July 2002 - Zope-Announce

Silva mailing list now available
by Martijn Faassen 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

Hi everybody, There is now a mailing list available for Silva, the through-the-web authoring system for Zope. If you're interested in Silva, please subscribe here: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/silva-general and let's talk! And thank you SourceForge.</p> More information about Silva can be found here: http://www.infrae.com/projects/silva Regards, Martijn

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OSCON: Lightning talk spots still open!
by Paul Everitt 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

There are still spots available for lightning talks at next week's O'Reilly Open Source Conference in San Diego, CA. If you are interested, submit a proposal at the following URL: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/create/e_sess?x- t=os2002_lt.create.form --Paul

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Announce StarRave 0-0-10
by Ed Colmar 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

Greetings zope hackers! I am pleased to announce a new release of StarRave, to coincide with the installation on the undisputed king of rave related internet services hyperreal.org This is a big step for StarRave (and zope)... Being that this machine is run by legendary Brian B. (apache, collab.net, etc...) We currently have 6 installs going over there, for different regional areas, and plans to use StarRave for all 18 of them eventually. We have a new appearance (thanks nodeone.com) new simplified install procedures, and a bunch of new admin tools. Again, thanks to everyone who has contributed to make this project great. View a populated StarRave here: www.trust-components.com The live hyperreal sites are: http://www.hyperreal.org:8080/raves/mo http://www.hyperreal.org:8080/raves/pb-cle View the main StarRave Master: http://www.starrave.org Get StarRave for your zope: http://www.zope.org/Members/element/StarRave/ -ed- -- Green Graphics ::: Print and Web Design ::: 510.923.0000

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ANNOUNCE: Pound - reverse proxy and load balancer - v0.6
by Robert Segall 16 Jul '02

16 Jul '02

This is to announce the release of Pound v0.6. Changes from previous version: - added the possibility of using separate backend server(s) by URL type. - moved all configuration options to a file - what with the creeping featuritis the flags were getting too complex. - some minor bug fixes. What is Pound (from the Web page) - a reverse-proxy: it passes requests from client browsers to one or more back-end servers. - a load balancer: it will distribute the requests from the client browsers among several back-end servers, while keeping session information. - an SSL wrapper: Pound will decrypt HTTPS requests from client browsers and pass them as plain HTTP to the back-end browsers. - an HTTP/HTTPS sanitizer: Pound will verify requests for correctness and accept only well-formed ones. - an HTTP/1.1 to 1.0 proxy. - a fail-over-server: should a back-end server fail, Pound will take note of the fact and stop passing requests to it until it recovers. - a request redirector - it will pass client requests to separate groups of servers, based on required URL (pattern matching) For further information, download, etc. please see http://www.apsis.ch/pound The software is at version 0.6 (beta quality). Further testing (especially under heavy loads), improvements and suggestions are welcome. Pound is distributed under the GPL. Enjoy and let me know how it works for you. -- Robert Segall Apsis GmbH Postfach, Uetikon am See, CH-8707 Tel: +41-1-920 4904

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Silva initial public release
by Martijn Faassen 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

Hi there, Infrae is proud to release Silva. Silva is a through-the-web authoring system for structured content (and a lot more, see features). Silva is open source. See here for more information and download: http://www.infrae.com/products/silva http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/Silva Features (version 0.8) Authoring * Through-the-web (browser based) structured document editor. * Editor produces structured XML which can then be displayed as HTML in a web page, or exported (i.e. for publication on paper as PDF or import into MS Word). This also future proofs the information. * Infinitely nested hierarchy of publications and folders to structure content. * Metadata per content object. User Interface * Has its own through-the-web user interface with easy access to all features. * Also possible to descend to Zope user interface for fine-grained control. Workflow and versioning * Publication workflow; approval by (chief)editor is needed in order to publish content. Content can be published as well as expired automatically at a set time. * Versioning of content. Authors can work on new versions of documents while a previous version remains published. * Editor can manage publication status of large quantities of documents in one screen. User management * Separation of responsibilities between author, editor and chief editor roles. * Delegation of responsibilities. Editors can create authors, chief editors can assign editors. No one-person bottleneck holding up publication. * LDAP connection is possible using LDAPUserFolder. Search interface for people in LDAP, scaling to large quantities of users. Technical * Open source & Free Software (BSD license). * Integrates with Zope Page Templates, DTML and Python Scripts. * Extensible Model/View/Controller architecture for both the editor and user interface. * Cross platform; known to work on Linux, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X and SGI.

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zNote Bibliography Mgmt Tool v0.6 released
by John Maxwell 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

zNote Bibliography Management Tool v0.6 released The zNote XML-based Bibliography Management Tool is now in v0.6, which makes it a proper Python-classed product. Also new is full XML import and export, and the ability to choose from multiple bibliographic styles. zNote requires ParsedXML 1.2.1b or better http://www.zope.org/Members/JMaxwell/zNote -- ----------------------------- - John Maxwell jmax(a)portal.ca

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CMF-1.3-beta2 Released
by Tres Seaver 08 Jul '02

08 Jul '02

Zope Corporation is proud to announce the second beta release of version 1.3 of its Content Management Framework (CMF). This release features: - A new calendar object, which manages the presentation of calendar events within the site template. - More customizability for filesystem-based skin methods. - Through-the-web customization of all dynamic, context-sensitive actions. - Improved tracking of content modification times (no longer tied to the underlying database modification time. Plus numerous bugfixes. The final release of version 1.3 should follow within two weeks. What is the CMF? The Zope Content Management Framework provides a set of services and content objects useful for building highly dynamic, content-oriented portal sites. As packaged, the CMF generates a site much like the Zope.org site. The CMF is intended to be easily customizable, in terms of both the types of content used and the policies and services it provides. Resources * The CMF "dogbowl site", http://cmf.zope.org. * The mailing list, zope-cmf(a)zope.org. - "List information / online signup", http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf. - "List archives", http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf Installation Please see "Installing CMF", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.3-beta2/INSTALL.txt Bug Reports Please report any problems to the "CMF Collector", http://collector.zope.org/CMF "README", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.3beta2/README.txt "CHANGES", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.3beta2/CHANGES.txt "Tarball", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.3beta2/CMF-1.3-beta2.tar.gz "ZIP archive", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.3beta2/CMF-1.3-beta2.zip -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver tseaver(a)zope.com Zope Corporation "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.com

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RenderPM
by Dirk Datzert 07 Jul '02

07 Jul '02

Hi all, Drawings with reportlab's graphics toolkit Created by Dirk.Datzert. Last modified on 2002/07/07. RenderPM is a development product and currently only a case study. My intention was to build a product that interact with zope, reportlabs graphics toolkit and databases. The first release is only a case study, how to make the zope part become alive: 1. adding chart objects 2. adding and storing attributes of these chart objects 3. output a small test drawing object based on the input Help me to find out in which way these product can grow ! Regards, Dirk http://www.zope.org/Members/Dirk.Datzert/RenderPM

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Kube 1.6 release
by Isaac Levy 05 Jul '02

05 Jul '02

This quiet release comes with no wild new features, just some small changes. http://www.zope.org/Members/ike/Kube/Kube1.0 IF UPGRADING, please note: The Kube has been given a new security role, 'Manage Properties' has been changed to 'Manage Kube Properties'. Best, Isaac Isaac Levy + Office of Structured Systems http://structuredsystems.net

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ANNOUNCE: Pound - reverse proxy and load balancer - v0.5
by Robert Segall 04 Jul '02

04 Jul '02

This is to announce the release of Pound v0.5. Changes from previous version: - added support for configuration file options (instead of command-line flags). - major code restructuring and splitting. - better Makefile, with support for more systems. - some code fixes. What is Pound (from the Web page) - a reverse-proxy: it passes requests from client browsers to one or more back-end servers. - a load balancer: it will distribute the requests from the client browsers among several back-end servers, while keeping session information. - an SSL wrapper: Pound will decrypt HTTPS requests from client browsers and pass them as plain HTTP to the back-end browsers. - an HTTP/HTTPS sanitizer: Pound will verify requests for correctness and accept only well-formed ones. - an HTTP/1.1 to 1.0 proxy. - a failover-server: should a back-end server fail, Pound will take note of the fact and stop passing requests to it until it recovers. For further information, download, etc. please see http://www.apsis.ch/pound The software is at version 0.5 (beta quality). Further testing (especially under heavy loads), improvements and suggestions are welcome. Pound is distributed under the GPL. Enjoy and let me know how it works for you. -- Robert Segall Apsis GmbH Postfach, Uetikon am See, CH-8707 Tel: +41-1-920 4904

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