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VLUG Meeting Notes 2003.11.11

TOPIC: AGM plus Python and Plone

Presenter: Jim Roepcke



Attendance Figures:
Total28
Non-members4
First-timers3

NEWS

Mark McLaughlin:
  • a UBC prof returning to Germany donated his box of books to VLUG
    for us to raffle off and/or sell at meetings
Carl Constantine/Ken Murray/Died Reimer:
  • RedHat spawning Fedora Project, as a separate effort from the RedHat
    development
  • comparisons made to Debian, Mandrake development models
  • see the Fedora site for more details.


The Annual General Meeting, November 11th, 2003

The current list of candidates:

  • Secretary
    • Mark Ritchie
  • Treasurer
    • Thomas McVeigh - incumbent
    • Alex Randell
  • Membership Director
    • Brent Sirna - incumbent
  • Vice-President
    • Carl Constantine
    • Mark McLaughlin - incumbent
  • President
    • Ken Murray
    • Mike Pfleger

The elected Board Of Directors:

  • Secretary
    • Mark Ritchie
  • Treasurer
    • Thomas McVeigh
  • Membership Director
    • Brent Sirna
  • Vice-President
    • Carl Constantine
  • President
    • Mike Pfleger

Ken Murray puts forth motion to close meeting.
Thomas seconds.
Unanimous support from membership.


Presentation: Introduction to Python for Plone Developers

Preamble

Jim is employed by the Tyrell Software Corporation. This presentation was given
by Jim at The New Orleans Plone Conference that occurred this past Oct.15-17.
See here for the pdf version of Jim's talk.

An Overview of Python and Plone

  • Python lets you get a lot done without a complete mastery
  • Plone is content management system built on top of Zope using Python
  • Content Management Systems (CMSs) are frameworks and systems focused on
    organizing and making available to people, data (highly or loosely structured)
  • some systems are more oriented to communities, for example vertical systems
    like Movable Type, PHPNuke, and for a more horizontal system: Plone
    • vertical = application-specific, ie. blog data
    • horizontal = general
  • Guido Van Rossum developed it
    Ed. and it's named after Monty Python ;)
  • Python vs Objective-C, Python used for rapid prototyping when RAM considerations are
    not a concern. "To Hell with the RAM, just please have lots."
  • there's "tonnes of Java refugees in the Plone community", apparently
  • plone.org - look into archives for pdf and html
  • Plone was selected by the Austrian gov't (from 300 CMS) as the most suitable for
    large and complex systems
  • Plone is RAM-hungry...

Book Raffle

  1. Office 2001 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual
    O'Reilly
    - Won by Patrick Samson
  2. FreeBSD
    Bit Free Press
    - Won by Mark Ritchie
  3. MacOS X Visual QuickStart Guide
    PeachPit Press
    - Won by Dewi Griffiths
  4. MySQL
    New Riders
    - Won by Dewi Griffiths
  5. RedHat Linux 9 in 24 Hours
    Sams
    - Won by Gerald Justice
  6. RedHat Linux 9 Unleashed - autographed, no less
    Sams
    - Won by Rich McCue

Meeting Adjourned  to (mostly) Boston Pizza.


Next Meeting

Where: University of Victoria, Cornett Room B-112
When: December 9, 2003
Topic: Writing Linux applications with Anjuta, Glade, and GTK+ By Carl B. Constantine


Notes by Mike Pfleger - outgoing VLUG Secretary.
Edited by Mark Ritchie - VLUG Secretary.
secretary@vlug.org