[Zope] FYI: Zope Weekly News

[Amos Latteier]

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

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