[This is a general call for offers to interested parties. Apologies for the cross-post] Greetings, my organisation needs to hold one or more sessions of Zope training to meet current and future development and deployment needs. We use Zope as one of several (Web-)Application frameworks, and we typically need to interface and cooperate with external data sources (for example, User Management with Kerberos and other external User Sources providing user data - meaning we cannot base our UserFolders' data on Zope alone). We will have a group of 8-12 people, most - if not all - experienced developers who will need to learn how to develop Applications on Zope, CMF, Plone and CPS. Participants can be assumed to know how to develop in Python (we will make sure of that). We also want to focus on efficient ways to make Zope talk to Oracle, LDAP and MySQL (in that order) in an efficient and speedy manner, and how to develop high-speed, clusterable (ZEO) solutions with Zope-based technology. At the end of the course(s) we expect the participants to be able to have a thorough understanding of what kind of frameworks Zope, CMF, Plone and CPS are, what their differences and their similarities are. We also expect participants to know how to customise, adapt and develop applications based on Zope, CMF, CPS and Plone, how to develop add-ons to the above and how to develop Products that work with all of CMF, CPS and Plone. To clarify, we also expect participants to be tought development techniques with File System based tools - not only on the Product level but on a solution level (i.e. all customisations, etc, of a site should be script/FS based as well). The course(s) are scheduled to be held in March-April and possibly May, at Chalmers University of technology, Göteborg, Sweden. We are not exclusively looking for a single party to provide courses for all of Zope, CMF, CPS and Plone; for example, you are welcome to offer training that only covers Plone or CPS. While many of our participants can read and write english very well, they may be untrained in communicating verbally in English. It is therefore a plus if trainers are fluent in Swedish - it is an absolute requirement that trainers have good English communicative skills. Please send your initial proposals per mail to the following address: zope-training@ita.chalmers.se Please specify the following: - Acceptable number of particiants - What parts you are interested in - A draft description of the training contents - As estimate of the amount of work required from participants - Your estiamte on how many sessions are needed - Preliminary budget If you have any questions regarding this offer, please contact me directly at dario@ita.chalmers.se. Sincerely, Dario Lopez-Kästen IT Systems & Services Chalmers University of Technology Göteborg, Sweden -- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Lopez-Kästen, IT Systems & Services Chalmers University of Tech. "...and click? damn, I need to kill -9 Word again..." - b using macosx