Plone is a ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful zope application server. plone is easy to set up, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets.

it benefits from all features of zope/cmf such as: rdbms integration, python/perl extensions, object oriented database, web configurable workflow, pluggable membership and authentication, undos, form validation, amongst many other features. available protocols: ftp, xmlrpc, http, webdav and you can hack it to enable soap. turn it into a distributed application system by installing zeo.

this package setups a zope instance ready to be used with a plone site.