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Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG June 8
by Gary Poster 27 May '05

27 May '05

Please join us June 8, 7:30-9:00 PM, for the inaugural meeting of the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group ("ZPUG"). Tres Seaver, architect of the Zope Content Management Framework, will present. Further meetings are planned for the second Wednesday of every month. Location will be at the Zope Corporation offices. Further details below, and at http://www.zope.org/Members/poster/ fxbgzpug_announce. Gary --------- Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG: second Wednesday of every month, 7:30-9:00 First meeting: June 8, 7:30. Speaker: Tres Seaver, architect of the Zope Content Management Framework (CMF). Topic: Selenium (automated cross-platform, cross-browser application browser tests, http://selenium.thoughtworks.com/index.html) as integrated with Zope 2 in Zelenium (http://www.zope.org/Members/ tseaver/Zelenium). Location: Zope Corporation offices (http://tinyurl.com/duoab or http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Zope+Corporation,+513+Prince+Edward +Street,+Fredericksburg,+VA +22401&ll=38.298600,-77.457900&spn=0.032410,0.068500&hl=en) Parking: Zope Corporation parking lot; entrance on Prince Edward Street. Future topics: As desired (and offered) by participants, within the constraints of having to do with Python. Possible topics include presentations referencing Zope 3, Zope 2, Twisted Framework, core Python topics, Python and XML, Zope Object Database (ZODB), Macintosh OS X application development with Python, etc.

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New Zealand Zope Users Group (NZZUG) website launched
by Tim Knapp 26 May '05

26 May '05

Hello, The New Zealand Zope Users Group (NZZUG) website has been created with the following objective (taken from the NZZUG site's homepage): "Our aim is to promote the use and ongoing development of Zope, Plone and Python technologies in NZ." Currently the site's focal point is a mailing list but it's intended to eventually contain a directory of Plone/Zope Solution Providers in New Zealand. The site's sponsor is TheVirtual Limited, who have been developing Plone/Zope solutions for over 5 years now and are very interested in promoting Plone/Zope in New Zealand, especially its multi-lingual capabilities. If you are based in New Zealand, please take a look at the site, join the mailing list, and help Plone/Zope to grow in New Zealand! If you have any queries about NZZUG or anything else, feel free to contact me. Kind regards, -- Tim Knapp TheVirtual Ltd Voice: +64 3 9800661 Christchurch, New Zealand Mobile: +64 21 1566405 www.thevirtual.co.nz tim(a)thevirtual.co.nz Making Virtual Business Reality

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[ANN] Epoz 2.0.0 released
by Maik Jablonski 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hi, I've just released Epoz 2.0.0. Main new features are: - You can now use several Epoz-Wysiwyg-areas on a single page at once. This feature was often requested (esp. for use with Archetypes) and Benoit Pin did a really great job on making this real. Many, many Thanks, Benoit! Never thought that this was possible at all...;) Sorry, it took so long to roll the things out on my side... - The customizing of the Toolbar should be easier now with CSS. - Several other fixed stated in the CHANGES.txt (!!! Please read it before updating Epoz!!!) Download Epoz at: http://mjablonski.zope.de/Epoz Demo (with two widgets at once): http://www.zfl.uni-bielefeld.de/personal/mjablonski/epoz Keep zoped, Maik

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 2.2.0 final released
by Andreas Jung 22 May '05

22 May '05

I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG 2.2.0 final Changes since V 2.2.0 b2: - minor cleanup + optimizations TextIndexNG homepage: http://www.zopyx.com/OpenSource/TextIndexNG Download http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG Cheers, Andreas

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[ANN] Zope 2.8.0 b2 released
by Andreas Jung 22 May '05

22 May '05

Dear Zope Community, on behalf of Zope Corporation and all Zope 2 developers and contributors I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.8.0 beta 2 Zope 2.8.0 b2 can be downloaded from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.0b2 The release notes can be found at http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.0b2/CHANGES.txt For information on using Python 2.4 with Zope 2.8: see doc/INSTALL.txt This release is a major step towards Zope 2.8.0 final (scheduled for the 3rd week of May 2005) and now includes for the first time the "Five" framework to make some Zope 3 technologies available within Zope 2. So you will be able to use Z3 technologies like interfaces, adapters, schemas and views within your Zope 2 installation and have hopefully the best from the Zope 2 and the Zope 3 world. Andreas Jung Zope 2 Release Manager

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[ANN] PloneCollectorNG 1.2.7 released
by Andreas Jung 21 May '05

21 May '05

I am pleased to announce the release of PloneCollectorNG 1.2.7 (PCNG) PloneCollectorNG is a Plone-based bugtracking solution and framework. This is basically a bug-fix release and incorporates a bunch of fixes collected over the last half year. Changes since V 1.2.6: - added new configuration where you can choose to display the 'contact_email' field or not - Copying a collector caused the loss of all workflow states - fixed UnicodeDecodeError in notifications.py which issues containing non-ascii characters - misc bug fixes Documentation: http://www.zopyx.com/OpenSource/PloneCollectorNG Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55262&package_id=96051 Andreas Jung zopyx.com - Software Development and Consulting Andreas Jung

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 3.0.1 released
by Andreas Jung 21 May '05

21 May '05

I am pleased to announce the final release of TextIndexNG V 3.0.0. TextIndexNG V 3 is a complete new implementation based on Zope 3 technologies and can be used both in Zope 2.8 or 2.7 (with Five) 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 since V 3.0.0: - core query options are now available from _apply_index() - new query option 'similarity_ratio' - splitted configuration into Zope 2 and TextIndexNG3 core related configuration files - removed some Zope 2 dependencies from the "textindexng" package - incorporated some patches by Ivo van der Wijk to integrate TextIndexNG3 as index for Zope 3.1 (requires to uncomment some lines in src/textindexng/configure.zcml) - updated documentation on query syntax and query options (see doc/README.txt) - some more tests Requirements: - Zope 2.8 or Zope 2.7 (+ Five) or Zope 3 (Zope 3 has nothing like catalogs yet) TextIndexNG V3 will *not* run with bare Zope 2.7 installations without Five (and this will not be changed in the future). Download: http://sf.net/projects/textindexng 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 GPL. Andreas Jung ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Andreas Jung ZOPYX Software Development and Consulting - - E-mail: info(a)zopyx.com Web: www.zopyx.com - -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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ZODB 3.4 beta 1 released
by Tim Peters 20 May '05

20 May '05

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.4 beta 1. This corresponds to the ZODB that will ship in Zope 2.8b2. You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.4 Note that there are two Windows installers, for Python 2.3 (2.3.5 is recommended) and Python 2.4 (2.4.1 is recommended). ZODB 3.4b1 contains many bugfixes and new features, including: - savepoint/rollback support, a powerful generalization of subtransactions allowing to revert to any savepoint'ed state within a transaction - auto-synchronization with storages after a transaction commit or abort, and at the explict start (transaction.begin()) of a transaction - a way to register callbacks invoked just before a transaction starts to commit -- see the new transaction.beforeCommitHook() - a new release of ZConfig See the news file for details: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.4/NEWS.html Note that ZODB 3.4 does not support any version of Zope 2.6 or 2.7. Current Zope 2.8 and Zope 3 development use ZODB 3.4. The ZODB 3.3 line is officially retired (3.3.1 final was the last release in the 3.3 line).

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Announce: Zope 3 training June 27 -29
by Brian Lloyd 19 May '05

19 May '05

Zope Corporation will hold the next session of Zope 3 for Developers training June 27-29 in Fredericksburg, VA. This three day course will familiarize developers with Zope 3 software from introductory through advanced concepts. The take-away materials provide tools for further learning, since it will not be possible to cover every topic in the sessions. We will demonstrate the flexibility and effectiveness of Zope as an Open Source web development Platform. Course Objectives To understand: * Zope's component architecture, * Creating Zope components and applications, * Building web interfaces, * Controlling security, * Using powerful Zope framework features e.g., events, metadata, schemas, testing, * Configuring and installing Zope The course is intended for developers who want to build web applications using the Zope 3 web-application server. Students should be familiar with the Python programming language and the concepts associated with web application development. While not required, students will benefit from having some familiarity with Zope 2-based application development. We offer several opportunities to meet with Zope's engineering teams, including with Jim Fulton, our CTO. Prerequisites Download Zope 2.7 and take the built-in tutorial: http://zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.0 Take the Python Tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html For the early-bird rate, you must register by May 27th, 2005. Sincerely, Brian Lloyd brian(a)zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com

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zopewiki news for april
by Simon Michael 18 May '05

18 May '05

*About the Zopewiki project* zopewiki.org aims to be a simple, comprehensive, user-maintained repository for Zope documentation, notes and links - a hitch-hiker's guide to Zope. See http://zopewiki.org for more. *News* In april, the wiki seemed to come alive due to the number of different people editing (10, as a rough guess). There has been a fair amount of cleanup activity in recent weeks. Some anti-spam measures were installed and there have been no spam incidents recently. This impacts users, however: you will not be allowed to add external links until you have configured a username at http://zopewiki.org/ZopeWiki/useroptions . At the moment this is not spelled out explicitly. The mirrored ZopeBook content has been removed in favour of links to the master copy at plope.com. There is a page linking to each chapter, which might serve for annotation/discussion of the chapters as long as backtalk comments are disabled. For more, see http://zopewiki.org/ZopeWikiNews http://zopewiki.org/ZopeWikiDiscussion http://zopewiki.org/WikiStats

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