November 1999 - Zope-Announce

German Zope ML
by Sven Kirmess 03 Nov '99

03 Nov '99

I've created a German ML for Zope. The Address is: zope-de(a)onelist.com You can subscribe by sending a mail to the following address: mailto:zope-de-subscribe@onelist.com Sven -- PGP-Key-ID: 0x881BF222

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O'Reilly to publish Zope Book
by Michel Pelletier 02 Nov '99

02 Nov '99

Greetings, I'm pleased to announce that Dan York, the Linuxcare Certification Program Manager, and myself, have come to an agreement with O'Reilly and Associates to author a Zope book. The book will be published under a not-yet agreed upon Open Content license. This means that during the evolution of the book, you will be able to view and download the material for your own information needs. We hope that this also means you will kindly help point out mistakes or gaping holes in the material before it is printed by the publisher. One of our goals is that this book will benefit from the same community involvement that has made Zope such a great success. Since before I started working at Digital Creations, I've had a Zope book in mind. Of course, I wasn't the first to think of it; Paul and Hadar had in mind a 'Bobo Book' (Bobook?) for a while. My original material was called 'The Zen of Zope' and was defiantly high-fiber, developer oriented material. I met Dan York at the LinuxExpo this year. I gave him a tour through Zope and he showed me the kinds of things that Linuxcare was doing to support the linux community. When he found out I was working on a book, he was interested immediately in co-authoring it. Dan has published books with Que in the past, and is key in authoring training and certification materials for linux and linux courseware. Dan and I began working on a 'new' outline to present to publishers. When we started talking to publishers, we realized that our outline was much too complex, and that what Zope really needed was a gentle introductory book. Advanced or reference books may come later, but first there must be a simple, introductory book that will stand the test of time and multiple releases of Zope! This is where Paul stepped in, he helped take our outline and bring it down to the level that it needs to be at. I'm hoping that lots of community members will have a hand in the final product, even if their contribution is just a comment on the work. Comments will be strongly encouraged! There is no set title or release date for the book. It will not be any time soon, of course, and we will give everyone several months warning before publication time. O'Reilly cannot take advanced orders for books, so please don't contact them with your credit-card in hand, the people on the order lines won't even know what your talking about. ;) -Michel

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www.zope.org back, a bit late
by Ken Manheimer 01 Nov '99

01 Nov '99

www.zope.org is back, on a different machine and at a different address. The move took way longer than i intended, and some of you may have gotten into the system while it was in transition (between 11:00 and 12:00 am, EST), in which case you may *not* see some of your changes! I'm really sorry about the confusion and the delay - this turned out to be a more complicated transition than i expected. ALSO NOTE, those of you using caching servers may get to the wrong machine until the DNS time-to-live for the old record expires. If, when visiting http://www.zope.org, you get a page saying only "www2.zope.org", then try using another name for the site - http://yyy.zope.org . This will be moot when the dns records expire, later today, but in the meanwhile we know how much you'd miss your favorite haunt if you had to wait... Happy halloween, for those of you that practice it!-) Ken Manheimer klm(a)digicool.com

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FYI: PORPIGgies meeting; Zope talk tonight
by Amos Latteier 01 Nov '99

01 Nov '99

Hi, Just a reminder that tonight at 7pm is the PORPIG (Portland, Oregon Python Interest Group) meeting. I'll be speaking about Zope, so if you're in Portland (or can get there by 7pm tonight ;-) this is your chance to ask Zope development questions in person. Plus there are free eats! -Amos P.S. For more info about PORPIGgies get in touch with Ray Price (ray(a)unival.com) Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com -- The next meeting is scheduled for November 1, 1999 and will feature Amos Latteier presenting "Extending Zope in Python" He'll cover the basic avenues for extending Zope in Python, including external methods, zclass base classes, and Python products. The bulk of the talk will be tutorial on building a simple Zope product in Python. He'll explain the basic Zope services that a Python product needs to be aware of: object publishing, persistence, security, and the management framework. The talk will include many examples. Refreshments are once again sponsored by Randall Burns. If you want to attend, you must subscribe to the PORPIG list at www.egroups.com. Building security will only admit list subscribers. Meeting time is 7pm to 9pm at the Benjamin Franklin Building, One SW Columbia, Portland Oregon.

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Reminder - brief zope site downtime Monday, ~10am EST (3pm GMT?)
by klm 01 Nov '99

01 Nov '99

Just a reminder that we'll be doing some maintenance on the www.zope.org zope site this morning - we're shifting the site to a machine with less other stuff going on, so we can really discern the effects of tuning, and generally to provide better service all around. I'll post a follow-up when everything's back online - it should be before 10:30. Ken Manheimer klm(a)digicool.com

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