December 2003 - Zope-Announce

PyCon DC 2004 - Submissions Deadline Extended
by Steve Holden 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Dear Python User: We have received many enquiries asking "When and how will I be able to submit my paper to PyCon DC 2004?". This is encouraging news - from the correspondence to date it seems that there will be some interesting and exciting presentations next March. Please be patient as the system to handle submissions goes through to completion. When it is ready, look for a further announcement in the same place as this one. Just a reminder, while I have your attention. Submissions should ideally be in a single file, containing HTML or the reStructured Text format. At a pinch we will be prepared to accept PDF, and either tar or zip files containing sets of coordinated documents (such as an HTML master and the graphics to which it refers). Ulitmately we would like to publish all accepted papers on the web, and these rules should make it easier to do so. If your paper is accepted and you prepare an electronic presentation (in PDF, PythonPoint or PowerPoint) we will also happily publish that on the web site when PyCon is over. So, have at it! Anything describing the uses of Python, or better ways of teaching it, neat tricks for developers and suggestions for improvement to the language or its community is fair game. It's likely we will have a larger proportion of students attending in 2004, so we are particularly encouraging presentations with an educational spin, including material of a more introductory nature. Don't forget, too, that even if you don't want to make a formal presentation, the Open Space sessions and other informal activities will give everyone plenty of chance to contribute what they know and discuss what they need. PyCon should be *the* place to go to learn more about Python. Please help to ensure this is so. Sincerely Steve Holden Chairman PyCon DC 2004

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Zwiki 0.25 released
by Simon Michael 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Zwiki 0.25 is available at http://zwiki.org and http://zope.org/Members/Simon/Zwiki . See http://zwiki.org/ReleaseNotes for the details. Summary: Fully-functional non-DTML wikis are now supported and default; refactored default skin with macros, CSS and SkinnedFolder support; more zwiki features available in CMF/Plone; quicker comments, improved search, easy tracker setup, much code refactoring, etc. Lots of cleanup and changes this month, including some very positive skin, DTML and hierarchy progress. We've run into a wall with catalog conflict errors but that should be solvable. Dare I say it, the docs situation is showing signs of improvement too. Jump in and help if you can. Happy holidays and merry christmas! 3:-)

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Epoz 0.7.1 released - critical bug fix for 0.7.0
by Maik Jablonski 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hi to all, I've just released Epoz 0.7.1 - a critical bug fix for all people who installed Epoz 0.7.0 (the XHTML-release of Epoz). What is Epoz? Epoz is a cross-browser-wysiwyg-editor for Zope and Plone. It works out of the box with InternetExplorer >= 5.5, Mozilla >= 1.3, Firebird >= 0.7 and other "Gecko"-based browsers with a recent engine. Is Epoz now XHTML-compatible? Yes, it is. It uses the mxTidy-module (download http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/mxTidy.html) over XMLRPC to transform the HTML to XHTML on the fly. There was a severe bug in the 3.party-vcXMLRPC-modul which resulted in Mozilla truncating the XHTML to 4096 characters, so please upgrade if you installed Epoz 0.7.0 or data may be lost. Can I see a demo? http://www.zfl.uni-bielefeld.de/personal/mjablonski/epoz/ Where can I download Epoz? http://www.zope.org/Members/mjablonski/Epoz/ What are the changes in the 0.7.x-release? 0.7.0 - added support for mxTidy to produce nice and valid xhtml-code. - added site-hook EpozPostTidy, so you can change the output of Epoz with an additional script / external method. Useful if you want to clean up or rewrite (absolute) links etc.pp. - added missing language support for Plone. 0.7.1 - fixed critical bug: Mozilla truncated contents to 4096 bytes received from EpozTidy over XMLRPC due to a bug in the string-code of the vcXMLRPC-library. - fixed critical bug: if mxTidy found errors in html, an empty document was returned to Epoz. JavaScript-alert informs the user about critical errors in document. And what is this thing with Epoz 0.x and Epoz 1.x? There's an ongoing effort on http://sf.net/projects/epoz to develop a next generation of Epoz (1.x), based on new ideas and on a new design. Guido Wesdorp, Philipp von Weitershausen and Paul Everitt have done a great job working on Epoz (1.x). The developement of the original Epoz (0.x) will continue because I run several applications which I can't easily update to Epoz (1.x) in the near future. Keep zoped, Maik Jablonski -- German Zope User Group / Deutsche Zope User Group http://www.dzug.org/

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PyCon DC 2004 - Registration about to open!
by Steve Holden 01 Dec '03

01 Dec '03

Dear Python User: You have probably been wondering why you haven't yet heard that PyCon has opened its doors for registration. Well, we are a volunteer organization, and it often takes more time than anticipated to put things together. Welcome to the world of open source :-) I am happy to be able to tell you that thanks to sterling work by Trevor Toenjes we are now in a position to accept your registrations. All you need to do is navigate to http://dc2004reg.pycon.org/ and make the appropriate entries. This year we all have the opportunity to add a PSF donation to the registration fee, and I hope many of you will follow my example and donate a little extra to assist the Foundation in its goals. There is still lots to be done -- for example, we are *also* late with the system to accept submissions, so the original December 1 deadline will be extended by at least a month to ensure that everyone gets plenty of chance to submit papers telling us what they've been up to with Python. We are also encouraging students to attend the conference by giving them a significant reduction from the standard fee, and we hope that this will result in even wider participation by the educational community. Last year was an exciting departure from the traditional "professional" conference format, and I hope that we will be able to improve on it next time. I look forward to seeing you there! Sincerely Steve Holden Chairman PyCon DC 2004

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10th Edition of ZopeMag Weekly News
by Mark Pratt 01 Dec '03

01 Dec '03

Hi, We are pleased to announce the 10th edition of the ZopeMag Weekly News! http://weekly.zopemag.com/ Thanks to all those who had kind words or constructive suggestions on how we can improve this service. Thanks to all our ZopeMag subscribers for making this service possible! Cheers, Mark

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ANN: TextIndexNG 2.03 released
by Andreas Jung 01 Dec '03

01 Dec '03

I just released TextIndexNG 2.0.3. This is an optimization release :-) and features a new internal hashing datastructure that avoids needless reindexing of objects that have not changed. This should improve reindexing performance significantly. Upgraders should reindex their TextIndexNG2 indexes after installation. This release is available from Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50052 Docs are available as usual from http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG -aj

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