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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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Grok 0.12 released!
by Jan-Wijbrand Kolman 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Hi everybody, The Grok team is happy to announce the release of Grok 0.12! Grok is a web application framework built with Zope 3 technologies that aims to be easy to use. See also http://grok.zope.org/ This release is available on PyPI and a new index of specific versions of packages used by this release has been frozen at http://grok.zope.org/releaseinfo/grok-0.12.cfg. This means that new projects created with grokproject will start using this release right away. New Features ------------ * Viewlet support. Viewlets are highly configurable "part-of-page" components. Expect documentation on the website soon. * Automatic inclusion of dependencies. No more editing configure.zcml of your application when you add a new package to setup.py that has ZCML. Grok now automatically should find this dependency and loads its ZCML, so only editing setup.py and running bin/buildout should now be required. * Added testsetup classes in grok.testing to improve easy setup of unit- and functional tests. * Note also that the Base postfix feature has been removed. Classes with names that end with this postfix are not treated as Grok base classes anymore. Use the grok.baseclass directive instead. Upgrading --------- To upgrade an existing project from 0.11.x to 0.12 you have to: 1. change the 'extends' directive in your project's buildout.cfg to point to http://grok.zope.org/releaseinfo/grok-0.12.cfg 2. run ``bin/buildout`` in your project, to update the dependencies including the 0.12 egg of Grok itself For the detailed changelog, see Grok's PyPI entry page http://pypi.python.org/pypi/grok For detailed upgrade notes, including how to change your application, see http://grok.zope.org/project/upgrade-notes For installation instructions and much more on how to use Grok, see the Grok tutorial: http://grok.zope.org/documentation/book/ We hope to hear from you! ------------------------- If you enjoy Grok, please subscribe to the grok-dev mailing list and join us in the #grok channel on irc.freenode.net.

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Five Zope Foundation projects accepted to the Google Summer of Code!
by Martijn Faassen 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Hi there, I'm happy to announce that five student projects were accepted to the Google Summer of Code this year. It looked dark for a while with only 2 projects assigned at first, but luckily that changed. Thank you, Google! You can find an overview of the accepted projects here: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/zope/about.html Welcome Ranjith, Dirceu, Charith! Also welcome again to Uli and Luciano! In addition, Georgy Berdyshev submitted a project to the Python Software Foundation (under the Jython sub-banner) to port Zope 3 components to Jython. This is being mentored by Frank Wierzbicki, a lead developer of Jython. We should do our best to back up this very important project: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/psf/appinfo.html?csaid=59C7870763174C10 We also cannot forget our sister organization, the Plone Foundation, which also had 5 projects accepted. Some of the work done in these projects will doubtlessly feed back into Zope as well: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/plone/about.html In particular, the component registry introspector project by Martin Lundwall has already seen coordination with Uli's introspector project, so we're off to a good start in working together. Unfortunately we had a limited amount of slots and more worthwhile proposals than we should allocate, so there were worthwhile projects we had to reject. I'd like to thank the students who submitted them for their work. I hope that this won't discourage you from Zope. Hopefully we will see you around, and please do try again next year if you'd like! Thanks also to the mentors for all your feedback so far. Now the *real* work will start. I'd like to thank Aroldo especially for his tireless help in preparing us all for the Summer of Code. He worked hard to get all the administrative details worked out. Soon I will write a followup message to the gsoc(a)zope.org list (mentors, students, you are all subscribed, aren't you?) with some guidelines for how we'd like to conduct our projects this year. Regards, Martijn, mentor coordinator

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Google Summer of Code: submission deadline extended
by Martijn Faassen 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hi there, Because there was a lot of feedback from different projects that the student application deadline was rather tight this year, Google has extended the submission deadline for the Google Summer of Code has been extended for a week until april 7. This gives us two chances: * if you're a student and you didn't manage to submit your proposal in time, now is the time to submit it! * if you did submit a proposal, now is the time to improve it. Our mentors will be giving feedback to your proposals and will ask for improvements. You can also discuss your proposals on this list (or on the appropriate other zope mailing list if you want to get the voice of others in our community - I've seen Jim Fulton reply to someone's request for comments already, for instance). Let's make use of this extension the best we can! Regards, Martijn, Zope Foundation Google summer of code mentor coordinator

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Zope Foundation Summer of Code: deadline tomorrow!
by Martijn Faassen 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hi there, If you want to submit a Zope-related proposal to the Google summer of code, today and tomorrow are your last chance! The submission period ends 0:00 UTC april 1, 2008, that's this monday 5:00 PM PDT over in California, and 10 PM (22:00) CEST over here where I am in the Netherlands. So, if you want to participate, go check out our proposals page: http://wiki.zope.org/gsoc/SummerOfCode2008 Or come up with your own proposal, and join our mailing list: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc And submit your proposal in the summer of code: http://code.google.com/soc/2008 under the 'Zope Foundation' project. Regards, Martijn

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students, submit your Google Summer of Code project ideas!
by Martijn Faassen 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

Are you a student and are you interested to hack on Zope, the ZODB or Grok for the summer? Do you want to be helped by an expert mentor? And get money and a t-shirt? The Zope Foundation is participating in the Google Summer of Code for the second time this year, and the time for you to apply is now! The applications just opened yesterday, but deadline for student applications is monday, march 31, so there isn't a lot of time. We're really excited to be part of this program again, and we hope we get many good student applications. What to do to apply? * Sign up to our gsoc mailing list: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc * See our wiki page for project ideas: http://wiki.zope.org/gsoc/SummerOfCode2008 Your own ideas are very welcome too! If you have an other project idea and you aren't sure there is interest, do discuss it on our gsoc mailing list. Introducing yourself there is smart anyway, as the mentors are listening! * Then follow this guide to get signed up with Google and make an application: http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/guide-to-… Martijn Faassen - Zope Foundation gsoc mentor coordinator

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Grokkerdam sprint!
by Martijn Faassen 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

The "Grokkerdam" Grok sprint ============================ It was planned for a long time, but at last we are going to hold a Grok sprint in the Netherlands. To be more precise, in Rotterdam. Rotterdam will be "Grokkerdam" for the duration of the sprint! Where: Rotterdam, the Netherlands When: 30 april - 5 may 2008 Who: hopefully, you! A number of experienced Grokkers will be there. People of all experience levels are welcome, as long as you're interested in helping us improve Grok. Tasks could be anything Grok related. Some possible topics: * improving the Grok introspector UI * relational database integration for Grok * Polishing Grok's KSS integration * Preparing for Grok's 1.0 release * Documentation ... or whatever you want to work on! Sign up for the sprint on our wiki page, here: http://wiki.zope.org/grok/GrokkerdamSprint If you have any comments or questions, please mail me! Our generous host for this sprint is The Health Agency (http://www.thehealthagency.com/) a company that uses Grok for its own web applications here in Rotterdam. Note: this sprint is back-to-back with the Plone 3 sprint in Paris (25-27 april), hosted by Ingeniweb. Rotterdam is 3 hours away from Paris by train. You could participate in both sprints and enjoy a few days of Paris (or Rotterdam) in between.

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Looking for Google Summer of Code mentors!
by Martijn Faassen 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Hi there, We are quickly approaching the Google of Summer of code again. The Zope Foundation's application needs to be in soon. In order to do a good application, we need to have a good selection of mentors. So, if you're a Zope developer and you want to mentor a student this summer, please add yourself to the list here: http://wiki.zope.org/gsoc/SummerOfCode2008 Don't wait: the Zope Foundation's application needs to be in *very* soon (by the 11th of march). The more mentors we have the better a chance we stand in getting projects accepted. Being a mentor isn't difficult and it can be very rewarding. All four of the students involved in the summer of code (Paul Carduner who worked on ajax for z3c.form, Nikhil N who worked on Zope 3 python 2.5 support, Uli Fouquet who worked on Grok's introspection UI and Luciano Ramalho who worked on a Grok-based application) are still active in our community, which we consider a great success! Being mentor is a privilege, and also a responsibility. We do expect mentors to stay in regular touch with their students. This means email and normal involvement on project mailing lists, but also in addition to this a weekly hour or so on irc and/or voice. We also have a few simple reporting requirements so that your mentor coordinator (yours truly) knows what's up and can solve any potential problems. Sign up and become a mentor! Everybody else (including mentors, students and others): * suggest projects, also on the same wiki page * suggest other mentors. Tell people who you *want* to be mentors to sign up. Everybody likes to be told they can be mentors, so tell them in public and get them to sign up. Students: * Mark the sign-up period on your calendar: it starts march 24. If we get accepted, then is the time to sign up. Regards, Martijn

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Zope 3.4.0 candidate 1 Released
by Stephan Richter 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

January 31, 2008 - The Zope 3 development team announces the Zope 3.4.0c1 release. This release is the first release candidate for Zope 3.4.0. It was preceeded by an early beta 2 release back in November, 2007. Zope 3.4 introduces support for binary large objects in the ZODB, and provides a new postprocessing hook for publishing results. Many of the packages also provide small feature improvements that are too numerous to list at this point. Packages and Eggs ----------------- Since the first Zope 3.4 alpha and beta releases, we have finished the transition to a completely egg-based system. This largely means that most Zope 3 developers do not use the classic Zope 3 tar ball release anymore. However, for your convenience, the Zope 3 developers will provide the classic Zope 3 tar ball releases for at least the 3.4 series and probably for 3.5 as well. So how are Zope 3 applications built using only eggs? The Known Good Set (KGS) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The known good set -- or in short KGS -- is a package index that derives from the official Python Package Index (PyPI) and thus contains all available packages in the Python world. But for a controlled set of packages, only certain versions that are known to work together are available. The list of controlled packages and their versions for Zope 3.4 can be found at the index page [1]_. The index can be used in several ways -- described here for `buildout`-based projects. The easiest method is to specify the index option in your ``buildout.cfg`` file:: [buildout] index = http://download.zope.org/zope3.4 ... You can also "nail" the versions by downloading the versions [2]_ and insert them as follows: [buildout] versions = versions ... [versions] zope.interface = 3.4.0 ... ``zopeproject`` Project Builder ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Philipp von Weitershausen has developed a package called `zopeproject` to quickly setup the boilerplate for any Zope 3 based project. Ample documentation is provided at the `zopeproject` home page [3]_. `zopeproject` uses Paste or ZDaemon to create a working server. Here are the necessary commands to get a project started:: $ easy_install zopeproject $ zopeproject HelloWorld $ cd HelloWorld $ bin/helloworld-ctl foreground Demo Packages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At this point, there is no demo package demonstrating a simple Zope 3 application setup. (I hope one gets developed before Zope 3.4.0 final.) However, the ``z3c.formdemo`` package can be used as a fairly minimal setup. To get started with it, do the following:: $ svn co svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/z3c.formdemo/tags/1.5.1 formdemo $ cd formdemo $ python bootstrap.py $ ./bin/buildout -v $ ./bin/demo fg .. [1] http://download.zope.org/zope3.4/controlled-packages.cfg .. [2] http://download.zope.org/zope3.4/versions.cfg .. [3] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zopeproject What is Zope 3? --------------- Zope 3 is a web application server that continues to build on the heritage of Zope. It was rewritten from scratch based on the latest software design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2. The component architecture is the very core of Zope 3 that allows developers to create flexible and powerful web applications. Compatibility with Zope 2 -------------------------- Zope 3 is not upwards compatible with Zope 2. This means you cannot run Zope 2 applications in Zope 3. We continue to work on the transition from Zope 2 to Zope 3 by making Zope 2 use more and more of the Zope 3 infrastructure. This means that new code written in Zope 2 can benefit from Zope 3 technology. Also, with care, code can be written that works in both Zope 3 and Zope 2. This allows a Zope 2 application to slowly evolve towards Zope 3. Unchanged Zope 2 applications are never expected to work in Zope 3, however. Downloads --------- - Zope 3.4 Egg Index: http://download.zope.org/zope3.4 - Zope 3.4 Controlled Packages: http://download.zope.org/zope3.4/controlled-packages.cfg - Zope 3.4 Latest Versions: http://download.zope.org/zope3.4/versions.cfg - The classic Zope 3 source release can be downloaded from: http://zope.org/Products/Zope3 Installation instructions for both Windows and Un*x/Linux are now available in the top level `README.txt` file of the distribution. The binary installer is recommended for Windows. Zope 3.4 requires Python 2.4.4 to run. You must also have zlib installed on your system. Resources --------- - Zope 3 Development Web Site: http://wiki.zope.org/zope3 - Zope 3 Developers Mailing List: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev Retired: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-dev - Zope 3 Users Mailing List: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users - Bug tracker at launchpad: https://launchpad.net/zope3 - IRC Channel: #zope3-dev at irc.freenode.net Acknowledgments --------------- Much thanks to everyone who contributed to this release. Since all contributions are now spread over a multitude of packages, listing all contributors is not feasible anymore.

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Enfold Desktop 4.0 release -- it's overhauled and now free!
by Alan Runyan 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Those with short attention spans, can download now: * http://www.enfoldsystems.com/Products/Desktop/4/download Enfold Systems today made the first public beta release of Enfold Desktop 4, the product that makes content managers more productive by providing Windows desktop access to Plone. With version 4, Enfold Desktop for the first time will be available to all users free of charge, for use with any Plone site. You no longer have to explain to people how to get Web Folder's to work on Windows (often Web Folders does not work due to Microsofts broken implementation). Enfold Desktop just works! New features in Enfold Desktop 4 include: * Use Enfold Desktop free of charge, without limits on the number of users or server connections. * Use the Desktop client component with any Plone site; the Desktop server component is now optional. * Install and use the Desktop client on Windows Vista. * Choose the level of support that's right for you with new annual subscriptions. * Works with *ANY* DAV Server, Zope, Apache/mod_dav, IIS and Plone! Enfold Desktop 4 also includes enhancements to the usability and performance of Desktop's core features: * Save time uploading content by using drag-and-drop to move items–individually or in bulk–between the Windows desktop and Plone. * Save time editing Plone content in programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Dreamweaver or a text editor by opening items directly from the Windows file manager. * Also use the Windows file manager to quickly move content within Plone and change such metadata as name, title, description and workflow state. For a full list of changes, see the Enfold Desktop 4 page: * http://www.enfoldsystems.com/Products/Desktop/4/download Depending on user feedback, the production-ready Enfold Desktop 4.0 release should be available within a few weeks. -- Alan Runyan Enfold Systems, Inc. http://www.enfoldsystems.com/ phone: +1.713.942.2377x111 fax: +1.832.201.8856

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