Hi, This week saw the release of ZCatalog, the first component of the Zope Portal Toolkit. Finally searching Zope objects is becoming easier. Behind the scenes work continues on Zope 2.0. Jim Fulton estimated that Zope 2 will enter beta in 3 weeks. In addition, Eric Raymond's mention of Zope this week (at Microsoft and in an essay) is further proof that Zope is becoming an influential open source project. * Jonathan Corbet pointed out that Eric Raymond mentioned Zope in his latest essay, "The Magic Cauldron". He discusses Zope in the context of how to make a living with open source. He calls Digital Creation's model "Give Away the Recipe, Open A Restaurant". http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/ http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/magic-cauldron-9.html #ss9.3 * Michel Pelletier announced the first release of ZCatalog. This is the first component of the Zope Portal Toolkit to be released. ZCatalog allows indexing and searching of Zope objects. http://www.zope.org/Download/ZCatalog http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/006059.html * Butch Landingin announced release 0.1.5 of his Squishdot Zope news and discussion Product. http://members.tripod.com/squishdot/index.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/006077.html * Mark Pratt announced that the second Berlin Zope Barbecue went well and that the next one is planned for July 16. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/006020.html * FTP/DAV editing issues came up once again this week. Customizing FTP and DAV behavior is a complex problem. Some creative ideas were discussed, but no definitive solution has emerged yet. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/006115.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/006171.html * Phillip Eby and others worked on a solution to displaying data from a SQL database as a dynamic tree. Cool! http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/006087.html * @mgmt announced that they will offer Zope hosting services. http://www.mgmt-inc.com/ * Pam Crosby announced some Zope Documentation plans. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/006177.html * Thilo Mezger announced a mailing list for the Zope Internationalization Project. http://www.eevolute.com/mailman/listinfo/zip http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-June/000651.html Keep on Zoping. -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com