© Plone Conference 2025 · official recapPeople · Practice · Participation
There is a place for your contribution.
Plone grows through the people who build it, explain it, translate it, test it and use it every day.
An open-source community is a place to exchange practical experience. You might arrive with a technical problem, a design question or an editorial workflow that could work better. You do not need to understand every part of the project before you can join that conversation.
The Plone community uses its forum for discussion and Discord for live chat. Teams bring people together around shared areas of work. Conferences and sprints create opportunities to meet, learn from one another and work on improvements.
Make your first question concrete. Explain the context, what you tried and the result you are looking for. If someone helps you find an answer, share the outcome so that the next person can learn from it too.
A documentation correction, a reproducible example or a description of a confusing workflow can make the project easier for someone else to use. Start with the part you have just learned yourself.
Try a release or an add-on with representative content. Describe what happened and what you expected. A careful report is more useful than a broad statement that something feels wrong.
Code is one route, alongside translation, design and accessibility work. Choose a bounded task, discuss the approach and make the result easy for another contributor to review.
Plone Conference 2025 brought participants from 30 countries to Jyväskylä. Its programme combined training, more than 70 talks, PyCon Finland and a development sprint. The photographs here come from that event.
The sprint invitation explicitly welcomed newcomers as well as experienced contributors. Participants could work on planning, programming, documentation or testing, or join an existing topic.
You can use a gathering to discover where your experience is useful. Bring a manageable question, ask how the work is organised and leave with one next step you can continue after the event.
The Plone Foundation exists to protect and promote the project. Its community guidance emphasises respectful participation. A healthy project depends on people being able to ask questions, disagree constructively and contribute without harassment.
Support can take the form of time, expertise, sponsorship or simply a well-documented improvement. Sustainable participation is often a small contribution that someone can keep making.