brasil.gov.br: building a digital nation with plone

Brasil.gov.br:Building a Digital Nation With Plone

Brasil.gov.br: Building a digital nation with Plone

Érico Andrei - Simples Consultoria


Strategy

“Be the most complete platform

for the Brazilian state digital presence”


Strategy

“I joked with Franklin Martins (Minister of communications) in the launching day. I said to him we

could say this is the Brazilian Google. In here (portal), our citizens will find informations about everything we do,

every cent we expend”

Lula, Brazil’s President


A few numbers

•3 languages

•12 sections

•4 target groups

•11 mini-sites

•15Gb of content


more numbers

•~600 government services

•4 server environments

•20 servers

•95 new Python packages


Team

•Planning•Scope•IA•Design•Development •Content editing•Management


Team

Over 120 professionalsSecomTV1

SerproContractors


Technology


The BIGGEST challenge


Ok, seriously now

Lack of Plone expertise+

A motivated and very competent team+

XGH=


After launch ...


Things we learned

•The team lacked some professional skills

•Plone is a Content Management System

•Our hosting environment had it’s rules

•XGH no more!


What we needed

•A senior management

•Senior developers

•Some interface “wizards”

•And a new process


Plone to the people

•Leveling the team with formal training

•Mentoring

•And tons of pair-programing


Processes

•We needed to adapt to Serpro way of working

•New projects needed to be organized

•Integrate, integrate, integrate

•Refactor, refactor, refactor


Choosing the right tools

•Moving to Git

•Our own paster templates

•Kanban + Jira + Confluence


Things we contributed to

ATGoogleVideo

ContentPanels

CMFPublicator

ThemeSwitcher

ZopeSkel

archetypes.languagebugfix

sc.dev.core

sc.paster.*

sc.social.viewcounter

tv1.app.*


And now ...


Enviroment improvements


Buildout


Package management

•zest.releaser

•Plone Software Center

•PyPi Mirror


Continuos integration


Performance tests

•FunkLoad


Using the proper tools


And mostly, the looks


Modular, manageable

•Over 200 different tiles

•An gigantic number of internal views

•Editors compose the front page

•Accessibility and Usability are essential

•8 front end developers


with a little spice...

•We have well defined positions -- IA, Design, Implementation

•Our front end team has different backgrounds

•Content editors are not always tech-friendly

•And we learned the lesson: Create once, try to use anywhere


In a few topics


Brasil.gov.br

•Two different customers

•A service aggregator and news portal

•Lack of Plone professionals -- so we trained the team we had available


Questions?


Thank you

Érico Andrei

[email protected]

twitter: @ericof

irc: ericof

plone.org: erico_andrei

mailto:[email protected]

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