May 2008 - Zope-Announce

Silva Forum Released, with OpenID Authentication
by Kit BLAKE 30 May '08

30 May '08

Infrae is pleased to announce the first public release of Silva Forum, an extension for Silva 2.x that provides a classic discussion forum environment. It can be integrated with OpenID authentication and a CAPTCHA to prevent ‘spambots’ from attempting to post. Sponsored by the Bijvoet Center for Bioinformatics, Silva Forum was developed as a collaboration tool for scientists working on the EU-funded project GlycoGold (MRTN-CT2005-05645). Silva Forum features Silva Forum allows site visitors to create topics (subjects or questions) and add comments to existing topics. Entries are ordered chronologically and displayed on multiple pages for extended conversations. Users can preview their posting, and a clickable interface for inserting emoticons in messages is provided. In a typical setup the public can see and navigate the forum pages. Or, a forum can be configured to be viewable only by authenticated users with Silva’s Access Restrictions. If the forum should be private, a public role can be set as well, limiting access to a select group. Regardless of whether the forum is open to the public or not, in order to post a visitor must authenticate. Authentication can be with various Zope-based approaches or with OpenID. OpenID-based authentication The OpenID authentication is completely separate from Silva Forum, but was developed for use with it. Offering an OpenID login provides a big advantage: site managers don’t need to assign roles (or be involved in any way) with forum users. Should any script kiddies try to abuse the OpenID registration, a CAPTCHA will prevent scripts from registering. The OpenID-based access is controlled by PAS (Pluggable Authentication Service) and requires installation of PAS itself and Silva integration components. These are available as an ‘egg’: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/silva.pas.openid The OpenID integration with Silva was sponsored by Marc Petitmermet (who’s at the Department of Materials at ETH Zürich, but it was funded from another source). Note that Silva’s OpenID plugin can be used for any Silva authentication requirement, not just Silva Forum. Demo site You can give Silva Forum and the OpenID integration a test drive on a test server: http://test.infrae.com/silva_forum/forum If you’re not familiar with OpenID see: http://openid.net/. If you just want to get an OpenID, go to http://www.myopenid.com/. However, you may already have an OpenID. If you use any of the following services you already have your own OpenID: AOL, Blogger, Flickr, LiveJournal, Technorati, Yahoo, WordPress, and many more. For more information.... If you find a bug or have an idea for a feature, please post it on the Silva bug tracker on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/silva Download Silva Forum can be downloaded from: http://infrae.com/products/silva/extensions/silva_forum. Silva Forum will work fine without PAS and OpenID using standard authentication. Credits Many thanks to the people at the Bijvoet Center for Bioinformatics and Marc Petitmermet at ETH Zürich for making this functionality possible. Contact FMI contact Todd Matsumoto, info at infrae com, +31 10 243 7051. -- Kit BLAKE · Infrae · http://infrae.com/ + 31 10 243 7051 Hoevestraat 10 · 3033 GC · Rotterdam + The Netherlands OpenPGP 0xE67AD0F2 · Contact = http://xri.net/=kitblake

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EuroPython talk submission deadline this thursday!
by Martijn Faassen 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hi there, If you want to submit a Zope-related talk for EuroPython, please do so very soon now! Let us have a good representation of Zope at EuroPython again; this is one of the major Zope-related events on the calendar. The deadline for EuroPython talk proposals is Thursday 22nd May at midnight (24:00 CEST, Central European Summer Time, UTC+2). http://www.europython.org/Talk%20Submissions Regards, Martijn

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[ANN] Blackforest Sprint 2008 in Freiburg, Germany - August 25-27th
by Andreas Jung 13 May '08

13 May '08

On behalf of Haufe Mediengruppe, Freiburg, Germany I am pleased to announce the BLACKFOREST SPRINT 2008 August 25-27th in Freiburg, Germany. The sprint is focused on topics like enterprise-level Zope, high-availablity, scalability, Buildout, Grok technology in Zope 2 and other hot topics that are of interest for "big" Zope users. The official sprint project page is hosted on Openplans: <http://www.openplans.org/projects/black-forest-sprint/project-home> Feel free to register or get in touch with me if you have question or need further assistance. Andreas

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Zope 2.9.9 and Zope 2.10.6 released
by Andreas Jung 11 May '08

11 May '08

On behalf of the Zope developers community I am pleased to announce the Zope 2.9.9 and 2.10.6 bugfix releases: Project pages: <http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.9.9> <http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.6> Release notes: <http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.9.9/CHANGES.txt> <http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.6/CHANGES.txt> Andreas Jung

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submit a talk for EuroPython!
by Martijn Faassen 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hi everybody, The EuroPython talk submission deadline is fast approaching. Please considering submitting a talk again at EuroPython last year. Europe has a very active Zope community, and last year Zope seemed to have more representation in web framework talks than the competition. Contrast this to PyCon, where our Zope community, unfortunately, isn't represented as well as it could be. I think this should happen again. Let's show that the Zope community is vibrant and is moving forward. We've seen lots of interesting new Zope-related initiatives and progress over the course of last year, so we should have something to talk about! Consider what would be interesting from the perspective of a Python developer or Python web developer as well; perhaps you can sneak Zope technology up on people by submitting a talk less obviously about Zope. :) http://www.europython.org/community/CallForParticipation http://www.europython.org/community/Talk_Submissions Regards, Martijn

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