[triangle-zpug] Another Successful Plone Boot Camp and Other Items of Interest

[Chris Calloway]

Hi TriZPUGlians,

We just put another 118 people through two weeks and three sessions of 
Plone Boot Camp. It was grueling. It was fun. And we managed to have 
very few leftovers this time. Whoo-hoo!

Big thanks to Rob Lineberger for the Green Joes coffee sponsorship and 
the run to Costco (check's in the mail). Thanks also to Mike and those 
who helped clean up.

Everytime we do a boot camp, I learn something about how to do them. 
This time I learned just because a classroom space is available in 
August doesn't mean you should do a boot camp in August. The heat was 
just unbearable some days.

Some news:

Frank W. has a new release candidate of Jython (which he will tell us 
about at the next meeting):

http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2007/08/jython-22-rc3-is-out.html

A new Plone 3.0 book is coming out very soon:

http://www.packtpub.com/Professional-Plone-web-applications-CMS/book

There is a Python 3000 sprint at Google in Mountain View and Chicago 
next week:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleSprint
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=212259

Very high level outline of how Python runs and helps scale YouTube:

http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture

EVE Online is the coolest thing I've ever seen done with Python, and I'm 
not a gamer or from Iceland or have a cluster of mil-grade servers. 
Here's how the people behind EVE scale their huge and graphic intensive 
MPMPORPG with Stackless:

http://www.slideshare.net/Arbow/stackless-python-in-eve

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.seacoos.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 962-4323
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599