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Rectified grammatical errors and Gitter-Discord links in ReadMe file (Issue #21)
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About Plone
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Plone is a mature, secure and user-friendly Content Management System (CMS).
Plone is a mature, secure, and user-friendly Content Management System (CMS).

Plone - and the Open Source community behind it - aggregates more than 15 years experience in content management.
Plone - and the Open Source community behind it - aggregates more than 15 years of experience in content management.
It offers all major features expected by a modern CMS out-of-the-box.

Lots of customizations can be made trough-the-web, such as creating content types, themes, workflows and much more.
Lots of customizations can be made trough-the-web, such as creating content types, themes, workflows, and much more.
Pushed one step further Plone can be used as a framework on which to build custom CMS-like solutions.

Plone works as a

- full-featured classical server-side rendered CMS,
- headless CMS offering all features as a REST API.
- headless CMS offers all features as a REST API.


Installing Plone
-----------------

Plone is available on Microsoft Windows, Linux, OSX and BSD platforms.
Plone is available on Microsoft Windows, Linux, OSX, and BSD platforms.

Plone runs as container in the cloud with Docker.
Plone runs as a container in the cloud with Docker.

`Install Plone by choosing an option from plone.org <https://plone.org/download>`_

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Plone is a ready-to-run content management system, offering a complete set of features needed by a wide variety of organizations.

Security is built into Plone's architecture from the ground up.
Plone offers fine grained permission control over content and actions.
Plone offers fine-grained permission control over content and actions.

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.
and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, websites, extranets, and intranets.

- *Plone is easy to install.*
Several installation options are available for either your local machine or on servers in the cloud.
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In addition, Plone can be scripted using web standard solutions and Open Source languages.

- *Plone is technology neutral.*
Plone can interoperate with most relational database systems, open source and commercial, and runs on a vast array of
platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and BSD.
Plone can interoperate with most relational database systems, open source, and commercial, and runs on a vast array of
platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, and BSD.


Technical overview
------------------

Plone is a content management platform written in Python.
It builds upon Zope, an Open Source web application server and development system and thus on the pluggable Zope Component Architecture (ZCA).
It builds upon Zope, an Open Source web application server and development system, and thus on the pluggable Zope Component Architecture (ZCA).

Python is the easy-to-learn, widely-used and supported Open Source programming language.
Python can be used to add new features to Plone, and used to understand or make changes to the way that Plone works.
Python is the easy-to-learn, widely-used, and supported Open Source programming language.
Python can be used to add new features to Plone and used to understand or make changes to the way that Plone works.

Plone stores its contents in Zope's built-in transactional hierachical object database, the ZODB.
The ZODB can be connected to simple file-storages, scalable ZEO-Servers or Postgres, MySQL and Oracle.
There are addon and techniques, however, to share information with other sources, such as relational databases, LDAP, filesystem
Plone stores its contents in Zope's built-in transactional hierarchical object database, the ZODB.
The ZODB can be connected to simple file-storages, scalable ZEO-Servers or Postgres, MySQL, and Oracle.
There are addons and techniques, however, to share information with other sources, such as relational databases, LDAP, filesystem
files, etc.


Official Resources
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* `plone.com <https://plone.com/>`_ - Official website for decision makers and evaluators.
* `plone.org <https://plone.org/>`_ - Official website for developers and community.
* `plone.org <https://plone.org/>`_ - Official website for developers, community, decision makers and evaluators.
* `Plone support <https://plone.org/support>`_ - Where to find help.
* `community.plone.org <https://community.plone.org/>`_ - Official community forum, the best place to get help.
* `docs.plone.org <https://docs.plone.org/>`_ - Official documentation for developers/integrators.
* `training.plone.org <https://training.plone.org/>`_ - Training classes for developers/integrators/users/designers.
* `plone.api <https://docs.plone.org/develop/plone.api/docs/index.html>`_ - Documentation for plone.api.
* `plone.restapi <https://plonerestapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_ - Documentation for plone.restapi.
* `official Gitter chat <https://gitter.im/plone/public>`_ - monitored.
* `official Discord chat <https://discord.com/invite/zFY3EBbjaj>`_ - monitored.

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