From cbc at unc.edu  Tue Jul  1 20:45:33 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:45:33 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Plone Conference Registration Now Open
Message-ID: <486A7B4D.5070007@unc.edu>

http://ploneconf2008.eventbrite.com/

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From josh_johnson at unc.edu  Wed Jul  2 17:10:14 2008
From: josh_johnson at unc.edu (Josh Johnson)
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:10:14 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Plone Jam TONIGHT + Could someone give me a ride?
Message-ID: <486B9A56.6000205@unc.edu>

Friendly reminder that tonight is another installment of the always fun 
Plone Jam. If you're unfamiliar with the concept, it's sort of a loose 
gathering of people doing whatever, but usually plone-related stuff, 
usually collaborating but not always. :)

For example, tonight I plan to work on fixing a bug in 
plone.app.contentrules that bit me last week.. somebody might help me, I 
might help somebody else, or nobody will help anybody, but it's all good.

Details: http://trizpug.org/Members/biggers/plone-jam-2008-07-02-weds

In other news, I need a ride. Anybody going to the Jam tonight from the 
Chapel Hill area? Would you mind bringing me along?

Thanks!
JJ


From cbc at unc.edu  Fri Jul 11 15:42:36 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:42:36 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] [Fwd: [ploneconf2008-planning] Reminder: Session
	proposals due soon]
Message-ID: <4877634C.9050305@unc.edu>

Plone Conference session proposals... get 'em in now. See below.

Also, register now for Plone Conference. The ZPUGDC organizers need to 
meet their minimum registration milestone deadlines. We are the closest 
sister ZPUG to them and need to do our part to help. See below

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [ploneconf2008-planning] Reminder: Session proposals due soon
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:26:27 -0400
From: Matt Bowen <mrbowen at gmail.com>
To: plone-users at lists.sourceforge.net, 
plone-developers at lists.sourceforge.net
CC: plone-conference-2008-dc-planning-discussion at lists.openplans.org

Hi Ploneistas,

This is a friendly reminder that session proposals are due Monday,
July 21, 2008 at 12:00am EDT. There are still spots left, but they're
going quickly, so be sure to get your proposal in soon.

In a matter of minutes, you can submit a proposal here:
http://tinyurl.com/48q3hu

For those of you who aren't submitting proposals, remember that
registration is open, and the early-bird discount is currently
available: http://ploneconf2008.eventbrite.com/

By submitting a proposal, you get the chance to share what you know
with the community, to give back to Plone, and to get a discount on
your conference ticket.

If you're looking for an extra edge to help your proposal, we're
especially interested in these topics (although if you have a good
idea that's not on this list, by all means, send it!):

* Real life migration stories from some prior version of Plone to Plone 3
* Using the current tools well: Developing with Archetypes
* How does Plone stack up to the competition?
* How to deploy a well-performing, stable Plone site
* How to make Plone downright fast
* The most important Plone features you probably don't use (and don't
need to have written)
* E-Commerce on Plone
* Plone and multimedia
* Case studies that highlight Plone's strengths (and informative ones
where you learned about the weakness, too)
* The great product you've developed or insights you've gained as
you've used plone

We also are looking for panels. If you are interested in organizing
one but are fuzzy on who to talk to or need help developing a topic,
feel free to email me directly.

We look forward to seeing you all at the conference.

Best,
The Plone Conference 2008 Programming Team


From chris at christophermrossi.com  Fri Jul 11 22:28:26 2008
From: chris at christophermrossi.com (Chris Rossi)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:28:26 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Plone Hosting
Message-ID: <4877C26A.1000506@christophermrossi.com>

Hello gang, I'm back in the Zope/Plone world after three years off doing 
Java web applications for clinical data management.  I'm trying my hand 
at freelance now, so we'll see how it goes.

I have a potential customer with a small, fairly low traffic site that 
may be interested in a CMS and I would like to pitch Plone.  What I need 
to figure out is where they can host it if they do go for Plone.  I 
figure my two choices are:

 1) Hosting with a company that specializes in Zope/Plone hosting,
 2) Setting up a virtual server account with someone like Dreamhost and 
running it in a virtual server

Who has direct experience with either of these options and would like to 
share?  Any particular recommendations?  Who's good?

Thanks all!
Chris
--
http://christophermrossi.com


From bendonnelly at gmail.com  Fri Jul 11 22:40:31 2008
From: bendonnelly at gmail.com (Ben Donnelly)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:40:31 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Plone Hosting
In-Reply-To: <4877C26A.1000506@christophermrossi.com>
References: <4877C26A.1000506@christophermrossi.com>
Message-ID: <f43e5d7b0807111340i3532fe64h8e3cf8c97cb37f64@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Chris-

Dreamhost doesn't allow plone on virtual accounts: too systems
intensive. At least that was the case a few years ago. I did get it to
compile and run, before running across documentation that said it
wasn't supported/allowed. As a middleground solution, you could get a
dedicated server account, do the install yourself, and spin off little
plone sites within that zope service pretty quickly and easily. If you
figure to be pitching Plone pretty frequently, I go that route.

- Bendy

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Chris Rossi
<chris at christophermrossi.com> wrote:
> Hello gang, I'm back in the Zope/Plone world after three years off doing
> Java web applications for clinical data management.  I'm trying my hand at
> freelance now, so we'll see how it goes.
>
> I have a potential customer with a small, fairly low traffic site that may
> be interested in a CMS and I would like to pitch Plone.  What I need to
> figure out is where they can host it if they do go for Plone.  I figure my
> two choices are:
>
> 1) Hosting with a company that specializes in Zope/Plone hosting,
> 2) Setting up a virtual server account with someone like Dreamhost and
> running it in a virtual server
>
> Who has direct experience with either of these options and would like to
> share?  Any particular recommendations?  Who's good?
>
> Thanks all!
> Chris
> --
> http://christophermrossi.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>

From chris at christophermrossi.com  Fri Jul 11 23:45:30 2008
From: chris at christophermrossi.com (Chris Rossi)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:45:30 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Plone Hosting
In-Reply-To: <f43e5d7b0807111340i3532fe64h8e3cf8c97cb37f64@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4877C26A.1000506@christophermrossi.com>
	<f43e5d7b0807111340i3532fe64h8e3cf8c97cb37f64@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4877D47A.1030101@christophermrossi.com>

Hi Ben, have you seen this?

http://www.dreamhostps.com/

They may not have had this last you looked.  I'm still on a regular 
shared server plan but I could conceivably switch to that any time and 
run anything I want.

chris


Ben Donnelly wrote:
> Hi Chris-
>
> Dreamhost doesn't allow plone on virtual accounts: too systems
> intensive. At least that was the case a few years ago. I did get it to
> compile and run, before running across documentation that said it
> wasn't supported/allowed. As a middleground solution, you could get a
> dedicated server account, do the install yourself, and spin off little
> plone sites within that zope service pretty quickly and easily. If you
> figure to be pitching Plone pretty frequently, I go that route.
>
> - Bendy
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Chris Rossi
> <chris at christophermrossi.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hello gang, I'm back in the Zope/Plone world after three years off doing
>> Java web applications for clinical data management.  I'm trying my hand at
>> freelance now, so we'll see how it goes.
>>
>> I have a potential customer with a small, fairly low traffic site that may
>> be interested in a CMS and I would like to pitch Plone.  What I need to
>> figure out is where they can host it if they do go for Plone.  I figure my
>> two choices are:
>>
>> 1) Hosting with a company that specializes in Zope/Plone hosting,
>> 2) Setting up a virtual server account with someone like Dreamhost and
>> running it in a virtual server
>>
>> Who has direct experience with either of these options and would like to
>> share?  Any particular recommendations?  Who's good?
>>
>> Thanks all!
>> Chris
>> --
>> http://christophermrossi.com
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> TriZPUG mailing list
>> TriZPUG at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
>> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>>
>>     
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>   


From bendonnelly at gmail.com  Sat Jul 12 00:13:46 2008
From: bendonnelly at gmail.com (Ben Donnelly)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:13:46 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Plone Hosting
In-Reply-To: <4877D47A.1030101@christophermrossi.com>
References: <4877C26A.1000506@christophermrossi.com>
	<f43e5d7b0807111340i3532fe64h8e3cf8c97cb37f64@mail.gmail.com>
	<4877D47A.1030101@christophermrossi.com>
Message-ID: <f43e5d7b0807111513q3c307634t88787ef20cf077d@mail.gmail.com>

That looks really cool- didn't know about it!

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Chris Rossi
<chris at christophermrossi.com> wrote:
> Hi Ben, have you seen this?
>
> http://www.dreamhostps.com/
>
> They may not have had this last you looked.  I'm still on a regular shared
> server plan but I could conceivably switch to that any time and run anything
> I want.
>
> chris
>
>
> Ben Donnelly wrote:
>>
>> Hi Chris-
>>
>> Dreamhost doesn't allow plone on virtual accounts: too systems
>> intensive. At least that was the case a few years ago. I did get it to
>> compile and run, before running across documentation that said it
>> wasn't supported/allowed. As a middleground solution, you could get a
>> dedicated server account, do the install yourself, and spin off little
>> plone sites within that zope service pretty quickly and easily. If you
>> figure to be pitching Plone pretty frequently, I go that route.
>>
>> - Bendy
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Chris Rossi
>> <chris at christophermrossi.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello gang, I'm back in the Zope/Plone world after three years off doing
>>> Java web applications for clinical data management.  I'm trying my hand
>>> at
>>> freelance now, so we'll see how it goes.
>>>
>>> I have a potential customer with a small, fairly low traffic site that
>>> may
>>> be interested in a CMS and I would like to pitch Plone.  What I need to
>>> figure out is where they can host it if they do go for Plone.  I figure
>>> my
>>> two choices are:
>>>
>>> 1) Hosting with a company that specializes in Zope/Plone hosting,
>>> 2) Setting up a virtual server account with someone like Dreamhost and
>>> running it in a virtual server
>>>
>>> Who has direct experience with either of these options and would like to
>>> share?  Any particular recommendations?  Who's good?
>>>
>>> Thanks all!
>>> Chris
>>> --
>>> http://christophermrossi.com
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> TriZPUG mailing list
>>> TriZPUG at python.org
>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
>>> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>>>
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> TriZPUG mailing list
>> TriZPUG at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
>> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
>

From david at handysoftware.com  Sat Jul 12 00:13:42 2008
From: david at handysoftware.com (David Handy)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:13:42 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Plone Hosting
In-Reply-To: <4877D47A.1030101@christophermrossi.com>
References: <4877C26A.1000506@christophermrossi.com>
	<f43e5d7b0807111340i3532fe64h8e3cf8c97cb37f64@mail.gmail.com>
	<4877D47A.1030101@christophermrossi.com>
Message-ID: <20080711221342.GA29450@arno2>

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 05:45:30PM -0400, Chris Rossi wrote:
> Hi Ben, have you seen this?
>
> http://www.dreamhostps.com/
>

I'm in the process of moving my website to Datarealm's virtual hosting
service (http://www.virtual-dedicated.net/) Depending on how much RAM and
disk space you need, it can be a real deal.  I'm trying their lowest end,
64MB RAM, $4.95/month service, since I just have static web pages and cgi
scripts at the moment. Their $20/month option gets you 256MB RAM; is that
enough to run Plone?

I've used Datarealm/Rackmounted.com for dedicated hosting for our regional
homeschooling association, with good results.

David H


-- 
David Handy
Computer Programming is Fun!
Beginning Computer Programming with Python
http://www.handysoftware.com/cpif/

From stephan_altmueller at unc.edu  Sat Jul 12 03:35:47 2008
From: stephan_altmueller at unc.edu (Stephan Altmueller)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:35:47 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Plone Hosting
In-Reply-To: <4877C26A.1000506@christophermrossi.com>
References: <4877C26A.1000506@christophermrossi.com>
Message-ID: <48780A73.7090300@unc.edu>

I have tried a number of different VPS's and I have finally landed at 
slicehost. (www.slicehost.com).
The management app they have have built is amazing. You can add and 
resize slices (that's what
they call their VPS's) through an amazing simple interface. They offer a 
number of different
Linux distributions, I went with

They start at $20 for 256MB. I would go for the 512MB slice ($38) which 
easily hold
a couple small Plone sites in a single zope instance. I use nginx 
instead of Apache to keep the
overhead low.

Hope this helps.

 --  Stephan



Chris Rossi wrote:
> Hello gang, I'm back in the Zope/Plone world after three years off 
> doing Java web applications for clinical data management.  I'm trying 
> my hand at freelance now, so we'll see how it goes.
>
> I have a potential customer with a small, fairly low traffic site that 
> may be interested in a CMS and I would like to pitch Plone.  What I 
> need to figure out is where they can host it if they do go for Plone.  
> I figure my two choices are:
>
> 1) Hosting with a company that specializes in Zope/Plone hosting,
> 2) Setting up a virtual server account with someone like Dreamhost and 
> running it in a virtual server
>
> Who has direct experience with either of these options and would like 
> to share?  Any particular recommendations?  Who's good?
>
> Thanks all!
> Chris
> -- 
> http://christophermrossi.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group


-- 
-- 
--------------------------------------------------------
Stephan Altmueller
Applications Analyst
OASIS - Office of Arts and Sciences Information Services
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Phone: 919-962-4205
Email: stephan_altmueller at unc.edu


From robert at geigers.net  Sat Jul 12 05:53:29 2008
From: robert at geigers.net (Robert Geiger)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:53:29 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Plone Hosting
In-Reply-To: <4877C26A.1000506@christophermrossi.com>
References: <4877C26A.1000506@christophermrossi.com>
Message-ID: <48782AB9.80601@geigers.net>

godaddy virtual servers are available with root access on fedora OS.
You can install anything you like.  I've been running plone sites for
several years on them.  They do DNS, email+lists, etc.  You just have to
tweak the Apache configuration and away you go.  Runs like a garden hose
and it's about $40 per month.

Chris Rossi wrote:
> Hello gang, I'm back in the Zope/Plone world after three years off doing
> Java web applications for clinical data management.  I'm trying my hand
> at freelance now, so we'll see how it goes.
> 
> I have a potential customer with a small, fairly low traffic site that
> may be interested in a CMS and I would like to pitch Plone.  What I need
> to figure out is where they can host it if they do go for Plone.  I
> figure my two choices are:
> 
> 1) Hosting with a company that specializes in Zope/Plone hosting,
> 2) Setting up a virtual server account with someone like Dreamhost and
> running it in a virtual server
> 
> Who has direct experience with either of these options and would like to
> share?  Any particular recommendations?  Who's good?
> 
> Thanks all!
> Chris
> -- 
> http://christophermrossi.com
> 
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group
> 

-- 

Robert Geiger
919.271.7132 Mobile
888.476.5230 Fax
http://robert.geigers.net

Have a great day!
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From cbc at unc.edu  Mon Jul 14 15:05:33 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:05:33 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] BootCampArama Final Reminder
Message-ID: <CE4B181A-6FBA-422E-AEEA-1ED44396B7C3@unc.edu>

Final reminder, we're in the last two weeks of open registration for  
PyCamp, Plone Boot Camp, and Advanced Plone Boot Camp:

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 - 7

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, a facilitator for TriZPUG and  
applications 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 3.1intended 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 at trizpug.org

-- 
Sincerely,
Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 

From cbc at unc.edu  Mon Jul 21 21:24:17 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:24:17 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Fwd: PyCon Needs YOU!
References: <20080720032208.6716AE942@mailbackend.panix.com>
Message-ID: <0C1E430B-BD47-4B5C-B148-54917B51B3FB@unc.edu>

FYI...

Begin forwarded message:

> From: pycon at python.org
> Date: July 19, 2008 11:22:08 PM EDT
> To: cbc at unc.edu
> Subject: PyCon Needs YOU!
>
> Dear PyCon attendee,
>
> You are receiving this message because you attended PyCon 2008.  We  
> won't
> be spamming you; in the next few months, you will receive two more
> messages: one to inform you when the proposal submission period will  
> be
> open and another to inform you when PyCon registration will be  
> open.  If
> you want to be removed from future mailings, just reply to this  
> message.
>
> PyCon 2009 will be in Chicago and work is already underway, but we  
> need
> your help.  If you can spare some of your time and energy, there are  
> many
> different opportunities for you to volunteer.
>
> For starters, we can use suggestions for keynote speakers -- just  
> reply
> to this address (or join pycon-organizers).  You could also start
> thinking about possible presentations or tutorials you can do.
>
> To help organize the conference, please join
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-organizers
>
> To help review proposal submissions, choosing the best presentations  
> for
> PyCon, please join
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-pc
>
> To discuss other volunteer opportunities, please join
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-volunteer
>
> You can sign up for specific tasks at
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/Volunteer_Signup
>
> Thank you for your support,
> The PyCon team

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From cbc at unc.edu  Wed Jul 23 17:27:24 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:27:24 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Meeting Thursday - Python Decorators - Boot Camp Plans
Message-ID: <48874DDC.5080907@unc.edu>

I talked to Paul Smith today. He will be hosting us  for a meeting 
tomorrow, Thursday, July 24 at 7pm at at Capstrat, 1201 Edwards Mill 
Road, Suite 102, Raleigh.

http://trizpug.org/Members/psmith/jul-08-mtg/

Please come to this meeting if you intend to help/volunteer with the 
Boot Camps which start next week. We have most bases covered. However, 
we can always use extra hands to spread the load around.

For technical interest, I will be presenting my Python Decorators talk. 
I previously gave this talk to UNCZPUG a couple of years ago. Last week, 
I was honored to be asked to give it to IndyPy, the Indiana Python Users 
Group, and I did. It was the first time they had a meeting with a 
presentation. They meet at a tasty ale house. It was challenging to give 
a presentation with people crowded around my laptop in a noisy pub. But 
we got through it.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From cbc at unc.edu  Wed Jul 23 23:51:13 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:51:13 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] BootCampArama 2008 Information
Message-ID: <4887A7D1.9030004@unc.edu>

Hello,

You are receiving this because you are enrolled in a 2008 TriZPUG 
BootCampArama class (or because you are a member of TriZPUG copied on 
this email). That would be one or more of:

PyCamp
Plone Boot Camp: Theming Plone
Advanced Plone Boot Camp: Plone 3 Techniques

If (and only if) you need to reply, please reply only to the lists for 
the boot camps (or TriZPUG) for which you are enrolled. There are 
separate email lists for each boot camp.

This email is to provide you with some pre-class information and to ask 
you for some information. This email comes to you from a local TriZPUG 
organizer, Chris Calloway. I am helping coordinate hospitality during 
BootCampArama 2008 (as well as instructing PyCamp). That is, 
"coordinate" in TriZPUG-speak means "do."

1) If you expect to have network access during BootCampArama (a 
necessary thing for PyCamp, and probably a nice thing for Plone Boot 
Camps), then you *must* have the *wired* (ethernet) MAC address of the 
laptop you will be using in class registered on the university network 
in advance. No wireless will be provided in the classrooms during 
BootCampArama. You must bring an ethernet cable to class with your laptop.

You were asked for your wired MAC address during your BootCampArama 
registration. But not everybody filled that part in on the registration 
form, or knew it that far in advance, or knew how to find it. Now is the 
time we need to fix that. Take a look at this list of names:

http://www.openplans.org/projects/bootcamparama-2008/delinquent-mac-address-registration

If your name is on that list, please follow the instructions on that 
page by end of business Friday July 25. The people taking care of your 
network registrations are volunteers. Please don't make them sweat too much.

2) If you are flying into the Triangle (RDU Airport) for BootCampArama, 
we (TriZPUG) need to know about it. Please let us know here:

http://www.openplans.org/projects/bootcamparama-2008/flight-board

You can edit table that by accepting the invitation to join the 
bootcamparama-2008 project on openplans.org you should have received 
already.
You don't need to fill in the column for "Volunteer." That will 
hopefully be filled in later.

The reason we want to collect this information is because it is 
expensive ($40 one way) to get a taxi from the airport to the official 
boot camp hotel (and possibly hard to find the hotel). TriZPUG is going 
to do everything it can to pick you up at the airport and bring you to 
the hotel.

This is dependent on a couple of things: a) how many people need a ride, 
and b) how many TriZPUG volunteers we get to make pick ups. TriZPUG will 
make a best effort to pick you up. But in order to do so, we would like 
to know your flight arrival time as early as possible. TriZPUG is having 
a meeting tomorrow night to plan this.

Unless you get a confirmation email from a volunteer or see a volunteer 
name and phone number on the flight board beside your name, do not 
assume you will get a ride from the airport. Assume you will have to 
take a taxi.

You may want to check out the Flight Board to see if there are other 
people arriving at the same time as you and share a cab. If you do take 
a taxi, be sure and tell the driver you want to go the Hampton Inn at 
1740 Fordham Blvd in Chapel Hill. This is because there are two Hampton 
Inns in Chapel Hill and the other one is closer to the airport (but 
farther away from class).

3) TriZPUG will also make an attempt to pick up as many people at the 
Hampton Inn each morning to take to class as possible. This is another 
reason you need to sign up on the Flight Board, so we can see how many 
people to expect.

We have one large van for the first week and a large and small van for 
the second week. We need to see if the van will need more than one trip. 
If you can take the bus, that will help. But expect that the first van 
will leave the Hampton Inn at 8:00 am *sharp* on Monday morning, with a 
possible second trip if there is time.

Some TriZPUGers coming to camp from Durham and Raleigh may also stop by 
the Hampton Inn to pick up out of town campers in their cars. If you are 
coming from out of town and renting a car, please let us know how may 
people you can also carry, if you feel like pitching in.

This is a volunteer community operation to provide extra hospitality to 
boot campers that wasn't promised in your registration. Your happiness 
with your stay is our priority. TriZPUG has normally have provided this 
shuttle service for our annual boot camps. But we've never had as many 
people coming to boot camps before.

4) There will be a free snack and beverage service all day each day 
providing coffee, bottle water, sodas, and various nibbles. 
Unfortunately, food and drink is not allowed in the classroom this year. 
But the snack and beverage service will be just outside the classroom. 
There will be breaks during the class day.

5) There will be people to lead an expedition to the closest campus 
eateries each day. You will be free to go elsewhere if you wish. 
Normally there is one hour for lunch, which is about enough time to walk 
to a fast food joint, order, and come back.

6) Social events are planned during the week after class. Each Monday 
will be a social at the pool hall beside the Hampton Inn. Another social 
event will be announced for each Wednesday here:

http://www.openplans.org/projects/bootcamparama-2008/social-events

After accepting your invitation to join the BootCampArama wiki, you can 
also post your own social outings on that page. This is especially 
encouraged if you are going both weeks and will be here over the weekend.

7) There's a lot of information about places to eat and parking and bus 
routes and the like linked off the front page of the BootCampArama wiki:

http://www.openplans.org/projects/bootcamparama-2008/project-home

8) I'm sure I'll think of some more things to tell you later. But for 
now, welcome to BootCampArama.

9) I sure hope I got all this right.

10) A bunch of project managers are coming to visit me at my job on 
Friday. The more of this MAC address and flight board stuff we can get 
taken care of by the end of tomorrow (Thursday), the better.

11) Any TriZPUGers who want to join the BootCampArama wiki, or help 
manage it, please have at it.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From cbc at unc.edu  Thu Jul 24 18:10:17 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:10:17 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Ride tonight
Message-ID: <4888A969.1040208@unc.edu>

My trunk broke down last night. Is there someone going to the meeting 
tonight from Chapel Hill who can give me a ride? I will get there one 
way or another. But I would prefer to ride with someone from Chapel Hill 
who is already going.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From cbc at unc.edu  Thu Jul 24 20:04:15 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:04:15 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Ride tonight
In-Reply-To: <4888A969.1040208@unc.edu>
References: <4888A969.1040208@unc.edu>
Message-ID: <4888C41F.5040208@unc.edu>

On 7/24/2008 12:10 PM, Chris Calloway wrote:
> My trunk broke down last night. Is there someone going to the meeting 
> tonight from Chapel Hill who can give me a ride? I will get there one 
> way or another. But I would prefer to ride with someone from Chapel Hill 
> who is already going.

Truck now fixed. No ride needed. Will be there under own locomotion.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From FDimauro at unch.unc.edu  Fri Jul 25 15:43:13 2008
From: FDimauro at unch.unc.edu (Dimauro, Frank)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:43:13 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] TriZPUG Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8
In-Reply-To: <mailman.47.1216980060.1270.trizpug@python.org>
References: <mailman.47.1216980060.1270.trizpug@python.org>
Message-ID: <C1749BE8B27F1C4CAB39ABF6D7B1594901A42D4C@msx5.unch.unc.edu>

Chris and all
Just be aware that I (and many others on this list) get a digest of
these emails the day after the original emails are sent so if an urgent
request goes out that is same-day time sensitive, this may not be the
most effective way to do it.
Frank

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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:10:17 -0400
From: Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu>
Subject: [TriZPUG] Ride tonight
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My trunk broke down last night. Is there someone going to the meeting 
tonight from Chapel Hill who can give me a ride? I will get there one 
way or another. But I would prefer to ride with someone from Chapel Hill

who is already going.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599





From cbc at unc.edu  Sat Jul 26 04:26:57 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:26:57 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] New SQLAlchemy Book
Message-ID: <488A8B71.1090403@unc.edu>

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516147/

(Chris Rossi, I'm looking at you. :)

My buddy the Claytron swears by SQLSoup:

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/wiki/SqlSoup

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From cbc at unc.edu  Mon Jul 28 19:39:48 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:39:48 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Social tonight (and next Monday, too)
Message-ID: <F94D4AA1-5F7F-48C2-A2DB-B9327E679038@unc.edu>

Plone Boot Camp will have a social tonight at 6pm at Bailey's Pub and  
Grill (near our usual Hampton Inn location) at 1722 Fordham Blvd in  
Chapel Hill.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=5hW&resnum=0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=%22bailey%27s+pub+and+grill%22&near=Chapel+Hill,+N+Carolina&fb=1&cid=0,0,3539475162684577222&sa=X&oi=local_result&resnum=1&ct=image

Advanced Plone Boot Camp and PyCamp will also have a social hour there  
next Monday at the same time.

All TriZPUGers are invited to come out and meet our guests.

PS - Joel is doing his usual wonderful job of teaching boot camp. It's  
much different this time due to buildout. Also, archetypes will be  
taught first instead of ZPT. Imagine that.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From sgjones at duke.edu  Tue Jul 29 15:56:18 2008
From: sgjones at duke.edu (Susan Gerbeth-Jones)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:56:18 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] contract help to convert from plone 2 to plone 3
Message-ID: <488F2182.5090806@duke.edu>

I am interested in hiring someone to consult and assist us as we migrate 
our plone 2 sites to plone 3.  If interested, please contact me at 
919-452-8914 or sgjones at duke.edu.

Thanks,
Susan G-J

-- 
Susan Gerbeth-Jones Assistant Dean for Information Technology Nicholas 
School of the Environment Box 90227 Duke University Durham, NC 27708 
919-452-8914 fax: 919-684-8741

From cbc at unc.edu  Tue Jul 29 18:00:45 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:00:45 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Fwd: [PyOhio] PyOhio materials
References: <6523e39a0807290627h1cb7dacm5653ac9cdd3310e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <9D2AC4D4-8847-4037-943F-89148AFD29CA@unc.edu>

PyOhio was a big success. I know of people who went to it from both  
Indiana and Michigan. Anyway, here's an email from the awesome  
organizer, Catherine Devlin, who put PyOhio together, about where you  
can find the talk materials from PyOhio.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Catherine Devlin" <catherine.devlin at gmail.com>
> Date: July 29, 2008 9:27:11 AM EDT
> To: pyohio at python.org
> Subject: [PyOhio] PyOhio materials
>
> Hello, PyOhio attendees!  (And would-be attendees...)
>
> As promised, we've begun to gather talk material (slides, code, etc.)
> provided by our speakers onto the "Talks" page:
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyOhio/Talks
> We've placed hyperlinks in or after the title of each talk whose
> author has supplied material.  Three have so far, and hopefully the
> others will follow soon.
>
> But why stop there?  Some lightning talks have attached links to their
> relevant material, too.
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyOhio/LightningTalks
> If you gave a lightning talk, go ahead and put in a link to help your
> audience find out more.  (Or send it to me and I'll attach it.)  In
> fact, if you didn't give a lightning talk but took good notes, why not
> add relevant links yourself?
>
> Photos are up of the "grafitti posters", too:
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyOhio/PosterSession
>
> In short, don't drop that PyOhio bookmark from your favorites just
> because PyOhio 2008 is over.  We'll keep adding links to make the wiki
> a handy reference site for the things we talked about.  Remember, it's
> a wiki, so any and all of you have the power to add material.  (Some
> of the pages are in ReStructured Text format, and some are in default
> MoinMoin format, which can make it a bit confusing; check for a
> #format rst comment at the top when editing the page, and imitate
> whatever linking format you see on it.)
>
> We've gotten several questions about recordings of the proceedings.
> Alas, we did not make recordings.  A dedicated A/V volunteer could
> change that for PyOhio 2009.  Hint!  Hint!  Join
> pyohio-organizers at pyohio.org...
>
> Thanks again for making the first PyOhio a success!
> -- 
> - Catherine
> http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/
> *** PyOhio 2008 * Columbus * July 26, 2008 * pyohio.org ***
> _______________________________________________
> PyOhio mailing list
> PyOhio at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyohio






From mrevoir at gmail.com  Thu Jul 31 14:49:50 2008
From: mrevoir at gmail.com (Mike Revoir)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:49:50 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Fwd: Python Training
In-Reply-To: <6F98D61C2B7E3D45AF03D5FAE902C05601FE523C@bcex01.learnquest.net>
References: <6F98D61C2B7E3D45AF03D5FAE902C05601FE523C@bcex01.learnquest.net>
Message-ID: <f4cf1c730807310549m480b61e6v4d61844b317378fb@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Susan LaShomb <Susan.LaShomb at learnquest.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:59 PM
Subject: Python Training
To: mrevoir at gmail.com


 Dear Mike,



I am contacting you from a corporate IT training company named LearnQuest
located in the Philadelphia area because I saw the TriZPUG boot camp
training on your website.  We have a client that is interested in a private
onsite Python training and we are seeking a resource to assist us.  The
client has asked for:



"We want to discuss a Python course for intermediate/advanced programmers.
The course we want would be aimed at people on our staff who are experienced
C++ or Java programmers, who understand the Python language and syntax, and
who have some experience in Python coding. As one of our senior engineers
expressed it, we would really like to have someone who can impart the
"concepts of Python", teaching people to write "real Python" versus simply
transferring C++ code into Python."



If you or anyone in your organization is interested, please pass this along
to them.  We'll need to know what kind of pricing per day, (instructor rate,
book rate plus travel and expenses), can be offered that would be
competitive for a subcontractor relationship.



Thanks, Mike, and I look forward to hearing from you.



Regards,

Susan



P.S. I welcome you to visit our website at www.learnquest.com for
information about LearnQuest.



*Susan LaShomb*

Resource Manager

*Learn**Q**uest*

225 E. City Avenue, Suite 106

Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004

610-206-0101

610-206-0102 (fax)

www.LearnQuest.com

susan.lashomb at LearnQuest.com
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From cbc at unc.edu  Thu Jul 31 16:45:59 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:45:59 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Weekend Airport Ride Help for Boot Camps
Message-ID: <DE4C7D77-696B-466B-8E71-E83121CE73BF@unc.edu>

TriZPUGlians,

Boot Camp needs some help this weekend.

My Mother's 80th birthday was yesterday and I must go out of town this  
weekend to meet up with my family for a belated celebration of that  
occasion.

As a result, I cannot run the van service from about 9am Saturday to  
4pm Sunday.

We have three people who need to go from the Hampton Inn on Fordham  
Blvd in Chapel to the airport on Saturday, and one person who needs to  
come from the airport to the Hampton Inn on Sunday during those hours.

If you would, please look at this:

http://www.openplans.org/projects/bootcamparama-2008/flight-board

The following people need to depart on Saturday:

- Arjen Djikstra - international flight leaving at 5:05pm (Needs to be  
at the airport at least a couple of hours early if not more)

- Dafina Abernathy - flight leaving at 7:15 am

- Steve Gregory - flight leaving at 12:05 pm

This is Arjen's first time in the US, so it is important that he get  
some help getting home safely.

The following people arrive on Sunday:

- Kurt Bendl - 2:35pm

Kurt is our buddy from past boot camps. I would feel pretty bad if he  
had to take a taxi.

Please look at the flight board linked above. The email addresses and  
cell numbers for the people needing rides are listed there. Please  
contact one of the four people above and offer a ride. Please update   
the flight board under the appropriate departure or arrival volunteer  
column with your name and cell number. If you are performing an  
arrival pickup, be sure and check the airline website before leaving  
for the airport to see if the flight is going to be late. You can ask  
your arrival pickup to please call you on your cell phone when their  
plane touches the ground also. I recommend parking your vehicle in the  
garage ($1 per hour) and meeting your arrivals in baggage claim.

Thanks for your help.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From cbc at unc.edu  Thu Jul 31 18:12:10 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:12:10 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Tonight's Bootcamp Social
Message-ID: <38A52066-22BC-4624-8C19-5934CF612274@unc.edu>

Just a reminder, the Boot Campers are self-organizing their social  
events here:

http://www.openplans.org/projects/bootcamparama-2008/social-events

We'll be going to Fuse this evening. Directions on the page above.  
We're leaving the Hampton Inn at 6pm. Please come join us. This will  
be the last night in town for most of the Plone Boot Campers. We'll  
have a new crop of campers next week.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599