(This episode premiered on April 16, 2024, as part of World Plone Day 2024)

Paul Everitt might not have actually invented the internet but he was in the room for and perhaps even the person behind the creation of the U.S. Navy’s web site: www.navy.mil over 30 years ago.

First Plone Foundation president, co-founder of Zope Corporation, ZEA Partners, and Agendaless Consulting, Paul is one of those guys who is smart as a whip, boatloads of fun to be around, and (goldurnit!) good looking to boot.

Yes, you just end up gritting your teeth but you want to be around him and hear his great stories.

In this episode, we roll back the years to the time when software was delivered on diskette, people read books, and Python was just getting started on the web.

(You can catch the video of this episode at https://youtu.be/sWZnSLIIwCA and enjoy Paul and Kim's facial expressions and special hand signs)

Godefroid Chapelle is a longtime Zope and Plone developer who first encountered Zope in its hectic heyday and was a participant at the first in-person Plone sprint.

We cover a lot of ground in this episode as Godefroid reflects on:

• his origins as a programmer
• being present at the first EuroPython
• the difference between hackathons and sprints
• the culture of organizations and communities
• monkey patching as conflict avoidance
• how Zope's component architecture enabled Plone's diverse community
• reading code as poetry
• the importance of mentoring in coding
• tools that teach best practices
• repeatability with buildout and Nix
• Hashicorp
• the main selling point of Zope
• Rust and other typed languages
• Python tracebacks and the topology of code.

David Glick has been a Plone core contributor for 15 years and is one of the originators of the Dexterity content type framework. In this episode we talk about the cycle of contribution to our long-lived project and community and how Plone's future is excitingly open.

See this episode on YouTube