Upgrade of plone4scientists|universities site

Hi there,

I just upgraded the Plone installation running the P4U and P4S sites to
from Plone 3.0.1 to Plone 3.1.7.

Please contact me directly if you encounter any issues.

Andreas

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Plone in four-way battle at ASU [was: [pbc2] Python and Plone Boot Camps in Chapel Hill, NC]

I sent out an invitation to some Plone Boot Camps in North Carolina. My 
good buddy, Plone Boot Camp alum, and longtime Zoper Tom Bennett at 
Appalachian State (ASU) replied with the news below of a CMS shoot-out 
for campus CMS at ASU. Plone's turn is tomorrow.

This email is mainly for your awareness. I don't expect anyone to drop 
what they are doing to investigate or try to get involved to help in 
this. But if that is your thing, both a website about the shoot-out and 
contacts are listed below. I regret I could not tell you about this 
sooner. I'm sure opportunities like this fly by all the time.

For further awareness, ASU is the home and birthplace of their own 
homegrown PHP-based CMS called phpWebSite. It's nowhere near Plone. But 
it is theirs. http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/

Tom,

You may want to check out a marketing case study site at 
http://plone.net if you haven't already.

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office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

On 5/22/2008 9:37 AM, Thomas Bennett wrote:
> Chris,
> 
>    Good to hear from you again.  This is great timing, at 10:00 am this 
> morning we are looking at the first of 4 candidates for a campus CMS and the 
> first one is Plone.  I will see that all receive this announcement.  I plan 
> on registering for one or more of these.
> 
> The others, pasted from the initial email, are:
> 
> Plone - Thursday, May 22, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Room 114 Belk Library
> Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) - Wednesday, May 28, 2:00 to 
> 3:30 p.m. Room 114 Belk Library
> Drupal - Thursday, May 29, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Room 114 Belk Library
> phpWebSite - Friday, May 30, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. Room 114 Belk Library
> 
> Timeline:
> 
> Spring/Summer 2008 - review CMS candidates, obtain user feedback, and 
> select one for campus-wide implementation
> Fall 2008 -- begin pilot program for selected sites, includes training
> Spring 2009 -- announce campus roll out plan, begin training sessions
> 
> Additional information about the project can be found online at 
> http://www.uc.appstate.edu/web/cms. If you have any questions, please 
> contact Ann Kiefert, committee chair, at 262-3147 or kiefertat@...
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Monday 19 May 2008 16:19, Chris Calloway wrote:
>> Triangle (NC) Zope and Python Users Group (TriZPUG) is proud to open
>> registration for our fourth annual ultra-low cost Plone and Python training
>> camps, BootCampArama 2008:
>>
>> http://trizpug.org/boot-camp/2008/
>>
>> Registration is now open for:
>>
>> PyCamp: Python Boot Camp, August 4 - 8
>>
>> Plone Boot Camp: Customizing Plone, July 28 - August 1
>>
>> Advanced Plone Boot Camp: Plone 3 Techniques, August 4 - 8
>>
>> All of these take place on the campus of the University of North Carolina
>> at Chapel Hill in state of the art high tech classrooms, with free mass
>> transit, low-cost accommodations with free wireless, and convenient dining
>> options.
>>
>> Plone Boot Camp is taught by Joel Burton, twice chair of the Plone
>> Foundation. Joel has logged more the 200 days at the head of Plone
>> classrooms on four continents. See plonebootcamps.com for dozens of
>> testimonials from Joel's students.
>>
>> PyCamp is taught by Chris Calloway, facilitator for TriZPUG and application
>> analyst for the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing System. Chris has
>> developed PyCamp for over 1500 hours on behalf of Python user groups. Early
>> bird registration runs through June 30. So register today!
>>
>> PyCamp is TriZPUG's Python Boot Camp, which takes a programmer familiar
>> with basic programming concepts to the status of Python developer with one
>> week of training. If you have previous scripting or programming experience
>> and want to step into Python programming as quickly and painlessly as
>> possible, this boot camp is for you. PyCamp is also the perfect follow-on
>> to Plone Boot Camp: Customizing Plone the previous week.
>>
>> At Plone Boot Camp: Customizing Plone you will learn the essentials you
>> need to build your Plone site and deploy it. This course is the most
>> popular in the Plone world--for a good reason: it teaches you practical
>> skills in a friendly, hands-on format. This bootcamp is aimed at: * people
>> with HTML or web design experience
>>     * people with some or no Python experience
>>     * people with some or no Zope/Plone experience
>> It covers using Plone, customizing, and deploying Plone sites.
>>
>> At Advanced Plone Boot Camp: Plone 3 Techniques you will learn to build a
>> site using the best practices of Plone 3 as well as advance your skills in
>> scripting and developing for Plone. The course covers the new technologies
>> in Plone 3.0 and 3.1 intended for site integrators and developers: our new
>> portlet infrastructure, viewlets, versioning, and a friendly introduction
>> to Zope 3 component architecture. Now, updated for Plone 3.1! The course is
>> intended for people who have experience with the basics of Plone site
>> development and HTML/CSS. It will cover what you need to know to take
>> advantage of these new technologies in Plone 3.
>>
>> For more information contact: info@...
> 

ANN: contribute to Plone4ArtistsCalendar 1.1 development efforts

Thanks to the following contributors, we have raised $600 in funding
towards the development of Plone4ArtistsCalendar 1.1 which brings
enhanced event calendars to Plone 3.0. Thank you!!!
http://micropledge.com/projects/plone4artistscalendar

- Alexander Pilz, Syslab ($500)
- Sisi Nutt ($50)
- Graham Perrin ($25)
- jchamm ($25)

But we're not done yet. Our goal is to raise $2,000 which will make it
possible to finance the development efforts of finalizing the 1.1
release of Plone4ArtistsCalendar. Will you help us raise the remaining
$1,400?

Please show your support and pledge a financial contribution. Any
amount helps!

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PLEDGE here --> http://micropledge.com/projects/plone4artistscalendar

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You are invited to visit the Plone4Artists website where you can read 
more about Plone4ArtistsCalendar and download the 1.1b1 beta version of 
the software which works on Plone 3.0. 
http://plone4artists.org/products/plone4artistscalendar

If you try out the software, please report any bugs/issues that you 
encounter to the issue tracker. This will help us to make a better 1.1 
final. http://plone4artists.org/products/plone4artistscalendar/issues

If you don't have time to download and evaluate the software, you can 
see a short screencast which shows how the product works:
http://plone.tv/media/1838007390

thanks in advance for your generous contribution to make this product 
possible.

Regards,
Nate Aune (founder of the Plone4Artists project)

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Re: [Educational] Buildout for a educational Plone site

Hola Nate,

--On 22. Dezember 2007 14:48:01 -0600 Nate Aune <natea@...> wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> Thanks for taking the initiative to create a buildout. However, I'm
> not sure about some of the products that you've chosen to include.

The bundle contains staff that I am using for deployment to my educational
customers. I am working successfully with several institutions in this 
field...from chairs to institutes to universities).

>
># ATSchemaExtender
>
> This one is particularly nasty because it wipes out the entire
> Archetypes directory that comes with stock Plone, and replaces it with
> another one. I'm concerned about migration issues, if someone wants to
> remove the product. Now they have to try to recover the original
> Archetypes directory?

This was a culprit of the old FSD version (which is now using 
at.schemaextender)

>
># TextIndexNG 3.2.1
>
> Doesn't Plone3 already provide for full-text searching of Word/PDF
> docs?  It seems like adding another dependency such as TXNG3 is
> unnecessary when Plone3 has this out-of-the-box.
> I realize that TXNG3 has a lot of other advanced functionality, but
> I'm guessing that for most educational institutions, these are not
> must-have features.

A common requirement are multi-lingual websites...and Plone does not 
support
language-dependent indexing of Plone content (together with LP).

>
># FileSystemStorage (enabled for File type)
>
> While FSS is an excellent product, I would be wary of promoting this
> product when a future version of Plone is expected to use Zope's
> built-in blob support in the form of plone.app.blob. If universities
> start using FSS, there could be significant cost in migrating to
> another external file solution.

Right now we have no official Plone solution with blob support and
no official released Zope version with blob support. I don't promote
unreleased staff. I promote solutions that are known to work and that
were reliable in former projects. This conservative strategy is much better
than using cutting-edge software - especially stuff that is not integrated 
into the Plone core so far. In addition using non-Plone-core add-ons were 
always a PITA during migrations. If plone.app.blob becomes more mature and 
if it should go into the Plone core, let's use it...but for now I consider 
it risk deploying Plone sites on unofficial core extensions (especially it 
seems to require a special Zope 2.10 version with blob support). The 
experience (especially the migration experience from some universities 
using Plone 2.X so far) tells us: not staying mainstream -> big migration 
fun (or call it pain).

>
># ZWiki 0.6
>
> Again, ZWiki is an excellent product, but Plone 3 now provides a very
> capable Wiki solution in the form of wicked. This is likely to be
> sufficient for most universities needs.

No. Especially when you work with people with a scientific background they 
usually work with ZWiki and extensions like LaTeXWiki.

> I think we want to be careful
> about confusing people with too many choices. Let them try out the
> built-in wiki that comes with Plone 3 first, and then if they find
> it's not sufficient, they can always upgrade later to ZWiki.

As with TXNG: it's optional.

>
># FCKEditor 2.4.6
>
> I'm sure FCKEditor has some distinct advantages over Kupu, but why
> replace the default editor with another one, when most universities
> are going to get along just fine with Kupu? Kupu is also more tightly
> integrated with Plone, whereas with FCKEditor, there will be features
> that are missing that Kupu already provides. Why confuse the users
> with yet another choice?

No single customer  is actually  happy with Kupu. FCKeditor works fine with 
Plone 3 and there is no functionality missing. FCKEditor just works and the 
site administrator and the user has the freedom to choose either Kupu or 
FCKeditor. You argue: don't confuse users with multiple editors, I argue: 
don't distract users with a toy editor. If you like Kupu, take it. Most 
professional Plone users don't like Kupu.

>
> I guess the point I'm trying to make, is let's make a buildout that
> leverages the existing features of Plone 3, and not add any redundant
> and potentially intrusive products unless they add real immediate
> value for the people who are going to be evaluating the product.
>

Sorry but I have to disagree. The buildout contains software that is 
actually used successfully in educational deployments.

> Sure, some power users will prefer TXNG3 over Plone's default
> full-text indexing, and some will prefer ZWiki over wicked, and some
> will prefer FCKEditor over Kupu, but why include all of these  in a
> "base" distribution of Plone?

See above. The quick installer give the administrator the choice what
to install.

>
> I could see these add-ons being included in a "advanced / power user"
> edition, but I think for now, the focus should be on letting people
> try out Plone as it comes out-of-the-box, with add-ons that don't try
> to replace existing functionality, but augment or enhance the core CMS
> with features suitable for an educational institution, such as
> FacultyStaffDirectory, CMFBibliographyAT and PloneFormGen. None of
> these products have many dependencies, and can be uninstalled without
> any consequences.

Sorry Nate but I am not working on trialware  This is about doing
professional software for professional customers and most universities
or related institutions are not interested in trialware...they want working 
solutions 

>
> While I can completely understand your desire to promote your own
> products (and they are indeed excellent products),

Huh? Except TXNG there no other product from my side. So there is
nothing about promotion.

> I think we should
> weigh that against the needs of the greater educational community.

I have contacts to most German universities and related institutions that 
work with Plone and some of them are customers of mine. So I am aware of 
their needs  In addition we have contacts to universities through the
German Zope User Group (DZUG) which has a special committee to deal with 
universities using Zope and their needs. I doubt that the needs of
other universities are much different.

Happy Xmas,
Andreas

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Buildout for a educational Plone site

Hi,

I've created a buildout configuration for Plone 3:

<http://www.plone4universities.org/Members/ajungtest/buildout.cfg>

This will create a standard Plone 3 buildout plus some additional products 
like CMFBibAT, FileSystemStorage, FacultyStaffDirectory, Reflecto, 
FCKEditor and TextIndexNG3 and some more. In addition it provides support 
for storing files directly on the filesystem instead of using the ZODB 
(using FileSystemStorage).

How to use it:

 - download the buildout.cfg
 - run 'buildout'

That's it.

Better documentation and better visibility on the plone4uni website will 
follow soon.

Andreas

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CalendarX Sprint

Sorry for crossposting but at Smeal College of Business we are gearing 
up to migrate to Plone 3 and the largest stumbling block we see is the 
CalendarX incompatibility. We have planned a patch sprint to get 
CalendarX working in Plone 3.

I am first of all extending an invitation to Lupa Zurven to participate 
or at least receive his blessing in our endeavor.

I am extending this invitation to anyone who is currently using or 
looking to use CalendarX in the near future. This is a stop-gap solution 
for those who would like to move to Plone 3 while a more Plone 3-centric 
solution can be developed. SVN and IRC will be used for those who can't 
attend in person but want to participate - details to follow.

We would like to release the patched product to the community with 
permission/blessing from the product owners.

Thank you,

Guy Heckman

Sprint Details:

    When: Tuesday, December 11th starting at 8:30 am (EST)

    Where: 11 Business Building (corner of Park Avenue & Shortlidge
    Road), University Park, PA 16802 (located on Penn State's main campus)

Contact Information for questions or comments:

    Guy Heckman
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Re[Educational] -connecting Gmane to the educational mailing list

It appears that the link between the two was broken earlier this year.  I'd
prefer the newgroup style feed that comes from Gmane.  What would it take to
get them hooked back up again?

Thanks,
Calvin
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[Educational] Plone4Edu IRC Channel

Greetings,

KurtB has taken the initiative to set up a plone4edu IRC channel on 
freenet.  Stop on by and chat with folks about our new group!

irc://irc.freenode.net/plone4edu

C

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[Educational] Re: Plone4Edu

If I have a vote, I also support the warm, fuzzy, and inclusive plone4edu.

C

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Department of Radiology Web Services
University of Washington
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[Educational] Re: Problem registering on plone4universities

Rui,

Thanks for replying.  As i stated in the body of my message, I attempted 
to use the email address from which this message (and the previous) was 
sent.  That address is 'cewing <at> u.washington.edu'.  I can certainly 
register under a different address, but that would be decidedly 
inconvenient, as this is the email address I use for work-related 
messages, and the interaction I'd have with this site will definitely be 
work-related.  Is there anything that can be done to expand the validator 
for the email address field so that it includes email addresses such as 
mine?

Thanks

Cris

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