Day 1 - Lightning Talks

Last minutes of the day

Special Announcements

Nature Conservancy Announcement

  • Announcing Conserve Online
  • Workers
    • Rick Minor
    • Sally Kleinfeldt
    • etc
  • Neutral forum where conservationists around the world can work together
    • Work spaces
    • Discussions
    • Calendars
    • Security
  • Publishing
    • provides Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
    • Clearing house
    • Collective
    • Collaborative
  • Get it!

Lightning Talks

Here we go

KaizenPlone

  • Way too many options in Plone

  • Works well for Plone experts, not for others

  • Its a FAQ

    • Page per problem
    • Paragraph per solution
    • Names underneath to vote
    • Sort of like Stack Overflow
  • Not out yet

atomising by Tarek Zaide

  • Fetches RSS feed and sticks into a Sqlite3 database
  • Managed via simple configuration file

Cluemapper by Nate Aune

  • Trac causes pain

  • Cluemapper

    • Project management tool
    • Extension to Trac
    • Personal dashboard
    • easily create new projects
    • Hour management
    • Pretty mockups
  • Cluemapper tech

    • Dojo AJAX framework
    • WSGI
  • Timetracking rocks!

    • Handles hours
    • pretty graphs
    • collates
  • Should replace the crap that is STACR

  • cluemapper.org

  • cluemapper.blit.tv

PyPI Replication Project

  • Buildouts for Zope highly depend on PyPI

  • PyPI is a single point of falie (SPOF)

  • Need to replicate PyPI

  • z3c.pypimirror

  • Allows you to mirror PyPI on your local machine

  • About 5 GB disk space, 150 GB traffic per month

  • Phase 1

    • About to go live in November 2008
  • Phase 2

    • Refactored
    • Auto-mirror selection in buildout!
  • https://launchpad.net/pypi-mirror

Proposed improvements by Calvin Hendryx-Parker

  • Make any folder a root plone site!
  • Do so by adding a single interface!
  • Answers ways to install 300-400 Plone sites
  • Get buildout quick reference card
  • Plugged for November buildout class thingee

Net Site Lightning Talk

  • Minor CSS tweaks to make editing more close to the final results
  • Wrote a more elegant, useful Plone edit toolbar system