Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:39:24 -0500
From: “Mike Pelletier” <<a
href=”mailto:mike@digicool.com”>mike@digicool.com
To: editors@linuxtoday.com
G’day,
Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and
interesting events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing
lists and the Zope.org site. It is published each Wednesday
evening.
Somewhat quiet this week, as much of the Zope community
struggles to deal with turkey overload.
New Products and Announcements
* “gaaros” released a new product called FSSession. It allows
you to store per-session information on the filesystem.
http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/FSSession
Updates
* “anthony” updated his SQLSessions product. SQLSessions uses
SQL databases to store information on a per-session basis.
http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/software/SQLSession/sqlsession_v_0_2_2_n
ews
* “MikeP” updated the ZDiscussions product. This release adds a
preview function and makes customisation at the instance level much
easier.
http://www.zope.org/Members/MikeP/ZDiscussions
Zope.org items
* Paul Everitt has published a page with Zope logos and a ZIP
file containing EPS versions.
http://www.zope.org/Images/Logos.html
* “TheJester” has posted a How-to on getting the SybaseDA
working on FreeBSD, with patches.
http://www.zope.org/Members/TheJester/SybaseDA
* “hippy” has submitted a How-to explaining the use of the
GenericUserFolder product to store authentication information in an
SQL database.
http://www.zope.org/Members/hippy/GUF_SQL_crypt
* “Amos” wrote a How-to about using ZPublisher and ZServer to
publish arbitrary Python modules. If you remember Bobo, this will
be familiar.
http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/ZPublisher
Notable Discussions
* Paul Everitt put out a call for Zope Solution Providers to
participate in a referral program.
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014717.html
* “FR Chalaoux” announced the creation of Zope France to provide
a place for Francophone Zope users to meet. Please send email for
more information.
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014701.html
* Scott Robertson <<a
href=”mailto:sroberts@codeit.com”>sroberts@codeit.com> of
CodeIt Computing has put out a call for full-time developers.
CodeIt is located in southern California.
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014653.html
* Arjan Scherpenisse put out feelers for non-web based Zope
management clients. Stephen Pitts offers a lead.
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014651.html
* The high volume of the Zope lists has become a topic again.
Suggestions have been made to start a Zope newsgroup, but many
believe that would only aggravate the problem by inviting more
off-topic, spammy and flammable posts. Some have suggested a
private (as in open but not part of USENET), gatewayed server. So
far, no one has stepped up to the plate by producing one.
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014608.html
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014611.html
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014613.html
— Mike Pelletier.