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Get started

If you think you may be well served by the VonGogo Networks Co-Operative, consider these criterion:

1. You should be an independent artist, professional, or another non-profit organization.  Currently, 501(c)3 status nor USA affiliation is necessary pending discretionary review.
2. You and/or your organization should be more concerned about having a highly scalable, accessible, standards-compliant, semantic, content-oriented presence than an affinity towards any particular technology.
3. You shouldn't want to waste money.
4. You should want to support our efforts, as we are likely to accept you at no cost until you are satisfied and can leave your current configuration behind by paying us less.
   

Get comfortable

After that, we suggest you do one or more of the following:

• Find out What's new in Plone 3.0.
• Read the documentation, especially the What documentation should I read and Server setup recommendations.
• Explore the available add-on products for Plone.
• Read and/or subscribe to the support forums.

Make it your own

Plone has a lot of different settings that can be used to make it do what you want it to. Some examples:

• Try out a different theme, either pick from the included ones, or one of the available themes from plone.org. (Make sure the theme is compatible with the version of Plone you are currently using)
• Decide what kind of workflow you want in your site. (The default is a website-centric workflow, if you want to use Plone as a closed intranet, you should adjust your workflow settings accordingly)
• By default, Plone uses a visual editor for content. (If you prefer text-based syntax and/or wiki syntax, you can change this in the markup control panel)
• …and many more settings are available in the Site Setup.

Tell us how you use it

Are you doing something interesting with Plone? Big site deployments, interesting use cases? Do you have a company that delivers Plone-based solutions?

• Add your sites to the VonGogo site listing. (Or see what sites are already out there!)
• Add your company as a VonGogo Partner.
• Add a case study describing your deployed project and customer.

Find out more about our architecture

VonGogo.net centers, currently, around the Plone Content Management System.  Plone is based on the Zope application server, and uses the Python programming language. More about these technologies:

• The Plone open source Content Management System web site.
• The Zope application server web site.
• The Python programming language web site.
• Our software stack.
  

Donate to the VonGogo Foundation

VonGogo is made possible only through the efforts of dedicated individuals and companies. The VonGogo Foundation:

• …supports and encourages the endeavors of Students and Independent Professionals.
• …is on its' way to becoming a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization within the USA.
  
• …hosting fees feed operating expenses.

Thanks for using our service, we hope you enjoy it!

— The VonGogo Team