April 2004 - Zope-Announce

New mailing list to discuss zope interfaces
by Jim Fulton 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

I've created a new mailing list at: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/interface-dev to discuss Zope interfaces. Zope interfaces provide a means of: - Documenting and specifying object behavior - Defining component connections To find out more about Zope interfaces, see the Zope Interface Wiki at: http://zope.org/Wikis/Interfaces Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org

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Europython news update 14 april 2004
by Martijn Faassen 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

Europython news update ====================== - Due to our earlier delays, we have decided to push the deadline for submitting talks until the 26th of April. While we have a nice set of proposals in several tracks, there are some that neeed a boost. Submit your talk today! - Early Bird registration is open, as is registration for cheap accomodation. Deadline for both of these is 1 May 2004. This deadline will not move. - Our keynote speakers will be Guido van Rossum and Mark Shuttleworth. If you don't know who Mark Shuttleworth is, find out at http://www.markshuttleworth.com/. If you don't know who Guido van Rossum is, you really need to come to Europython to find out. About Europython ================ Europython is a community Python and Zope conference that is now in its third year. It will be held in Göteborg, Sweden from 7 June 2004 until 9 June 2004. There will be many tracks, tutorials, sprints, good food, good weather and lots of fun. Göteborg offers lots of fun things to do, so it is a good opportunity to bring your family. Find out more at http://www.europython.org

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Reminder: IRC Session tomorrow (April 13)
by Rob Page 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Hello everyone: This is a reminder of the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) session tomorrow. Session Summary: - Who: Zope Corp and Zope Community - What: IRC session to discuss misc topics - When: Tue, Apr 13, 2004, 11a - 1215p (US/Eastern) - Where: irc.freenode.net #zope Agenda Items ------------ - Report: Open Souce Business Conference (Rob Page / 10 mins) - State of ZODBCDA (Open discussion / 10 mins) - Zope.org update (Brian Lloyd / 10 mins) - Zope 2 Update (Brian Lloyd / 10 mins) - Zope 3 Update (Jim Fulton / 10 mins) - Development at Zope Corp (Rob Page / 10 mins) - Migration to subversion for source control (Jim Fulton / 10 mins) - Wrap-up (5 mins) References: [1] http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/MovingSCMToSubversion Hope to see you there! Regards, Rob -- Rob Page V: 540.361.1710 Zope Corporation F: 703.995.0412

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Reminder: IRC Session next week
by Rob Page 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

Hello everyone: Just a reminder that the third Zope community IRC session is next week. We are soliciting agenda topics. Please email them to: - mailto:irc_agenda_topics@zope.com Session Summary: - Who: Zope Corp and Zope Community - What: IRC session to discuss misc topics - When: Tue, Apr 13, 2004, 11a - 1215p (US/Eastern) - Where: irc.freenode.net #zope It's unlikely that we'll be able to address all requested topics though we'll make an effort to address the most pressing/popular topics. Agenda Items ------------ Report from the Open Souce Business Conference: Rob Page (5 mins) State of ZODBCDA (10 mins) Zope.org update (5 mins) Zope 2 Update (5 mins) Zope 3 Update (5 mins) Development at Zope Corp (10 mins) Other Agenda Items (20-30 mins) Regards, Rob -- Rob Page V: 540.361.1710 Zope Corporation F: 703.995.0412

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My Media Manager 1.3 final released!
by Gitte Wange 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

MM Manager is pleased to announce a new release of My Media Manager! This release includes skins for Plone2 and CPS3. The install mechanism has been updated to plug My Media Manager right into CPS3 and Plone2 making it easier to use and for new users to get started with My Media Manager. There is also an experimental plugin for QuickTime included in this release. Bugs and feature requests can be issued in our collector at http://www.mmmanager.org/collectors/mymediamanager We have a mailing list running. Subscription info and archives can be found at http://www.mmmanager.org/mailinglists ZopeMag has brought an article of My Media Manager which describes the basics of streaming media and My Media Manager. Read it at: http://www.zopemag.com/Issue004/Section_Articles/article_MyMediaManager.html You can find the final release here: http://zope.org/Members/gittew/MyMediaManager/1.3final/MyMediaManager-1.3.t… My Media Manager is a free set of online management- and publishing-tools, which enables you to administer streaming media content on one or several media servers, through your standard webbrowser. My Media Manager is developed by MM Manager.org (http://www.mmmanager.org)

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Announcing zopewiki.org !
by Simon Michael 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

Hi all, I've set up a general-purpose Zope wiki at http://zopewiki.org . The blurb says: "This is a public wiki site for Zope , the open source web application server. Zope documentation has historically been scattered and hard to update. zopewiki.org aims to provide a single, simple, user-owned Zope documentation site to tie it all together." I have been wanting something like this for some time. At one time I thought it had to be on zope.org, but not now. It's time to stick my own neck out and risk public humiliation. I hope you'll all get involved and we can fix this accursed zope documentation problem. :)

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Zwiki 0.29 released, news roundup
by Simon Michael 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

Good day all.. Zwiki 0.29 has been released. Summary: bugfixes for Zope 2.7 & Plone 2, skin tweaks. This is the first release since the wave of python 2.3, zope 2.7 and plone 2.0 hit, and hopefully you will find it more solid. http://zwiki.org , http://zwiki.org/ReleaseNotes . zwiki.org has moved to a new server with more memory and is much happier. You should find it faster and more stable. I hope to keep it that way. Also there is a new sponsorship page at http://zwiki.org/ZwikiFunding . Please take a look and consider sponsoring me or another developer, if you'd like to see this product improve more quickly and sustainably. Especially if it is helping your business (and I hope it is). Development started slow this month but picked up towards the end, with contributions from Bob McElrath and Cyrille Lebeaupin. Bob is doing good work as LatexWiki patch maintainer and he has just made a compatible release. Many people have helped with issue tracking, as usual - thank you. #zwiki channel activity is on the increase. After four years, I've realized I don't need to keep fighting with zope.org content objects. :) zwiki.org is now the official home of Zwiki releases and news. Ditto for trusty-but-time-consuming CVS. As of now I am switching to darcs as primary revision control system and considering CVS to be frozen. Please see http://zwiki.org/ZwikiDarcs for new how-tos and discussion. I hope this will enable simpler and more rapid exchange of patches, translations, etc. Quite a month! Spring cleaning. Will I be able to keep working on zwiki in the coming months ? I don't know. I hope so. :) <>Zwiki is a flexible, powerful, GPL wiki engine for Zope, supporting hierarchy, wysiwyg editing, dynamic pages, issue tracking, email integration, and more. Visit zwiki.org to learn all about it. Good health, -Simon

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Kupu 1.0.3 released
by Philipp von Weitershausen 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

=================== Kupu 1.0.3 Released =================== 1 April 2004 As of now, the in-browser WYSIWYG editor formerly known as epozNG has a new name: Kupu! Even though it was never the intention, the Epoz WYSIWYG editor development had split in 2 branches, confusing both developers and users. Hopefully the new name settles this confusion. What is Kupu? ------------- Kupu is a client-side JavaScript What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor. It works in both Mozilla and Internet Explorer based browsers (including Netscape 7) and produces well-formed XHTML. Kupu is object oriented and designed to be customizable and extendable. The Past -------- Last year, a small team of developers started working on a full rewrite of the Epoz product written by Maik Jablonski, with the objective to provide a WYSIWYG editor for Infrae's document management system Silva [2]. Maik wasn't interested in continuing development of his version and didn't join the team in the rewrite, but he was fine with the team using the name. However, consequent bugfixes and enhancements, mostly coming from Plone [3], still went into the old Epoz, leaving us with two actively developed versions. This led to much confusion. In January 2004, Michael Wechner, president of OSCOM (Open Source Content Management) [4] proposed to make epozNG an official OSCOM project. This proposal was welcomed by the development team. As part of the move to OSCOM, it was agreed to change epozNG's name to end the confusion, and to change the license from ZPL to something less Zope-specific, BSD. After two months of brainstorming and endless name suggestions, the team finally decided. Thanks to Eric Casteleijn for "Kupu". Kupu is Maori and means "word, statement, remark". The Present ----------- A new name, a new license, a new website [1], and it's time for a new release. Since epozNG left off at 1.0.2, the first Kupu release is 1.0.3. It's not a major release, mainly containing small bugfixes, but it's a milestone. The Future ---------- The future of Kupu seems bright. Currently it provides a host of features for a WYSIWYG editor, and works in both IE and Mozilla based browsers. We intend to continue in that direction. The Kupu developers focus on standards and high quality code as well as new technologies. We plan to steadily improve Kupu, and bring it to maturity without losing its clean design and comprehensible codebase. Thanks to --------- - Michael Wechner and OSCOM for providing a new home - Holger Krekel and Codespeak for the invaluable support - Infrae for support - The guys at ETH Zürich for inspiration - Eric for "Kupu" - Manos Batsis for Sarissa and for letting us distribute it under the Kupu License - Henri Bergie for setting us up with http://kupu.oscom.org - Jan Smith for testing and finding bugs On behalf of the Kupu Contributors Guido Wesdorp, Philipp von Weitershausen, Paul Everitt Links ----- [1] http://kupu.oscom.org [2] http://www.infrae.com/products/silva [3] http://plone.org [4] http://oscom.org

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