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Archive for the “English Posts” category

Nominate yourself for the DataPortability Project Steering Group!

by Christian Scholz on November 20, 2009

The end of 2009 is quickly approaching and this means that election time is coming up. The Steering Group of the DataPortability Project (DPP) is going to be elected and you can nominate yourself. If you think you can help (…)

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Data Without Borders is back: The Internet Identity Workshop

by Christian Scholz on November 10, 2009

It took a while before we restarted our podcast “Data Without Borders” but we are back on track with the third episode after the break where we talk about what happened at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) which happened last (…)

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Malthe about “Otto” (Plone Conference 2009 Open Space Session)

by Christian Scholz on October 30, 2009

Malthe Borch organized a session about “Otto”, his and Jeroen’s approach to make Python Web Framework programming fun again mainly be reinventing the wheel. But give it a listen yourself: (Download MP3) (It started by Malthe explaining that repoze.bfg was (…)

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Georg Greve’s Keynote at the Plone Conference 2009

by Christian Scholz on October 30, 2009

Georg Greve from the Free Software Foundation Europe was talking about decision making. He started explaining how he moved from being a software developer to being a politician. He takes the relicensing policy as an example and wonders how we (…)

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Content Types with Dexterity (Plone Conference 2009)

by Christian Scholz on October 29, 2009

David Glick is introducing Dexterity to us, the new way of doing content types in Plone. It is aimed at non-developers and developers. What is a content type? A way to categorize the items in your site It has a (…)

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Lightning Talk: Godefroid Chapelle about buildout

by Christian Scholz on October 28, 2009

What’s new in the latest release of zc.buildout? Extension build by gocept, you can use buildout really offline. It tells you if you cannot download something in offline mode but still uses download-caches etc. if you configure it. “annotate” command (…)

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unloading plone – approaching scalability (Plone conference 2009)

by Christian Scholz on October 28, 2009

Elizabeth Leddy is talking about scalability issues with Plone and how to approach scalability: Tools, Tips and techniques for making Plone scale. This talk is not about just installing something like CacheFu, it’s more about specialized situations where you cannot (…)

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Lessons learned from other frameworks (Plone Conference 2009)

by Christian Scholz on October 28, 2009

Wichert Akkerman was talking about lessons he learned from other frameworks. He once was looking at other frameworks and thistalk is about a view for developers. First of all: Plone is an application, not a framework but still we build (…)

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KARL: knowledge management & collaboration for NGOs (Plone Conference 2009)

by Christian Scholz on October 28, 2009

Tom Moroz, Chris Rossi and Calvin Hendryx-Parker have been talking about KARL. Tom Moroz of the Open Society Institute (OSI) starts on a bit of background on what KARL is. OSI has 7 ‘core’ offices in US and Europe. It (…)

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Plone Conference Live Streams

by Christian Scholz on October 28, 2009

As the site is down, here are the streams: Main Hall Live TV : Ustream Eötvös Room Live video chat by Ustream Than Room Live video chat by Ustream Ortvay Room Streaming .TV shows by Ustream Link Main Hall Eötvös (…)

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