About the Author

Alex Clark is a Plone consultant from Bethesda, MD, USA. He currently operates a busy open source consulting firm, along with his wife and business partner, Amy Clark. He also operates a non-profit organization that supports the local Python developer community by organizing monthly meetings, trainings, sprints, conferences, and more. For more information, please see http://aclark.net and http://zpugdc.org respectively.

Alex is a co-author of "Practical Plone 3", Packt Publishing (https://www.packtpub.com/practical-plone-3-beginners-guide-to-building-powerful-websites/book) and this book marks his first sole authorship. He hopes it will empower individuals, organizations and the world to use and contribute to Plone!

I would like to thank the following people for their assistance in writing this book: Amy Clark, Chris McDonough, Chris Shenton, Darshana Shinde, David Glick, Erik Rose, Fernando Correa Neto, Gilles Lenfant, Hanno Schichting, Krutika Katelia, Martin Aspeli, Matt Bowen, Matthew Wilkes, Michael Dunlap, Rashmi Phadnis, Reed O'Brien, Ricardo Newbery, Steve McMahon, Tarek Ziadé, Veda Williams, Wichert Akkerman, Zainab Bagasrawala, and you, if I forgot to thank you!

Also, I would be remiss if I did not thank the giants whose shoulders I am fortunate enough to stand on every day: Guido Van Rossum for Python, Jim Fulton for Zope, and Alexander Limi and Alan Runyan for Plone. Thank you!