March 2003 - Zope-Announce

FYI - Zope TurboIntranet training April 28 - May 1
by Brian Lloyd 28 Mar '03

28 Mar '03

Hi all - (I'm copying this to the zope list since some who have asked for more information have made the point that they don't watch the zope-announce list.) We've received a lot of feedback from the community over time about the desire for more advanced Zope training options. We are happy to now be able to offer Zope TurboIntranet training, which combines a professional product (with source code) with advanced training that covers Zope, the CMF architecture and the intranet product itself. For those that may be interested, a ZTI class is coming up April 28 - May 1. More info is available at: http://www.zope.com/ZTICommunityAnnounce Please send questions or requests for more info to training(a)zope.com rather than me directly. Flames can go to me directly :^) Brian Lloyd brian(a)zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com

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DirectoryStorage 1.1 beta 1
by Toby Dickenson 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am pleased to announce the first beta release version 1.1. This has been a long time moving from alpha to beta release, so I expect this beta cycle to move quickly. Changes in this release include: 1. Replication! Keep an online backup copy of your storage up to date with the latest changes from the master. I am currently running this from cron every minute of the day. Like the rest of DirectoryStorage this is designed to be robust, safe, and manageable. Replication is efficient - It uses ssh to connect replica to master. If your users have added a 100k file to your storage then replication is only marginally less efficient than using scp to copy a 100k file. Full Documentation is at http://dirstorage.sourceforge.net/replica.html 2. Some tweaks to the packing strategy. This shaves a little time and memory when packing a typical storage. 3. Support for classes that keep their history longer than normal. This is useful if you want to keep all revisions of a class for auditing purposes, or because you want to view extra history of a class using a Zope 'history' tab. 4. Support for keeping less information about ancient transactions. This is typically a 5% space saving if you dont mind Zope's history tab showing nothing for objects that havent been modified since the last pack. 5. Added read-only mode. 6. This release does not fix any critical bugs. Anyone happy with 1.0.0 need not feel any pressure to upgrade. Download here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53818&release_id=1491… Detailed Change Log: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dirstorage/DirectoryStorage/… Discussion: dirstorage-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+guC499Pa/DbwZfsRAkYtAJ4vNJZv/1OVENsdkDTQRcC/ueJU/QCfckFo RCe39/jpvS+ifyQm6m/rOF0= =cK4g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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MPoll 1.0 Released
by Magnus Heino 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

Hi. I just released MPoll, a simple cookie based Poll product. It requires Archetypes (http://www.sf.net/projects/archetypes) and Plone (http://www.plone.org) Get it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/collective/ -- /Magnus

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NZO Alpha Announcement
by Sidnei da Silva 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Greetings, Its been quite some time since I announced the pre-Alpha state of NZO. Lots of things happened since then, and as promised, Im releasing today the alpha version of NZO. Improvements worth of note on this version: - Trackers were migrated to CMFCollector - How-Tos and Tips were migrated - Loads of cleanups on CSS and HTML. - CMFPackage (Software Product) now has MD5 checksums - All content of Zope.org except /Wikis (pending a hand from Shane with a misbehaving script) as of March 14 was migrated. - Objects have a 'obsolete' workflow state, that will be used to mark old content and remove it on the next round of migration. - The search page has a google-like look. There is a lot of room for improvement still, and some things that need to be solved, like migrating memberdata safely to LDAP and cleaning ancient content and DTML methods that may cause infinite recursion. Many thanks to the people that gave suggestions so far, Peter, Paul, Jan, George, and Tonico who made the last mockup which in my opinion was one of the biggest improvements. On the following weeks, we will be discussing the next steps on getting this to replace the current Zope.org and will continue improving whats here. The collector for reporting bugs can be found at: http://collector.zope.org/ZopeOrg []'s -- Sidnei da Silva (dreamcatcher) <sidnei(a)x3ng.com.br> X3ng Web Technology <http://www.x3ng.com.br> GNU/Linux user 257852 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Sid) 2.4.18 ppc Function reject.

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Plone Sprint: Victoria 3-4 th May
by Andy McKay 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

The next Plone Sprint is in Victoria, BC, Canada on the 3rd and 4th of May. Information page: http://plone.org/events/sprints/victoria Currently we half a dozen people attending from Vancouver, Victoria, Portland and Hawaii - but have room for plenty more. Topics covered are: Documentation, Installers and GUI Controller. But this is based on who's coming and tailored to suit the group. There's room for everyone. Whats a sprint? Basically a bunch of people sit in a room for hours on end and work on stuff. Its a great chance to learn new things, meet other people and contribute back to the project. Look forward to seeing you there. -- Andy McKay

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Plone Training in Bern/Zurich, Switzerland April 3th / April 11th (missing URL included)
by Bernhard Bühlmann 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

4teamwork, a leading Swiss company for Zope and Plone Solutions, schedules two Plone Trainings in April 2003: April 3: Plone Training in Berne April 11: Plone Training in Zurich Visit our website to find out more about our courses including our latest course offerings: http://4teamwork.info/produkte/kurse Kind regards - B. Buehlmann - 4teamwork

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Plone Training in Bern/Zurich, Switzerland April 3th / April 11th
by Bernhard Bühlmann 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

4teamwork, a leading Swiss company for Zope and Plone Solutions, schedules two Plone Trainings in April 2003: April 3: Plone Training in Berne April 11: Plone Training in Zurich Visit our website to find out more about our courses including our latest course offerings: Kind regards - B. Buehlmann - 4teamwork

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PloneArticle v0.2 Released !
by Olivier DECKMYN - IngeniWeb 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

Howdy all, Ingeniweb, leading french company for Zope hosting and engineering is proud to announce the availability of a new content type for Plone : PloneArticle. This product is very simple to use and allows user to : - Create online full articles - Use Plone-integrated WYSIWYG Editor - Attach Images to article : - Images are stored fullsize, displayed as thumbnails and viewable in a popup - As many images as needed - Attach Documents or Files to Articles (as many as needed) : - attachments can be any file type. - MSWord, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, Text or HTML files will also be indexed along with the Article ! - Search a word from the attachment : you will directly find the article ! - Support Workflows Projet is fully Open-Source and hosted at SourceForge. Download here : http://sourceforge.net/projects/ingeniweb Have a nice plone day :-) -- Olivier DECKMYN - CTO 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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CMContentPanels 1.0 released! (a replacement for CMFPortlets)
by 潘俊勇\(panjunyong\) 22 Mar '03

22 Mar '03

Have you tried the famous "CMFportalts":http://www.zope.org/Members/ausum/CMFPortlets ? Do you want another one which store portlets layout information in a CMF content to build public portlets page but not in a member's private memberdata? Do you want to support more existing contents without creating any new content type? Do you want a easier way to write new box skins? Do you want a total Plone support and more clean code? Maybe CMFContentPanels is your right choice now. CMFContentPanels is totally rewrite from CMFPortlets. It is a CMF/Plone Content which have panels showing other contents to build complex page easily. You can change the box skin for each content panel. The product page is here: http://www.zope.org/Members/panjunyong/CMFContentPanels Enjoy it!

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[ANN] the 2003 Python UK Conference
by John Precedo 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

Announcement of the 2003 Python UK Conference ============================================= The UK Python conference 2003 will take place in Oxford, on Wednesday April 2nd and Thursday 3rd. Speakers including the Python language founder Guido van Rossum, who will deliver the keynote speech. The conference will be held in the pleasant surroundings of Holiday Inn Oxford Pear Tree Roundabout, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 8JD www.holiday-inn.co.uk We are very excited to be working once again with the ACCU to bring the UK Python conference to life. The conference last year was a big success with all attendees, and we hope to repeat that success with a bigger and better line up of speakers, including the Python language founder Guido van Rossum, who will deliver the keynote on Wednesday 2nd April. Other speakers include: Alex Martelli, Andy Todd, Andy Robinson, Anthony Eden, Chris Withers, Duncan Booth, Duncan Grisby, Greg Colvin, Hamish Lawson, Jacob Hallén, Marc-André Lemburg, and Paul Brian. As a taster of the conference we have conducted a series of short interviews with Python luminaries including Guido van Rossum and Eric Raymond. The interviews will be appearing on the conference website. Conference website: http://www.python-uk.org/ Conference Wiki: http://server.reportlab.com/accu-2003/moin.cgi/ To sign up please go to here: http://www.accuconference.co.uk/registration2003.asp And to view the schedule, please go here: http://www.shiningrose.co.uk/pyuk/pyukSchedule_current.html -- John Precedo (johnp(a)reportlab.com) Developer Reportlab Europe Ltd (http://www.reportlab.com)

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