone win: while other systems delay, Plone CMS delivers.
The University of Saarbrücken modernized its e-procurement system to Plone 6.1 + Python 3.12 in just 4 months — at a fraction of other systems' costs.
Highlights:
💡 AI-powered theming & deployment (Claude Code)
☁️ Azure + SAML + Terraform + Ansible
⏱ Faster delivery. Lower cost. Future-proof.
Implemented by ZOPYX / Andreas Jung.
Read all about it:
https://plone.org/why-plone/they-use-plone/major-upgrade-of-e-procurement-system-of-the-university-of-saarbrucken
Plone Showcase 👀 Explore this new case study: how Plone provider Syslab built a secure, multilingual, open source platform that is "used by 17 countries and counting" 👏
👉 https://plone.org/why-plone/they-use-plone/oira
The online interactive risk assessment tool OiRA runs on Plone CMS - proving open source can power platforms at massive scale. Trusted by the European Union, enterprise-grade.💪 🇪🇺
Are these cookies as delicious as the CMS is impressive? Find out more at https://6.docs.plone.org/install/create-project-cookieplone.html
Tune Up details here https://plone.org/news-and-events/events/plone-tune-up-days/plone-tune-up-dec-2025
"Sometimes the best gifts arrive without warning, carrying stories you didn't know were being written." Thank you Armin for this news post about Frappe’s quiet and powerful recent contribution to the Plone Foundation, tracing back to foundational Zope components like RestrictedPython that they still rely on.
Read the full story on how a legacy comes full circle:
In open source, the dependency graph is often deeper than we realize.
What's your best, most creative idea for funding Plone's core development and community? Post your ideas in the comments below👇
Let's make sure FOSS is sustainable for years to come!
The #PloneConf2025 survey results are in! "..on the scale of 1-5, where 1 is bad and 5 is very good, we got the overall score of 4.87/5. " 👏 👏
"The conference was great! Maybe the best until now, but then, every year is the best conference. I did love Jyväskylä and Finland."
More quotes and feedback here
https://plone.org/news-and-events/news/news-for-2025/feedback-videos-and-photos-from-plone-conference-2025
The #PloneConf2025 survey results are in! "..on the scale of 1-5, where 1 is bad and 5 is very good, we got the overall score of 4.87/5. " 👏 👏
"The conference was great! Maybe the best until now, but then, every year is the best conference. I did love Jyväskylä and Finland."
More quotes and feedback here
https://plone.org/news-and-events/news/news-for-2025/feedback-videos-and-photos-from-plone-conference-2025
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