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‘I know the good reasoning behind the time-based releases, but have they really worked out?…’ - ChrisW

Developers in length discuss pro and cons of time-based releases and code deprecation, read up on current trends… ([Zope-dev] Time-based releases a good idea?).

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ZF(ZopeFoundation) updates and document repositories:

• [ZF] Zope Foundation Membership and Board basic information
• Zope.org - Foundation: legal documents, committer and membership agreements, by laws

Releases

• CMF-1.6.1 - The 1.6.1 release represents a bug fix/maintenance release without notable feature additions. It forms the basis for the upcoming Plone 2.5 release.
• lxml 1.0.1 - lxml is a Pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. It provides safe and convenient access to these libraries using the ElementTree API

Sprints, Conference News & Press Announcements

Python GoogleSprint August 21-24, 2006 in Googles NYC and MTV offices

Useful Links

• WhatIsNewInZope33 - Baiju M is growing a Whats New in Z3.3 document
• Python Cheese Shop: wsgiref 0.1 - This is a standalone release of the wsgiref library to be included in Python 2.5.
• The future of HTML, Part 1: : WHATWG - Web Applications 1.0 (HTML5) and Web Forms 2.0
• The future of HTML, Part 2: XHTML 2.0 - W3C activities: XHTML, Rich Client

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‘However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.’ - John Perry on Structured Procrastination, April 1995

Releases

• Zope 2.8.7
• Five release fest: Five 1.2.5, 1.3.6, 1.4 and 1.5c released!
• Twisted 2.4.0 - including updates to Words, Web, Names, Mail, Conch, and more

Sprints, Conference News & Press Announcements

EuroPython2006/Zope3Sprint July 2006, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Plone Bootcamp Trainings July 10-14, 2006 in Portland, Oregon

Vancouver Python Workshop August 4-6, 2006 in Vancouver, Canada

Useful Links

• zope-cookbook.org - Understanding events - Zope3 Event programming through the Observer design pattern
• del.icio.us/tag/zope3-site - zope3 based sites collected on del.icio.us
• Python Bibliotheca Zope 3 learning resources page
• PythonInfo Wiki - SummerOfCode - the Google “Summer of Code” 2006 projects involving Python and mentored by the Python Software Foundation (PSF)
• Guide to Python introspection
• Looking for Memories of Python Old-Timers: Guido van Rossum writing a paper on Python for the ACM History Of Programming Languages conference
• Historical Python Sources
• Online Book: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python
• Beautiful Code - a DeCal python course offered in the Spring 2003 semester
• CS9H Online Study Guide - python online course
• EasyExtend is a constructive approach to extend the Python language using pure Python
• pyjamas is a Python port of Google Web Tookit
• RDFa Primer 1.0 - Embedding RDF in XHTML

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