2003

Q1 Status Update

Tons of activity in the Zope, CMF, and Plone communities. This is a status update for the first quarter of 2003.

ArchGenXML 1.0ß released

We are pleased to announce the first Beta Release of ArchGenXML.

Austrian Ministry recommends Plone for Schools and Universities

The Austrian Ministry for Education recommends Plone for all High-End CMS Solutions at Schools or Universities.

Plone 1.0 RC2 installer for Mac OS X

Mac OS X users: an up to date installer for Plone 1.0 RC2 is now available on the download page.

plone.org back up

IBM Death^H^H^Hsk-star harddrive crashes and plone.org takes a tumble

Plone Seminar, Apr 29, Paris

Come to the first ever Plone Seminar Day, Paris.

Plone Talk, Austria, April 9th

Alexander Limi is currently staying in Alberschwende to assist in designing the new Leader+ platform, which is moving to Plone. Leader+ is an initiative supporting rural regions and is financed by the European Union.

First release of PloneAddressBook

Check it out

Free CMS Sites for Non Profits

eGenius, zDev Corporation, the Zope and Plone communities are collaboratingin building 12 free powerful Plone CMS sites over 12 months for non-profitorganizations in early formation, is international, and with broad reach.

PortalTransforms 1.0a1 released !

I'm pleased to announce the first alpha release of the PortalTransforms Zope product. It provides two new CMF tools in order tomake MIME types based transformations on the portal contents and so aneasy to way to plugin some new transformations for previouslyunsupported content types. You will find more info in the package'sREADME and docs directory.This product is part of the Archetypes project, but the onlyrequirement to use it is to have a CMF based site. If you are usingArchetypes, this package replaces the transform package.

Education Sprint in Paderborn has started

the first day of the educational sprint is almost over. teams are working on bibliographies, new workflows, keyword management, placeless content and much more...

Connexions Project moves to Plone

The Connexions Project, an effort at Rice University to provide freely available educational content and the collaborative tools to make that possible, is now running Plone.

Swiss power station KWO launches Plone-based website

The Kraftwerke Oberhasli KWO, one of the biggest Swiss power stations, has relaunched a new web site based on the content and collaboration system Plone.

Plone Bug Day for 2.0

Come help get Plone 2.0 ready for release and squash some bugs on the 24th of October.

Free Zope and Plone hosting on objectis.org

Pilot Systems and Blue Dynamics are happy to introduce their new Zope and Plone hosting service available in English and French at the moment on objectis.org web site.

Zope and Plone at Linux Day in Italy

During the Linux Day 2003 (29 November) in Italy there will be a Zope and Plone presentations in more than 10 cities!

Snow Sprint 2004

solution2u.net has organized a Sprint in the mountains of Austria. There is sure to be a lot of snow for skiing.

Department of Statistics of the Canton Basel-Stadt sets new record in content publishing

In only three working days, the team of Peter Schwendener, Head of the Statistical Department of the Canton Basel-Stadt, published over 200 pages of statistical data using the Plone CMS. The site shows the results of a bi-annual questionnaire where the citizens of Basel answer questions about e.g. the living standards and the social environment of their city. Detailed results of the over 300 charts, documents, and tables provide a rich overview of Basel and its development.

Linux.co.uk moves to Plone

Linux.co.uk has been running for quite some time on a commercial product called zExtranet.

GRUF 2.0Beta2 is out

The 2.0Beta2 version of GRUF is out ! It fixes some annoying bugs and is the next GRUF step before Plone 2.0 is out.

Open Letter to the Community

This is an Open Letter adressed to the Community and to Zope Corporation and the decisionmakers in the New Zope.Org project. My name is Robert Boulanger, and I'm CEO and co-founder of BlueDynamics GmbH.

PortalTransforms 1.0 final released

I'm pleased to announce the 1.0 final release of the PortalTransforms Zope product. It provides two new CMF tools in order tomake MIME types based transformations on the portal contents and so aneasy to way to plugin some new transformations for previouslyunsupported content types.