Erik Rose has consulted on the launch of dozens of education-domain Plone sites at Pennsylvania State University. As a lead developer at Penn State's WebLion group, he works with professors and departmental webmasters on everything from courseware sites to complex custom applications. Rose maintains several popular Plone plug-ins including Faculty/Staff Directory, WebServerAuth, and CustomNav and contributes to many other projects, including Archetypes, RedirectionTool, ArchGenXML, CSSManager, and Trac. He created WebLion Hosting, a large-scale Plone hosting platform, and founded the WebLion Wiki, now one of the largest repositories of Plone knowledge on the web.
Rose also takes an active role in Plone itself. He is a member of the Plone Foundation and serves on both the Plone 4 and Plone 5 framework teams, acting as spokesperson for the latter. He speaks at world and regional Plone conferences about software architecture, hosting, and documentation, and can be found helping people daily on the #plone IRC channel.