Hello Zope Fans: Things are continuing at a breakneck pace in Zopeland as usual. Zope is getting more press these days. And what with Linux Expo being a success, press activity will probably increase. The main things that happened this week were Linux Expo and people getting a chance to try out Zope 2 alpha 1. (Note: since I didn't get around to writing a Zope Weekly News last week, this one covers some material from last week.) * Zope got some media attention this week to go along with the Linux Expo hoopla. There is a collection of media links at the Zope site. http://www.zope.org/Information/Media * Lots of information on Zope including articles and software is also available at the Open Directory Project. The editors of the Zope section are clearly on top of things. http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Application/Zope/ * Zope appeared on the cover of a German magazine, Linux Magazin. It includes an article by Tom Riedl entitled "Zope:(Z)open Zource Zoftware". http://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgabe.1999.06/Zope/zope.html * An article on Zope entitled "No-cost software can bring unexpected dividends" appeared in the Washington Business Journal. http://www.amcity.com/washington/stories/1999/05/24/focus4.html * Paul Everitt's talk on Zope from WWW8 entitled "Funding the Perfect Beast: Open Source, Business, and Venture Capitalism" is now on-line. http://www.digicool.com/Library/FTPB/index.html * Toby Dickerson announced a NTUserFolder Product to allow Zope to use NT accounts for authentication. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-May/004663.html * Alexander Staubo announced a method for running ZServer is a service under NT. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-May/004644.html * Amos Latteier announced an unsupported COM Product for Zope. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-May/000435.html http://www.zope.org/Download/Prereleases/COMObject * Chris Petrilli announced a LDAP Methods proposal and asked for comments. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-May/000432.html http://www.zope.org/Projects/ZLDAPMethods/ZLDAPMethods.pdf * Rob Page announced a Zope training session, and a week later announced that it had filled up. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-May/004415.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-May/004672.html * There were several threads about ZODB 3, its features and its limitations. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-May/004616.html * An interesting thread sees Ryan Daum and Paul Everitt discussing reasons to choose or not choose Zope for a web development project. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-May/004713.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-May/004715.html * The ZDP is seeing lots of action these days. The ZDP site has seen some changes of late, many different people are toying with the idea of writing a Zope book, Tom Deprez is working on a major piece on Zope, Amos Latteier posted a proposal for a Zope Developer's Guide, and more! http://zdp.zope.org/ http://zdp.zope.org/guide/ http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-May/000329.html Till next week, keep on Zoping. -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com