Archive for the 'Announcement' Category

This year’s Google Summer of Code program will see at least two interesting projects related to Zope, and getting Zope to run on different versions/implementations of Python. To keep track of the status of those projects the Zope Porting blog is born. Expect to see status update from the students there, as well as other [...]


Tarek Ziadé reports on PloneSoftwareCenter progress during the Paris Sprint. I am amazed to see the progress he and the folks helping him had so far. This is definitely all that I dreamed for when I started with the idea in January 2006. It is great to see that even though ideas take a little [...]


Guido van Rossum invites Python developers to try out his Code Review app, inspired by Mondrian but supporting Subversion instead of Perforce.


I am preparing PLIP #187 for review and further inclusion into Plone 3.1, after the official announcement of the PLIPs selected for inclusion. For a start, I’ve created a buildout starting from optilude’s own, then added the related branches and extra products into the buildout config. At this point, it should be possible to checkout [...]


Enfold Systems  and the Texas Learning and Computation Center will be sponsoring a one-day event at the University of Houston in November. What: Ploneability Higher EdPloneability Higher Ed is a one-day conference for college and university Web content managers, developers and site administrators to connect and share success stories involving Plone, the open-source content management [...]


In case the news didn’t make it to your inbox, Plone 3.0 has been released, with installers for many platforms, including Windows and Mac OS X. Thanks to everyone that contributed to this release! I’ve been a member of the Plone community since the start. Still remember the Plone 1.0 release, when I was at [...]


For the XML heads out there, get rid of your pointy-bracket thirst. The new lxml 1.3.2 release is up on the Python CheeseShop, and I’ve just finished uploading installers for Windows, compiled for Python 2.4 and Python 2.5. As usual, those binaries are statically compiled so there’s no extra dependencies to install. They have been [...]


Since my machine died I had the source of the Nautilus/Plone Desktop on my old PowerBook only, and the risk that it would be lost was high. This weekend I’ve moved it over to Google Code. That will be it’s home from now on. I hope to resume the deveopment sometime in the future.