Zwiki 0.54 has been released. This one comes you from the garden, in
lovely county Wicklow. Thanks for all bug reports and input.
An announcement from Joyful Systems: my current consulting gig is
winding down; it's time for me to do something new, creative,
financially rewarding. This could mean a greater focus on Zwiki. If you
need Zwiki/Zope/Squeak/Unix consulting, or have any other thoughts on
this, let me know!
Best, -Simon
Summary
Miscellaneous view-related and general enhancements.
Upgrade notes
CMF/Plone users: the zwiki_standard and zwiki_plone skin layers
have been replaced by a single zwiki layer. Re-install Zwiki in
your CMF/Plone sites, using Plone's add/remove products or CMF's
quickinstaller, to register the new skin layer. Also remove the
zwiki_standard and zwiki_plone skin layers from your skins in
portal_skins -> Properties.
Changes
Installing
* cleaned up ZMI Add ZWiki and Add ZWiki Page forms
* remove _getViewFor import that broke with CMF 2.0
* fix upgradeAll's batch option
Browsing
* /myvotes view shows your votes in this wiki
* highlight your current vote for this page, if any
Editing
* support a max_identified_links property also, for
cookie-identified users (for now)
* edit history enhancements, a more useful diff browser and more
powerful revert methods. Renames can now be reverted, reverting
is more reliable, and appropriate mail notifications are sent.
General
* replace zwiki_standard and zwiki_plone with just skins/zwiki
* Views code cleanup
* simplify definition of view macros and make them refresh
immediately in debug mode
* more code docs
* don't bother identifying the catalog in event log
Urls:
- http://zwiki.org - start here
- http://zwiki.org/FreeHosting - free experimental zwiki hosting
- http://joyful.com - zwiki demos and other zwikis
- http://joyfulsystems.blogspot.com - blog
What's New?
===========
The deadline for early-bird registration for the Vancouver Python
Workshop is this Friday, June 30th.
Early-bird registration is significantly discounted over normal
registration, so register now at:
http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/registration.html
About the Vancouver Python Workshop
===================================
The conference will begin with keynote addresses on August 4st by Guido
van Rossum [1] and Jim Hugunin [2]. Further talks (and tutorials for
beginners) will take place on August 5th and 6th. Ian Cavén [3] will
give the closing address. The Vancouver Python Workshop is a community
organized and designed for both the beginner and for the experienced
Python programmer with:
* tutorials for beginning programmers
* advanced lectures for Python experts
* case studies of Python in action
* after-hours social events
* informative keynote speakers
More information see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/
or contact Brian Quinlan at: brian(a)sweetapp.com
Vancouver
=========
In addition to the opportunity to learn and socialize with fellow
Pythonistas, the Vancouver Python Workshop also gives visitors the
opportunity to visit one of the most extraordinary cities in the world
[4]. For more information about traveling to Vancouver, see:
http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/vancouver.htmlhttp://www.tourismvancouver.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver
Important dates
===============
Early registration (discounted): May 22nd to June 30th
Normal registration: from July 1st
Keynotes: August 4th
Conference and tutorial dates: August 5th and 6th
[1] Guido van Rossum (Google) is the inventor of Python and has managed
its growth and development for more than a decade. Guido was
awarded the Free Software Foundation Award in 2002 and Dr.Dobb's
1999 Excellence in Programming Award. Guido works at Google and
spends half of his time on Python.
[2] Jim Hugunin (Microsoft) is the creator of numerous innovations that
take Python into new application domains. Jim's most recent project,
IronPython integrates Python into Microsoft's .NET runtime. Jim's
previous project, Jython is Python for the Java runtime and was the
second production-quality implementation of Python. Before that,
Jim's Numeric Python adapted Python to the needs of number crunching
applications. Jim works at Microsoft adapting the .NET runtime to
the needs of dynamic languages like Python.
[3] Ian Cavén is the primary developer of the Lowry Digital Images
motion picture restoration system. This Python and Zope-based system
has been used to restore over 150 motion pictures. Highlights
include Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard and both the Indiana Jones
and Star Wars trilogies. While Ian was Chief Scientist at Lowry
Digital, his rack of computers grew from a few Macintoshes on his
desktop to over six hundred Macintosh and Linux servers - at
one point earning Lowry the title as the second biggest installation
of parallel processing Maintoshes in the world. In 2005, Lowry
Digital Images was acquired by DTS (the famous movie audio company)
and renamed DTS Digital Images. The motion picture restoration
system has been discussed in publications as diverse as IEEE
Spectrum, USA Today, the BBC NEWS, the New York Times and Apple.com.
Ian has been a Python enthusiast since 1999.
[4] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2299119.stmhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/06/15/btn.cities/index.html
Cheers,
Brian
What's New?
===========
The talk schedule for the Vancouver Python Workshop is now available:
http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/talkschedule.html
This years line-up might be even stronger than in 2004, so check it out!
About the Vancouver Python Workshop
===================================
The conference will begin with keynote addresses on August 4st by Guido
van Rossum [1] and Jim Hugunin [2]. Further talks (and tutorials for
beginners) will take place on August 5th and 6th. Ian Cavén [3] will
give the closing address. The Vancouver Python Workshop is a community
organized and designed for both the beginner and for the experienced
Python programmer with:
* tutorials for beginning programmers
* advanced lectures for Python experts
* case studies of Python in action
* after-hours social events
* informative keynote speakers
* tracks on multimedia, Web development, education and more
More information see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/
or contact Brian Quinlan at: brian(a)sweetapp.com
Vancouver
=========
In addition to the opportunity to learn and socialize with fellow
Pythonistas, the Vancouver Python Workshop also gives visitors the
opportunity to visit one of the most extraordinary cities in the world
[4]. For more information about traveling to Vancouver, see:
http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/vancouver.htmlhttp://www.tourismvancouver.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver
Important dates
===============
Talk proposals accepted: May 15th to June 15th
Early registration (discounted): May 22nd to June 30th
Normal registration: from July 1st
Keynotes: August 4th
Conference and tutorial dates: August 5th and 6th
[1] Guido van Rossum (Google) is the inventor of Python and has managed
its growth and development for more than a decade. Guido was
awarded the Free Software Foundation Award in 2002 and Dr.Dobb's
1999 Excellence in Programming Award. Guido works at Google and
spends half of his time on Python.
[2] Jim Hugunin (Microsoft) is the creator of numerous innovations that
take Python into new application domains. Jim's most recent project,
IronPython integrates Python into Microsoft's .NET runtime. Jim's
previous project, Jython is Python for the Java runtime and was the
second production-quality implementation of Python. Before that,
Jim's Numeric Python adapted Python to the needs of number crunching
applications. Jim works at Microsoft adapting the .NET runtime to
the needs of dynamic languages like Python.
[3] Ian Cavén is the primary developer of the Lowry Digital Images
motion picture restoration system. This Python and Zope-based system
has been used to restore over 150 motion pictures. Highlights
include Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard and both the Indiana Jones
and Star Wars trilogies. While Ian was Chief Scientist at Lowry
Digital, his rack of computers grew from a few Macintoshes on his
desktop to over six hundred Macintosh and Linux servers - at
one point earning Lowry the title as the second biggest installation
of parallel processing Maintoshes in the world. In 2005, Lowry
Digital Images was acquired by DTS (the famous movie audio company)
and renamed DTS Digital Images. The motion picture restoration
system has been discussed in publications as diverse as IEEE
Spectrum, USA Today, the BBC NEWS, the New York Times and Apple.com.
Ian has been a Python enthusiast since 1999.
[4] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2299119.stmhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/06/15/btn.cities/index.html
Cheers,
Brian
"AdvancedQuery" is a search engine similar to Zope's "ZCatalog"
that tries to remove many of "ZCatalog"s limitations and strives
heavily for efficiency.
"AdvancedQuery"s can be arbitrarily built from elementary index queries
with "and", "or" and "not". This gives richer query expressiveness
than "ZCatalog".
"AdvancedQuery" supports incremental multi-level sorting.
For highest efficiency, "AdvancedQuery" can (and probably should)
be used with "ManagableIndex" and "IncrementalSearch2".
New in version 2.0: support for incremental ranking.
A rank determination rule can be specified by a sequence
of weighted queries. The rank of a document is
then either the sum or the maximum of the weights for
queries that match the document.
This kind of ranking is a sort specification and can be
combined with other sort specifications in the usual way
(leading to multi-level sorting).
Ranking is performed incrementally. This way, ranking
can be quite efficient when you only look at the first
(few hundred) hits -- despite the fact that ranking is very
expensive in general.
More information and download:
<http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope>
--
Dieter
Hello everyone,
WebFaction (formerly Python-Hosting.com) have just released a screencast
demo of their control panel.
The 6 minute demo shows how you can setup a Rails, WordPress, Django and
TurboGears application in a few clicks, and then "mount" these applications
on various domain(s)/URL(s).
The one-click installer already supports all major tools, including Rails,
WordPress, Djano, TurboGears, Zope, Plone, Trac and Subversion, but also
lightweight tools such as static HTML, CGI or PHP.
Even though Zope itself is not shown in the demo, it is supported in the
one-click installer so its installation works just like the other
applications.
We already hosts hundreds of Zope and Plone sites.
The demo is available at: http://blog.webfaction.com/control-panel-demo
Remi.
http://www.webfaction.com - Hosting for an agile web
What's New?
===========
This is your last change to submit a talk for the Vancouver Python
Workshop. Talks will be accepted until Friday June 16th.
This is a great opportunity for you to share your project or interests
with the Python community, so please take advantage of it!
To submit a talk, see:
http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/talksubmission.html
About the Vancouver Python Workshop
===================================
The conference will begin with keynote addresses on August 4st by Guido
van Rossum [1], Jim Hugunin [2], and Ian Cavén [3]. Further talks (and
tutorials for beginners) will take place on August 5th and 6th. The
Vancouver Python Workshop is a community organized and designed for both
the beginner and for the experienced Python programmer with:
* tutorials for beginning programmers
* advanced lectures for Python experts
* case studies of Python in action
* after-hours social events
* informative keynote speakers
* tracks on multimedia, Web development, education and more
More information see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/
or contact Brian Quinlan at: brian(a)sweetapp.com
Vancouver
=========
In addition to the opportunity to learn and socialize with fellow
Pythonistas, the Vancouver Python Workshop also gives visitors the
opportunity to visit one of the most extraordinary cities in the world
[4]. For more information about traveling to Vancouver, see:
http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/vancouver.htmlhttp://www.tourismvancouver.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver
Important dates
===============
Talk proposals accepted: May 15th to June 15th
Early registration (discounted): May 22nd to June 30th
Normal registration: from July 1st
Keynotes: August 4th
Conference and tutorial dates: August 5th and 6th
[1] Guido van Rossum (Google) is the inventor of Python and has managed
its growth and development for more than a decade. Guido was
awarded the Free Software Foundation Award in 2002 and Dr.Dobb's
1999 Excellence in Programming Award. Guido works at Google and
spends half of his time on Python.
[2] Jim Hugunin (Microsoft) is the creator of numerous innovations that
take Python into new application domains. Jim's most recent project,
IronPython integrates Python into Microsoft's .NET runtime. Jim's
previous project, Jython is Python for the Java runtime and was the
second production-quality implementation of Python. Before that,
Jim's Numeric Python adapted Python to the needs of number crunching
applications. Jim works at Microsoft adapting the .NET runtime to
the needs of dynamic languages like Python.
[3] Ian Cavén is the primary developer of the Lowry Digital Images
motion picture restoration system. This Python and Zope-based system
has been used to restore over 150 motion pictures. Highlights
include Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard and both the Indiana Jones
and Star Wars trilogies. While Ian was Chief Scientist at Lowry
Digital, his rack of computers grew from a few Macintoshes on his
desktop to over six hundred Macintosh and Linux servers - at
one point earning Lowry the title as the second biggest installation
of parallel processing Maintoshes in the world. In 2005, Lowry
Digital Images was acquired by DTS (the famous movie audio company)
and renamed DTS Digital Images. The motion picture restoration
system has been discussed in publications as diverse as IEEE
Spectrum, USA Today, the BBC NEWS, the New York Times and Apple.com.
Ian has been a Python enthusiast since 1999.
[4] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2299119.stm
Cheers,
Brian
Hi all. Don't forget tomorrow's ZPUG meeting. If you plan to
attend, an email to me tonight or tomorrow morning would be
appreciated, but is not necessary.
- Chris McDonough will talk about meld3, a Python HTML/XML templating
system in the spirit of PyMeld and other 'push-based' templating
systems. (http://www.plope.com/software/meld3).
- Tres Seaver will present "Using memcached in Python and Zope",
including a demo of using his 'mcdutils' product to do shared session
management in Zope.
- good snacks.
Thanks!
Gary
What's New?
===========
The deadline for submitting a talk or tutorial for the Vancouver Python
Workshop is fast approaching. Talks will be accepted until Friday June
16th.
To submit a talk, see:
http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/talksubmission.html
About the Vancouver Python Workshop
===================================
The conference will begin with keynote addresses on August 4st by Guido
van Rossum [1], Jim Hugunin [2], and Ian Cavén [3]. Further talks (and
tutorials for beginners) will take place on August 5th and 6th. The
Vancouver Python Workshop is a community organized and designed for both
the beginner and for the experienced Python programmer with:
* tutorials for beginning programmers
* advanced lectures for Python experts
* case studies of Python in action
* after-hours social events
* informative keynote speakers
* tracks on multimedia, Web development, education and more
More information see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/
or contact Brian Quinlan at: brian(a)sweetapp.com
Vancouver
=========
In addition to the opportunity to learn and socialize with fellow
Pythonistas, the Vancouver Python Workshop also gives visitors the
opportunity to visit one of the most extraordinary cities in the world
[4]. For more information about traveling to Vancouver, see:
http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/vancouver.htmlhttp://www.tourismvancouver.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver
Important dates
===============
Talk proposals accepted: May 15th to June 15th
Early registration (discounted): May 22nd to June 30th
Normal registration: from July 1st
Keynotes: August 4th
Conference and tutorial dates: August 5th and 6th
[1] Guido van Rossum (Google) is the inventor of Python and has managed
its growth and development for more than a decade. Guido was
awarded the Free Software Foundation Award in 2002 and Dr.Dobb's
1999 Excellence in Programming Award. Guido works at Google and
spends half of his time on Python.
[2] Jim Hugunin (Microsoft) is the creator of numerous innovations that
take Python into new application domains. Jim's most recent project,
IronPython integrates Python into Microsoft's .NET runtime. Jim's
previous project, Jython is Python for the Java runtime and was the
second production-quality implementation of Python. Before that,
Jim's Numeric Python adapted Python to the needs of number crunching
applications. Jim works at Microsoft adapting the .NET runtime to
the needs of dynamic languages like Python.
[3] Ian Cavén is the primary developer of the Lowry Digital Images
motion picture restoration system. This Python and Zope-based system
has been used to restore over 150 motion pictures. Highlights
include Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard and both the Indiana Jones
and Star Wars trilogies. While Ian was Chief Scientist at Lowry
Digital, his rack of computers grew from a few Macintoshes on his
desktop to over six hundred Macintosh and Linux servers - at
one point earning Lowry the title as the second biggest installation
of parallel processing Maintoshes in the world. In 2005, Lowry
Digital Images was acquired by DTS (the famous movie audio company)
and renamed DTS Digital Images. The motion picture restoration
system has been discussed in publications as diverse as IEEE
Spectrum, USA Today, the BBC NEWS, the New York Times and Apple.com.
Ian has been a Python enthusiast since 1999.
[4] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2299119.stm
Cheers,
Brian
The CMF developer community is pleased to announce the release of
version 1.6.1 of the Zope Content Management Framework (CMF).
This release marks the latest stable release in the
CMF 1.6 series and should be suitable for production use.
What is the CMF?
The Zope Content Management Framework provides a set of services and
content objects useful for building highly dynamic, content-oriented
portal sites. As packaged, the CMF generates a site much like the
zope.org site. The CMF is intended to be easily customizable, in
terms
of both the types of content used and the policies and services it
provides.
What's new in this release?
The 1.6.1 release represents a pure bug fix/maintenance release
without feature additions. It provides the basis for the upcoming
Plone 2.5 release.
Where do I get it?
Download it from http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.1
Points of interest include:
- Windows ZIP file:
http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.1/CMF-1.6.1.zip
- Unix tar/gzip archive:
http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.1/CMF-1.6.1.tar.gz
- Release notes:
http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.1/README.txt
- Change history:
http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.1/CHANGES.txt
- Installation instructions:
http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.1/INSTALL.txt
- CMF Release Roadmap:
http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/docs/roadmap
Where do I go to learn more?
The CMF mailing list (zope-cmf(a)zope.org) has many participants who
are
active in supporting the CMF.
...to report bugs?
The CMF Collector at http://www.zope.org/Collectors/CMF is the
place to
report bugs (please search for existing reports of your issue first!)
---------
Jens Vagelpohl
jens(a)dataflake.org
The Zope Foundation was legally formed in March 2006.
We are in the process of building membership and electing the first
board of directors.
The purpose of the Zope Foundation is to advance the creation,
evolution, promotion, adoption and support of the Zope Platform and to
cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of
complementary products, capabilities, and services.
The Zope Foundation will provide an independent venue for the
safekeeping of the Zope software and related materials.
The Zope Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors elected
annually to represent the stakeholders in the Zope Community. The
Board is composed as follows:
* Strategic Developer Directors: Strategic Developers may appoint one
(1) Director.
* Strategic Consumer Directors: Strategic Consumer Members may elect
one Director for every Strategic Director.
* Committer Directors: Committer Members will elect one (1) Director
for every Strategic Director.
* Solution Provider Directors: Solution Providers will elect one
(1) Director for every three (3) Strategic Developer
Directors. Solution Providers are entitled to elect at least one
(1) Director in any event.
* Associate Directors: Associate Members will elect one (1)
Director to the Board
A library of Zope Foundation formation documentation is available
on-line at:
http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Foundation/
The Zope Foundation will own the copyright to the software and related
materials (e.g., documentation) that comprises the Zope Platform. The
Zope Foundation will own and operate the Zope website at www.zope.org
and related servers, such as mail.zope.org and svn.zope.org.
The Board will undertake additional initiatives in its sole
discretion (e.g., platform marketing, development coordination,
documentation coordination, etc.)
The Zope Foundation needs active members to ensure the Zope Platform
continues to be successful! Information on the membership classes is
described in the by laws:
http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Foundation/ZopeFoundationByLaws.pdf
and in the membership agreement:
http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Foundation/
ZopeFoundationMembershipAgreement.pdf
I encourage you to support the Foundation by
- Becoming a member
- Volunteering your time by:
o Participating in the Zope Foundation Mailing list,
o Volunteering on Foundation sponsored projects, such as zope.org
operation, development projects, etc.
Deadlines
We are having elections for board directors representing committer,
solution-provider, and associate members. We are currently accepting
nominations for directors. Members of each class can nominate
directors for that class. For the solution-provider and committer
members, nominees can only be from that class. For example, only
committer members can nominate committer-member directors and those
nominees must be committer members. The nomination process closes
June 13. Voting begins June 14th and closes June 21st. Obviously,
only members can vote.
Strategic Developer and Consumer members can appoint directors.
These appointments must be made by June 21st.
Becoming a member
To become a member, you need to fill out and submit a membership
agreement:
http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Foundation/
ZopeFoundationMembershipAgreement.pdf
You can submit a membership agreement by:
- Mailing it to:
Zope Foundation, Incorporated
ATTN: Committer Agreements
c/o Zope Corporation
513 Prince Edward Street
Fredericksburg, VA
USA, 22401
- Faxing it to: +1 703 995 0412
- Emailing a scanned copy to: legal(a)zope.org
To join as a committer member:
- You must first be invited.
- You must also submit a committer agreement:
http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Foundation/
ZopeFoundation_Committer_Agreement.pdf
Please submit the membership agreement and the committer agreement
together to make less work for volunteers handling the agreements.
For other membership classes:
- Make sure you satisfy the requirements of the membership class.
- Determine your dues and pay them.
You can pay in three ways:
1. Send a check made out to the Zope Foundation to The Zope
Foundation, c/o Zope Corporation
513 Prince Edward Street, Fredericksburg, VA, USA, 22401.
2. Make a payment using PayPal
3. Make a payment using a wire transfer to the Zope Foundation
Bank account.
Contact legal(a)zope.org for PayPal or wire-transfer instructions.
General questions should be send to foundation(a)zope.org. Questions
specific to you should be sent to legal(a)zope.org.
Jim
--
Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered!
CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org
Zope Corporation http://www.zope.comhttp://www.zope.org