Recent development sprints

New developers site

We've closed down the Poi issue trackers on www.plone4artists.org, and from now on will be using this site to report Plone4Artists issues and feature requests.

Screencasts

See screencasts of the audio, video and calendar products on the Screencasts page.

Sponsorships

If you are using the Plone4Artists products on your site, please consider sponsoring the project. We greatly appreciate your support!

Welcome to Plone4Artists

Plone4Artists is a project to distribute a customized edition of Plone suitable for building artist community websites. It bundles best-of-breed add-on products for Plone as well as provide several products of its own.

Installing Plone4Artists

If you are using Plone 3.x, the preferred and supported way of installing Plone4Artists is using buildout.

If you are using Plone 2.5, you can still use buildout, but it may be easier to use the provided tarballs to install Plone4Artists in your site.

Audio

Plone4ArtistsAudio - add-on for Plone that provides better handling and playback of audio files (MP3, Ogg)

Video

Plone4ArtistsVideo - add-on for Plone that provides better handling of video files and embedding of videos hosted on popular video sharing sites (Youtube, Google Video, Blip.tv, etc.)

Calendar

calendar-iconPlone4ArtistsCalendar - add-on for Plone that provides a calendar of events, including month, week, day and listing views. Also includes iCal import/export.

Tagging

p4a.plonetagging - add-on for Plone that provides the ability for users to tag content on their Plone site with one or more keywords. Each user gets their own tag cloud.

Ratings

PloneContentRating - add-on for Plone that provides the ability for users to rate content on their Plone site. The tool supports both user ratings as well as editorial ratings.

Note: Plone4Artists will soon be utilizing the plone.contentratings package developed by Alec Mitchell.

Licensing

ContentLicensing - add-on for Plone that provides the ability for users to assign a license to any piece of content. The tool support Creative Commons licenses.

Bulk uploading

In order to facilitate the rapid transfer of many files into a Plone site, we include two useful tools for bulk uploading content:

PloneFlashUpload - add-on for Plone that provides the ability for users to bulk upload many files all at once using a Flash uploader tool in the browser.

ZipFileTransport - add-on for Plone that provides the ability for users to upload a Zip file that contains a bunch of files. They are uncompressed on the server and appear in the Plone site.

Large Files

Goal: Keep large files out of the ZODB to prevent bloat, and make the files available outside of the Zope/Plone system.

Solution: The recommended way to store large files on the file system instead of the ZODB is either:

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