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About Zea Partners
Zea network
Zea Partners (Zea) is a non-profit business partner network for companies involved in the creation and development of Zope, Plone and Silva systems.
Zea is a transnational organization that conducts professional-quality business with a social return. We complete the virtuous cycle between the people that need Plone / Zope and the people that make Plone / Zope, creating an open source business that works, together.
Partnership of ZEA is open to key businesses of the Zope world. Selection is based on expertise, professionalism and proven track record with astrict vetting process. These companies are actively collaborating in the development of the technology behind Zope, as well as implementing Zope and Plone based solutions in a wide range of sectors and countries.
Collaborating with the original software creators provides many benefits above a standard commercial software offering. The primary short-term benefit to the customer is the delivery of a higher quality end product by dealing directly with experts in their respective fields. Being open source provides additional benefits and return on investment as improvements in the core software are shared amongst other organisations, lowering maintenance costs and pooling shared knowledge.
Technologies
- Content management systems (CMS) are a software system used to assist its users in the process of content management. A CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content. A CMS often facilitates the collaborative creation of documents.
- Plone is a content management system that is simple to set up, maintain, and modify. It is designed to be a corporate-ready content management system. It is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document/Web publishing system, and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities.
- Silva is is a CMS developed by our Dutch partner Infrae. Designed for large organizations that manage multiple or complex websites, the system is user and administrator friendly and maps perfectly to an organizational hierarchy. It includes advanced features such as versioning, XML export/import, and easily variable presentation.
- Zope is an application server specializing in content management, intranets, and custom Web applications. It is written in Python and has a large global community of developers and companies.
- Technologies awards
Open source project management and operations
Open source softwares are developed and maintained by an international group of volunteers. Like many open source projects, Plone and Zope have adopted a culture of agile development. How does an open source project operate? Describing the methodology of code and development, process and legal organization.
Team
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Xavier Heymans, CEO
- Nicolas Bossut, project manager
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Paul Everitt, Founder
