January 2005 - Zope-Announce

qRSS2Syndication 0.2.0 released
by Ihor Berehulyak 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

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qRSS2Syndication 0.2.0 released
by Ihor Berehulyak 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Quintagroup is pleased to announce the release version 0.2.0 of qRSS2Syndication product. qRSS2Syndication is developed to add RSS2 functionality to Plone. * What is qRSS2Syndication?* qRSS2Syndication is a product designed by Quintagroup to generate RSS2 feeds in Plone sites. qRSS2Syndication includes support of audio and video feeds. qRSS2Syndication allows the syndication of ATAudio objects, mp3, wmv, ppt, jpg files using RSS 2.0 with enclosures. For further information have a look at the qRSS2Syndication Plone product page, which describes the product in depth. *Features* - It generates RSS2 feed from Plone content - Syndication of ATAudio objects, mp3, wmv, ppt, jpg files using RSS 2.0 with enclosures. - Enables podcasting with Plone - "Setup RSS2" tab for every feed *Requirements* Plone 2.0+ (compatible with all versions up to 2.0.5) *License* Zope Public License version 2.1 *Download* http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=108906&package_id=141… *Product home page* http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/qRSS2Syndication *Sponsors* http://4webresults.com/ -- Ihor Berehulyak quintagroup.com - Quintessence of modern business

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Infrae releases Silva 1.2 beta
by Martijn Faassen 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

21 january 2005 - As previously announced, Infrae has released Silva 1.2 beta today. This release contains three major new features: expanded version management for XML documents, subscription functionality for all versioned content, and an internationalized Silva user interface, including Dutch and German translations. Infrae is actively seeking volunteers to translate Silva into other languages. Version management ------------------ Silva 1.2 exposes additional version management capability to the user interface. It leverages Silva's powerful multi-version system, where content can be online while a new version is simultaneously prepared. The version management feature allows: * reviewing older versions of content objects * comparing different versions side-by-side * reverting to older versions of content * removing of selected old versions Subscriptions ------------- Silva 1.2 adds the subscriptions feature, which allows end-users to subscribe to public web pages. As soon as a new version of a page gets (re)published, the subscribed user receives an email notification. It's even possible to subscribe to changes on a content hierarchy - but only if this has been allowed using the subscription management UI, which allows for fine-grained subscribability for content. On the more technical side it is noteworthy that the subscription feature has been designed to be scalable over many subscribers. Internationalization -------------------- Silva 1.2 has now been fully internationalized. This means that the Silva user interface can now be presented a wide range of languages. Besides the original UI in English, Silva 1.2 will also ship with a German and a Dutch translation. We're eager to have contributors help with the translation effort to other languages! If you're interested in providing translations to other languages, or if you wish to test an existing translation, please contact the Silva developers at: http://lists.infrae.com/mailman/listinfo/silva-dev and we will help you get started. Upgrading --------- The upgrade from Silva 1.1 to 1.2 involves a content upgrade, though a small one. Ghosts need to be reindexed in the catalog, and Indexer objects need to be refreshed. This can be performanced by a single content upgrade. For more information see the UPGRADE.txt that will ship with the release. What is Silva? -------------- Silva is an enterprise-class CMS for managing content for the web, print, and other media. Content is stored in clean and future-proof XML, independent of layout and presentation. Features include a multi-version workflow system, XSLT rendering support, integral WYSIWYG editor (Kupu), content reuse in multiple publications, sophisticated access management, extensive import/export facilities, fine-grained templating, and hi-res image storage and manipulation. Silva is entirely open source. More information ---------------- * http://www.infrae.com/products/silva * http://www.infrae.com Press Contact ------------- Martijn Faassen, faassen at infrae com

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 3 for Developers Course
by Rob Page 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Zope Corporation is delighted to announce a new training course on Zope 3. Zope 3 for Developers --------------------- This three day course will familiarize developers with Zope 3 software from introductory through advanced concepts. The take-away materials provide tools for further learning, since it will not be possible to cover every topic in the sessions. We will demonstrate the flexibility and effectiveness of Zope as an Open Source web development Platform. Course Objectives: After completing this course students will understand: * Zope's component architecture, * Creating Zope components and applications * Building web interfaces, * Controlling security, * Using powerful Zope framework features e.g., events, metadata, schemas, testing, * Configuring and installing Zope The course is intended for developers who want to build web applications using the Zope 3 web-application server. Students should be familiar with the Python programming language and the concepts associated with web application development. While not required, students will benefit from having some familiarity with Zope 2-based application development. We offer several opportunities to meet with Zope's engineering teams, including with Jim Fulton, our CTO. The sessions for 2005 are: o April 18-20 o June 27-29 o Sept 19-21 o Dec 5-7 For more detailed information about the course, including pre-work, pricing, travel and accommodations, please go to our website www.zope.com. Regards, Rob -- Rob Page V: 540.361.1710 Zope Corporation F: 703.995.0412

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Announce: January Zope Bug Day!
by Chris Withers 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Hi All, Time to announce the 1st bug day of 2005! This time it's on a Thursday to see if that generates more or less interest... What? Zope Bug Day working from http://collector.zope.org/Zope When? Thursday 27th January - from when you wake up until when the day ends! Where? #zope-dev on irc.zope.org Come along and help if you've got a chance! Read this if you want to know how: http://dev.zope.org/CVS/BugDays cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

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TeamSpace 1.0 Released
by Kapil Thangavelu 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Announcing TeamSpace: A safe, well lit place for Teams to hang out. About TeamSpace is an infrastructure product for developing advanced groupware and collaborative applications. The TeamSpace product introduces the concept of Teams to CMF and Plone. Teams are analogous to groups, except that membership to a Team is represented by an Archetypes-based content object, similar to the way that CMFMember (upon which TeamSpace depends) represents Member objects. TeamMembership objects are subject to workflow, allowing memberships to be "active" or not based on the current workflow state. Additionally, each TeamMembership can have any number of arbitrarily specified roles within the context of the Team (or any associated TeamSpaces). Additionally, TeamMemberships support the concept of Team-associated schemas/metadata with values on a per membership basis. Put another way, each Team has the ability to store Team-specific data about each of the Team's members, whether or not that member is active on the Team. As a collaboration mechanism users who have active TeamMemberships for a Team can use a TeamSpace, which dynamically allocates security settings within the TeamSpace based on the security policy specified by the Team and the TeamMembership. The following projects are using TeamSpace in Production: - EduPlone - BlackRockCity Extranet - PloneForge - MarketBroker Project Site Downloads, Mailing Lists, BugTrackers http://projects.objectrealms.net/projects/teamspace Credits TeamSpace was developed by the Black Rock City/Burning Man group and ObjectRealms. http://www.burningman.com/ http://www.objectrealms.net/ License ZPL2.1

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Collaborate at PyCon
by Jim Fulton 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

PyCon is not just a conference to hear people present on Python and Python applications. It's also a place to meet and work with colleagues from around the world. Consider the following opportunities for collaboration: - Sprinting A sprint is a multi-day session of intense development organized around extreme programming (XP) ideas such as pair programming. There will be four days, March 19-22, before the regular conference to sprint on a variety of projects. To see what sprints are planned, see: http://www.python.org/moin/PyConDC2005/Sprints If you would like to lead a sprint, feel free to add the sprint to that page. If you want to participate in a sprint, visit a sprint-topic page and add your name to the list of attendees so that we know how many people are coming. If you have a question about the sprints, feel free to drop me a line. - Open Space Open space is a part of PyCon designed to provide opportunities for collaboration. There are two kinds of open space at Pycon, quiet and noisy. There will be a quiet room provided throughout the conference for people to access the network and to quietly hack with others (e.g. pair program). There will also be noisy rooms for people to have discussions or give informal presentations. The noisy rooms will host up to two presentations or discussions at a time. We'll provide the opportunity to sign up for 30-minute time slots. We'll allow sign up for half of the time slots before the conference. There will be a posted schedule with spaces to sign up for the remainder of the time slots during the conference. I'll provide more information on the open space schedule soon, after we finalize the rest of the conference schedule. 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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[ANN] Zope 2.7.4 released
by Andreas Jung 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

Dear Zope Community, on behalf of Zope Corporation and all Zope 2 developers and contributors I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.7.4. This release is a maintenance release and fixes a lot of bugs (too much to mention them all here). Zope 2.7.4 can be downloaded from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.4 The release notes can be found at http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.4/CHANGES.txt For informations on using Python 2.4 with Zope 2.7: see doc/INSTALL.txt Andreas Jung

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ZODB 3.2.5 (final) released
by Tim Peters 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.2.5 (final). This corresponds to the ZODB (and ZEO) planned to ship with Zope 2.7.4 (final) this weekend. You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2 This is a pure bugfix release, fixing some relatively minor but longstanding problems. See the news file for details: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2/NEWS ZODB 3.2.5 can be used with Zopes in the 2.7 line, at or after Zope 2.7.3. Note that ZODB 3.2.4 does not support development on Zope 2.8, Zope X3 or Zope 3 (they require the ZODB 3.3 line).

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Issue Dealer 0.9.63 released
by Morten W. Petersen 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Issue Dealer (http://www.nidelven-it.no/products/issue_dealer) is a issue management tool featuring a weblog publisher (client), weblog (server), WebDAV client, WYSIWYG editing of HTML and Images and more. Changes since the last announcement: 0.9.63: - Made weblog issues in category and regular search ordered by date - Fixed bug where incorrect inherited hook was called in image.manage_beforeDelete 0.9.62: - Added categories to local weblog publisher - Fixed bug where search page template would raise a parse error - Calling OFS.Image's add/delete/clone hooks in custom image implementation 0.9.61: - Renamed config.py to id_config.py to prevent naming conflicts with other modules on the win32 platform - Added view link on local weblog publisher - Fixed bug where expanding and collapsing of issues in the tree view wouldn't work properly If you're interested in trying a demo, sign up at the demo site (http://demos.issue-dealer.net) To see the Issue Dealer Weblog Server in action, have a look at The Blogologue (http://www.blogologue.com) :) Nidelven IT and others use the product to manage their knowledge and action items, it's a great tool to keep track issues in different departments for example. Try it! ;) Regards, Morten

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