As my colleague Steve Andersen also reports, ONE/Northwest has received a $25,000 grant from the Salesforce.com Foundation to fund the integration of Plone with Salesforce.com. This will allow folks with Plone-powered websites to share data about people, organizations, etc. with the Salesforce.com database platform. You can read more details on the ONE/Northwest website.
As you might expect, we’re all pretty excited. Plone and Salesforce.com are both industrial strength, easy-to-use applications with incredibly strong communities behind them and bright futures ahead. Both are widely used in the nonprofit sector — and beyond. And both have deeply embedded assumptions about the importance of “playing nice” with other applications, which is what makes this kind of across-the-internet integraion possible.
Our current plan is for an October final release, with several interim milestones along the way. We’ll be working with Enfold Systems, who are top-tier Plone consultants (and friends), to make sure the code is written right.
We haven’t yet set up any kind of collaboration space for the project (since it just became really real yesterday!), but if you’re interested in participating or in tracking it closely, leave a comment below and we’ll be in touch soon.
Sounds very interesting. Please mail with future developments.
I’m very interested in tracking the progress. Would love to create a podcast with you and Steve to learn more about the project. I’d be up for doing it now and then again when the project ends. Let me know.
Anyway, I’m big supporter. Very happy to see this news.
Tom Parish
Austin TX
http://www.talkingportraits.com
I’m interested in tracking the project, Jon! I’m working with Greenpeace UK to select a new CMS (see http://importantprojects.co.uk/archives/000068.php) – we’ll be evaluating Plone, Drupal and OpenACS in the next few weeks. I’ll send you an email with more info, but in the meantime, please put me on your list for project updates
Best,
Rob
Awesome news! Please keep us in the loop.
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Are there any updates on this? Project plan? Discussions? Forums? Mailing lists?
I am excited about the prospect of this but would like to get to a few more details.
So much more.
Jake
My company has integrated their developer website with Salesforce.com (with help from Netsight Internet Solutions, UK based Zope/Plone consultants). We’re currently using SOAPpy (see http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/soappy.txt) under the hood as our web services toolkit. There’s also ZSI (see http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/zsi.html), but I’ve also been looking at Beatbox (see http://www.pocketsoap.com/beatbox/) recently. I’d love to hear what libraries you’re planning on using and why.
Keep me posted
Emyr
Great news. This will be a big hit. How’s the progress?