[Zope-CMF] is there an event content in the works

[Juan David Ibáñez Palomar]

Hello,

The iCalendar product has already a plug-in architecture based on
the product PlugIns, so it's possible to implement new kind of
events that for example store its data in a relational database.

Obviously there're probably better solutions for that, like to use
ZPatterns but I don't have experience with them, if somebody wants
to help..

Also, you probably would like to look at:

  http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/ORMappingDB



jdavid


> 
> Hello,
> 
> (blushing and a bit shy to make this reply.. but it came to me and I 
> think its a good idea so what the hell)
> 
> 	Let me be the devils advocate and advocate some pragmatic 
> development of something that perhaps could be a BIG selling point 
> for Zope in the greater Net community..
> 
>    Why not build a CMF module that had some standardized hooks to an 
> SQL database,  or better yet, develop a Zope-wide standard for using 
> plug-in SQL functionality at isolated places like this where they 
> would save a lot of work in Zope?
> 
> (not unlike the concepts of using databases for ZODB 'storage' or the 
> way several products work now..but this hasn't really become 
> standardized.)
> 
> I have been building a event announcement/display and calendaring 
> system for my employer, MSRI, using a hybrid Zope/Oracle 7 
> combination, and as we know, the combination of Zope (with 
> dtml-sendmail) and an SQL backend is an almost unbeatable one.
> 
> There is no denying that it *excels* in dealing with (searching, etc) 
> situations like searching and storing large amounts of frequently 
> changing datetime data.
> 
> Why not create and standardize an SQL-centric add-on like this..so 
> that people could develop Zope products for it?
> 
> Adding a method of installing a Postgres instance, say, into Zope 
> with a simple installer script similar to the current Zope binary 
> install would make this unbeatable combo very, very easy to work with 
> (i.e. some standard functionality add-ons could be built simply) and 
> fun to boot..
> 
>   Right now the variations of SQL syntax may intimidate some of the 
> newcomers, but if there was a standard (i.e. 'plug-in') way to 
> integrate them, I think that would be a VERY big plus for Zope as 
> well.
> 
> And it would let everyone start cooperating on some *really* cool 
> Zope add-ons that could take the whole thing to another level, I 
> think..
> 
> Just my (admittedly newbie) thoughts on this idea..
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> >  > I looking for an event-content for the CMF, with features like:
> >>
> >>  - announce an event, like a concert
> >>  - ticket reservation
> >>  - mailing of new events to registered members
> >>
> >>  is somebody already working on such a thing, or what is the best way, to
> >>  initiate and colaborate on the development ?
> >
> >If you find one, I'd like to hear about it.  If you decide to write
> >one, I'd like to participate!  (We'll need one for the zopified
> >python.org site.)
> >
> >--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
> >
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