February 2003 - Zope-Announce

Pan European Portal Conference 2003
by Dario Lopez-Kästen 21 Feb '03

21 Feb '03

---<BEGIN FORWARDED MSG>--- Pan European Portal Conference 2003 Geneva, April 24-25, 2003 Welcome to beautiful Geneva and a two-day conference on Portals. The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for IT-professionals in the Higher Education community to meet, discuss and share ideas of current information infrastructure. It is meant to be slightly more a technical conference than an IT-manager conference. This also means that the conference is more aimed to toward the actual meeting of people and the hope of vivid discussions. You as a participant will have a large impact on the result and experience of the conference. The conference webpage at http://www.codex-se.org/pepc2003/ contain all the latest information, registration, recommendations for hotels, directions and more. The conference is sponsored by SUN thus reducing the cost for the conference to 50 euro per person. The last day to register to the conference is the 15:th of April. Speakers attend the conference for free. The agenda is still under construction, and potential speakers are very welcome to contact Joakim Björklund joakim(a)unit.liu.se and/or David Billard David.Billard(a)adm.unige.ch. The conference is hosted by University of Geneva. ---<END FORWARDED MSG>--- /dario - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Lopez-Kästen, IT Systems & Services Chalmers University of Tech.

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TriZPUG February Meeting: Zope - Two talks from the source
by Tom Bryan 21 Feb '03

21 Feb '03

The Triangle Zope/Python User Group (TriZPUG) will hold its fourth meeting this Wednesday, February 26, at 6:30 p.m. in Raleigh, NC. We will be meeting in the DELTA conference room(s) at Venture III, who has kindly permitted us to use their meeting room, on NCSU's Centennial Campus. Directions to Venture III are below. This month, we have two very special speakers. Rob Page and Jim Fulton from Zope Corporation will be in town and have agreed to give two talks. The first part of the presentation will help describe the "open source machine" -- at least as it operates at Zope Corporation. The second half will be more technical and should give you a better understanding of Zope 3. For those of you who plan to attend but are not TriZPUG members (listed on the TriZPUG wiki), please add your name to the following page. It will help us ensure that we have sufficient room for the audience http://dev.zope.org/Members/tbryan/TriZPUG/NonMemberAttendee We hope to see you there! Title: Zope - Two talks from the source ======================================= Zope Corporation is busy on many fronts including custom application development, the ongoing development of Zope 2.x, the development of Zope 3.x, and the development of a series of "visible source" products. Zope Corp Update and Intro to Turbo Intranet (Rob Page) ------------------------------------------------------- The first part of this presentation will be an introduction to one such Visible Souce Product (Turbo Intranet) -- details available at: http://www.zope.com/Products/ZopeProducts/TurboTraining If you'd like to hear about an economical way to get an intranet up and running quickly AND get the source code, this presentation is for you. Title: Zope 3 Update (Jim Fulton) --------------------------------- The second part of this presentation will cover Zope 3.x from a technical perspective. If you haven't had the time or energy to stay in tune with Zope 3 -- here's your chance to get up to speed quickly. Directions to the TriZPUG Meeting: ================================== Note that we will be meeting in our new location at NCSU's Centennial Campus. If you need directions to NCSU's Centennial Campus, try the following link http://centennial.ncsu.edu/howtogethere/htgh.htm If you need directions to the Venture III building, follow this link http://lts.ncsu.edu/about/venture3.html, but skip step #3 since the meeting is after hours. For more about TriZPUG: ======================= Web page http://dev.zope.org/Members/tbryan/TriZPUG/FrontPage Mailing list http://starship.python.net/mailman/listinfo/triangle-zpug

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ANNOUNCE: Pound - reverse proxy and load balancer - v1.3
by Robert Segall 19 Feb '03

19 Feb '03

This is to announce the release of Pound v1.3. Changes in this version: - added support for OpenSSL Engine (crypto hardware) - added support for Subversion WebDAV directives - Pound can now be used to load-balance several Subversion servers - added support for mandatory client certificates (please note that this implies a slight change in the config file syntax - see the HTTPSHeaders section in the man page). - added X-SSL-serial header for SSL connections to show the client certificate serial number (for checking against CRLs). - fixed several code problems (BIO_pending now works reliably). - fixed a problem with multi-threading in OpenSSL - SSL connections should now be more stable. - improved autoconf The software is at version 1.3 (production quality). Further testing (especially under heavy loads), improvements and suggestions are welcome. 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 and the presence or absence of headers (pattern matching) Pound was specifically developed to serve as a front-end for multiple instances of Zope running on top of a common ZEO storage, but can be used with any other web server. A patch for the Python source of z2.py is available as part of the distribution to allow using Pound's SSL capabilities. Pound is currently in use in several medium to large volume sites and seems to be holding up quite well: largest reported site does about 3.5 million requests per day, peaking at over 300 requests per second. The speed is well superior to other, equivalent solutions, the configuration is much simpler and the necessary resources (CPU, RAM, disk) are much, much lower. Pound is distributed under the GPL. For further information, download, etc. please see http://www.apsis.ch/pound 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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DocmaServer first public release
by Martijn Faassen 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

Infrae is happy to announce DocmaServer, a standalone application that integrates with Silva to generate and read structured MS Word documents. Edit Silva content from within Word, or edit Word documents from within Silva! You can find DocmaServer here: http://www.zope.org/Members/infrae/DocmaServer DocmaServer 0.2 integrates with Silva 0.9.1 (beta): http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/Silva

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ZAttachment Attribute released
by Olivier DECKMYN - IngeniWeb 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

Howdy, Here is a new MSWord,Excel,PDF (and many more) integration module. Directly attach real-life content file into any Zope application (including CMF or Plone). This is not a product, it's an attribute : this means you can use it on ANY of your product. ZAttachmentAttribute is used to help use of simple attachment files with user-created Zope products. Attachment support the following features : - Indexable (ZCatalog searches possible __inside__ content) - Automatic Icon, depending on uploaded filetype - Automatic filename change on download The following file types are supported : - MS Word - MS Excel - MS PowerPoint - Adobe PDF - Image files (gif, jpeg, png) - Audio (MP3) - Video (AVI, MPEG) It is pluggable, which means you can make it support new file types. http://www.zope.org/Members/ingeniweb/ZAttachmentAttribute Cheers, -- Olivier DECKMYN INGENIWEB (TM) - SARL 50000 Euros - RC B 438 725 632 2 cours du 14 Juillet - 78300 Poissy France - +331 300 601 41 web : www.ingeniweb.com - « les Services Web Ingénieux » PGP : http://www.ingeniweb.com/keys/olivier.deckmyn

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ZCybermut 1.0 Released
by Olivier DECKMYN - IngeniWeb 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

Hi, To help people with their e-commerce website, we just released ZCybermut 1.0 : ZCybermut is a small but effective product dedicated to simplify usage of the Cybermut payment system from Zope. http://www.zope.org/Members/ingeniweb/zcybermut1 Cheers, -- Olivier DECKMYN INGENIWEB (TM) - SARL 50000 Euros - RC B 438 725 632 2 cours du 14 Juillet - 78300 Poissy France - +331 300 601 41 web : www.ingeniweb.com - « les Services Web Ingénieux » PGP : http://www.ingeniweb.com/keys/olivier.deckmyn

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GroupUserFolder released
by Olivier DECKMYN - IngeniWeb 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

Hi all ! We just release GroupUserFolder : GroupUserFolder is a kind of user folder that provides a special kind of user management. Some users are "flagged" as GROUP and then normal users will be able to belong to one or serveral groups. It is the only known implementation that does not require ANY patch, and should work with ANY Zope product, and ANY zope user backend. http://www.zope.org/Members/ingeniweb/groupuserfolder1 Cheers, -- Olivier DECKMYN INGENIWEB (TM) - SARL 50000 Euros - RC B 438 725 632 2 cours du 14 Juillet - 78300 Poissy France - +331 300 601 41 web : www.ingeniweb.com - « les Services Web Ingénieux » PGP : http://www.ingeniweb.com/keys/olivier.deckmyn

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Plone Minimal Product
by Olivier DECKMYN 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

Bonjour , Hi there, Just to let you know that we also released a very useful component for Plone : http://www.zope.org/Members/ingeniweb/PloneMinimalProduct1 This package contains too products : - an item content type - a folderish content type Both the example are stupid, but contain ALL the necessary code to start a new content type. This is a base software for all of our content types. This is not a competitor for CMFTypes, it's just another way of doing it. Hope that helps. Cheers, Olivier DECKMYN. Ingeniweb.

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Press Release: The Plone Team Releases Plone 1.0
by Alexander Limi 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

The Plone Team Releases Plone 1.0 Professional Open Source System For Managing Content Paris, France -- At the SolutionsLinux 2003 conference, the Plone Team released Plone 1.0, bringing open source into the world of professional systems for managing content. Plone is an open source information management system available in 22 languages, and has a large and active community supporting it. Plone marries design and usability to Zope, the award-winning application server, which provides a powerful open source architecture for rich content and rich content services. The combination provides administrative workflow, multimedia, metadata, integrated search, and the industry's first standards-compliant templating system. Other open-source add-ons provide Plone with integration of documents written in Microsoft Word and OpenOffice, PDF generation, versioning and more. "The Plone infrastructure provides an easy, attractive installation that gives you a professional system in a matter of minutes. The team is passionate about the user experience, and much time has gone into refining and finishing the product", usability analyst Alexander Limi from the Plone Team stated at the release event. The polished installers and integrated products make installation and deployment of Plone far more attractive than other systems. Once installed, users will find a productive environment for authoring, searching, and managing content. "Plone marks an important milestone for Free Software," says Nicolas Pettiaux, ICT manager of Commission Communautaire Française in Brussels. "We now have a complete system for managing information that competes head to head with major proprietary Content Management Systems. For large organizations, as we are in public administration, the arrival of a professional, workflow-oriented system will make Free Software the leading strategy it deserves to be." Plone is available for a number of platforms, including Windows, MacOS X, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. Notable users of Plone include NASA, Government of Hawaii, Lufthansa, and University College London. Plone can be downloaded from the website - http://plone.org/download About Plone Plone is an open source system for managing information and administering content. Plone is backed by Plone International, a non-profit located in France. The organization holds the copyright, and Plone is available under a dual licencing scheme, both the GPL and a commercial license. Plone was founded in 1999 by Alan Runyan (USA), Alexander Limi (Norway) and Vidar Andersen (Norway), and has core developers in 14 different countries. Before the 1.0 release, Plone had already already passed 15 000 downloads. For more information and download options, see http://plone.org. About Zope Zope is a leading open source application server, specializing in content management, portals, and custom applications. Since Zope Corporation introduced Zope as an open source product in 1998, it has become the platform of choice for content publishers, managers, and application developers. As an open source product, Zope comes with complete source code and no software licensing fees. Zope is managed by the global Zope community, with thousands of developers and companies participating worldwide. More information, including the Zope source code, is available at www.zope.org. Press contacts Paul Everitt, Director of Zope Europe Association: paul(a)zope-europe.org The original version of this press release can be found here: http://plone.org/pr/pressreleases/plone1.0-release

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RevisionManager 1.0 released
by Philipp von Weitershausen 16 Feb '03

16 Feb '03

Hello everbody, I am proud to announce RevisionManager 1.0. RevisionManager is a CVS frontend product for Zope. It brings the power of a great revision control tool to the ZODB. As expected, the step from the latest release candidate (rc4) was not too great. Changes include: * The items in 'Status' tab are batched now. The batch size is variable. * An exception is raised if the CVS command returns a positive return value. Before, errors were silently ignored. This will not work on platforms that do not support return values (e.g. Windows). See CHANGES.txt for further information. RevisionManager works stable and still performs quite well with over 1000 managed objects. It is provided "as is" and without any warranties, of course. Backups are advised. You may download it at: http://www.zope.org/Members/philikon/RevisionManager RevisionManager is a work in progress and development has not ended with this 1.0 release. Help, suggestions and, of course, bugfixes are greatly appreciated! Cheers, Phil

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