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.
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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
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
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/CallForParticipationhttp://www.europython.org/community/Talk_Submissions
Regards,
Martijn