MAY 2004-I'm on a flight to Las Vegas, Nevada, to announce at CA World 2004 the formation of the nonprofit Plone Foundation. Whilst on the plane, I'm also writing this foreword for the book-something I'm excited to see released as open source. Both are pieces in the bigger jigsaw puzzle of Plone, and I'm thrilled to see the holes in the puzzle being filled. Over the past two weeks, the focus of the Plone community has moved from purely technical to much more unfamiliar territory: marketing. The Las Vegas trip will end with Computer Associates announcing that it's sponsoring the Plone...

This volume analyzes determinants of pro-poor growth in eight countries. It emphasises the role of regional inequality, price and policy reforms as well as political economy issues affecting pro-poor growth at the country level. It also analyzes the impact of agricultural, labour market policies, macroeconomics and natural resource policies.

When The Definitive Guide to Plone e first arrived on bookshelves in 2004, Plone 2. 0 had just been released and had little notable open source competition. The first edition of The Defi- tive Guide e provided a truly comprehensive overview of the features of this early version of Plone and brought many new users to Plone. It was a major landmark for Plone and for open source content management systems (CMSs) in general. In the intervening years, the open source CMS universe has expanded rapidly. There are now dozens of competing open source CMSs, from humble blogging platforms to flexible...