Hello, It's been yet another jam packed week for Zope. There were community advances in Zope development, documentation, and advocacy. Keep up the good work Zopistas! * Atlanta Linux Showcase was held this week and it included a talk by Digital Creations' Paul Everitt, and a Zope Birds of a Feather session. http://lwn.net/1999/features/ALS/ * There was lots of discussion about a Linux.com community ad for Zope. Chris McDonough got things rolling and it snowballed from there with many creative ideas. Then the conversation turned to the merits of the name 'Zope' which many folks seem to think is actually reasonable despite sounding somewhat silly. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012037.html http://www.zope.org/Members/webmaven/zope-banner-1.gif * Martijn Faassen announced XMLWidgets 0.2. This release includes a number of demos which reveal that this is shaping up to be a very powerful Zope product. Go Martijn! http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/XMLWidgets * Gerard Mulot announced a complete Zope application available for downloading. It sounds like it could be a good source of Zope examples. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012252.html http://www.zope.org/Members/gerard/centaur/index_html * Ian Clarke started a discussion about the future of Zope and Zope clients. One could develop many types of Zope clients such as Java applets, Mozilla XUL apps, or local apps coded in almost anything which spoke to Zope over XML-RPC. Of course a full Zope client would be a major undertaking and no one so far seems to be seriously planning such a project. * Pavlos Christoforou announced a How-To on storing information outside the ZODB. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012374.html * Zope veteran Martijn Pieters announced that he'll be giving a presentation on Zope at the Dutch Unix Users Group (NLUUG). http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012393.html * Johan Carlsson announced a ZIE update and Offline editor availability. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012400.html * Evan Simpson announced SiteAccess v0.1.0 which now allows virtual hosting. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012531.html * Ty Sarna announced Tranalyzer 1.0, a utility for analyzing and examining ZODB files. It includes the ability to watch transactions being committed to the ZODB (think tail -f). Can Ty continue to release yet another cool Zope tool *every* week? Tune in next week to find out. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-October/000050.html * The Zope Documentation Project continues to work tirelessly on their ZBook project. http://zdp.zope.org/ZBookStatus/ * David Kankiewicz and the ZQR team announced ZQR 0.8 If you aren't yet hip the ZQR (Zope Quick Reference) you should definitely check it out. http://www.zope.org/Members/ZQR * Stuart Bishop posted a How-To which describes Zope argument marshalling. Very useful! http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/howto/FormVariableTypes * Lalo Martins released an experimental Banner Ad product. http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/BannerFolder See you next week. -Amos == Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------