As the track chair for Europython 2004 Zope track it is my pleasure to hype up some excellent news about the schedule and get your apetite up for for the best ever Zope track at Europython. Never mind that there are other excellent tracks running at the same time -- since we have such a fabulous show that if you are interested in Zope, you will be glued down to your seat! First of all we are now running for three full days and have each day packed with excellent talks. Whether you are into Silva, CPS, Plone, Zope 3 or doing your first projects and just trying to figure out where and how people use Zope. Especially cool is that on the first day of the conference we will have Rob Page from Zope Corporation doing two talks, one presenting more about status of Zope Corporation and how they see the business - and second talk about how they do Zope-projects. These talks alone should be enough for you to register and come to the conference. http://www.europython.org/conferences/epc2004/info/talks/talkMatrix?day=1 Naturally we will also have major contributions and news from the development of Zope 3. Philipp von Weitershausen and Steve Alexander will hold talk about Zope 3, Jim Fulton will present Zope Roadmap and Aroldo Souza-Leite presents the status of Zope3 Common Criteria Certification. These talks should be enough to get your apetite ready for coming Zope 3 releases in the future. And if you are an Archetypes-junkie - then you just can't miss out talks by Benjamin Saller and Andreas Jung. These brave lads will actually tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Archetypes. If you do professional Plone work, then these talks combined with Alexander Limi's wrapup talk about Plone status should be enough to convince you and your boss to cough up some euros for travel expenses. http://www.europython.org/conferences/epc2004/info/talks/talkMatrix?day=2 And we haven't forgotten those of you who use or are interested to know more about CPS. Our friends from Nuxeo and other contributors will have extremely interesting talks about CPS as a whole, but also about certain components - including CPS Schemas and Directories. And if this is not enough, we have some major cool stuff waiting you on the last half of the last day. We will have few Zope specific lightningtalks - including some casefiles -- and then our special event, that will be revealed soon. I can't yet reveal it's contents - but if you are in to Zope CMS business or doing work with Zope based content management tools, then this is something you just can't miss. So unless you have some reading disorder or if your family doctor has restrained you from traveling, it should be clear that there is no reason whatsoever to miss Europython. So whatever you wre doing - drop that now, and point your browser to http://www.europython.org. Registering is easy and it makes you feel better. Really. Be a better human being, come to Europython 2004! -- -huima