June 2006 - Zope-Announce

Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG June 14: meld3 templating and memcached sessions
by Gary Poster 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Please join us Wed., June 14, 7:30-9:00 PM, for another meeting of the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group ("ZPUG"). We will have two full presentations, and some good snacks. If you plan to attend, an email 24 hours in advance would be appreciated (but last minute attendees are welcome). - 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. Gary ---------------------------------------- General ZPUG information When: second Wednesday of every month, 7:30-9:00. Where: Zope Corporation offices. 513 Prince Edward Street; Fredericksburg, VA 22408 (tinyurl for map is http://tinyurl.com/duoab) Parking: Zope Corporation parking lot; entrance on Prince Edward Street. Topics: As desired (and offered) by participants, within the constraints of having to do with Python or Zope. Mailing list: fredericksburg-zpug(a)zope.org Contact: Gary Poster (gary(a)zope.com)

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Vancouver Python Workshop: New Keynoter
by Brian Quinlan 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

What's New? =========== The Vancouver Python Workshop is pleased to announce the addition of a third keynote speaker to this year's conference. 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. 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. Further talks (and tutorials for beginners) will take place on August 5th and 6th. The Vancouver Python Workshop is a community organized conference 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 [3]. For more information about traveling to Vancouver, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/vancouver.html http://www.tourismvancouver.com http://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] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2299119.stm Cheers, Brian

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[ANN] Zope 2 Bugday: June, 15th
by Andreas Jung 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

The next Zope bugday will be held on June, 15th 2006 on the IRC channel #zope-dev at irc.freenode.net. Join us and grab a bug from http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope to improve the quality of the upcoming Zope 2.10 release. --- Andreas

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 3.1.10 released
by Andreas Jung 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG V 3.1.10 TextIndexNG V 3 is a complete new implementation based on Zope 3 technologies and can be used both in Zope 2.8 or in Zope 3. What's new? - multi-field indexing and query support - multi-lingual support - configurable converters (through ZCML) - new indexing API (allowing you to hook your custom content types with TextIndexNG through Zope 3 adapters). Changes in V 3.1.10: - some fixes in the Plone adapters - the TextIndexNG 3 repository has been migrated from CVS to SVN (http://svn.sf.net/textindexng) Requirements: - Zope 2.8+, Zope 3.2+ Download: http://sf.net/projects/textindexng Project page: http://opensource.zopyx.biz/OpenSource/TextIndexNG3 For installation and documentation issues refer to doc/README.txt from the archive. It's basically the same procedure as with former versions except you *need* to recompile the extension modules. Windows binaries of the required extension modules are currently not available (any volunteers?). TextIndexNG V 3 is published under the ZPL. Andreas Jung ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Andreas Jung ZOPYX Ltd. & Co KG - - E-mail: info(a)zopyx.com Web: www.zopyx.com, www.zopyx.de - -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CMF-1.6.1-beta released
by Jens Vagelpohl 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

The CMF developer community is pleased to announce the release of version 1.6.1-beta of the Zope Content Management Framework (CMF). This release is intended for testing purposes only; we do not recommend deploying it to production servers. The final release of version 1.6.1 is expected on Saturday, June 10, 2006. 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-beta release represents a pure bug fix/maintenance release without feature additions. The CMF-1.6.1-final release will form 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-beta Points of interest include: - Windows ZIP file: http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.1-beta/CMF-1.6.1-beta.zip - Unix tar/gzip archive: http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.1-beta/CMF-1.6.1- beta.tar.gz - Release notes: http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.1-beta/README.txt - Change history: http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.1-beta/CHANGES.txt - Installation instructions: http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.1-beta/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

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[ANN] Zope 2.10.0 beta 1 released
by Andreas Jung 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Hi all, on behalf of Zope developer community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.10.0 beta 1. You can download Zope 2.10.0 beta 1 http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.0b1/ Some new features of Zope 2.10: - ZPT implementation based on Zope 3 - experimental WSGI and Twisted integration - Zope 3.3, Five 1.5 integration - clock server - lots of minor improvements and fixes - replaced several Zope 2 modules with their sister implementation of Zope 3 For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.0b1/CHANGES.txt Please bring all the bugs you have found to the Zope bugtracker: http://collector.zope.org/Zope For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/InstallingZope.stx As always: beta releases of major Zope revisions require *early* testing. Don't wait with testing until the 2.10.0 final release. Beta releases are for testing but not the final release. Supported Python versions: Zope 2.9 requires Python 2.4.3 (Python 2.4.2 is still acceptable). Older Python versions are no longer supported. -- Andreas Jung -- ZOPYX Ltd. & Co. KG - Charlottenstr. 37/1 - 72070 Tübingen - Germany Web: www.zopyx.com - Email: info(a)zopyx.com - Phone +49 - 7071 - 793376 E-Publishing, Python, Zope & Plone development, Consulting

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