Minutes of OzZope Meeting Wednesday 1st October

Present: John Barratt, Warren Crosbie, Richard Jones, Hasan Kacmaz, Melanie Kendall, Kevin Littlejohn, Jan Smith, Richard Volpato, Susan Whittam
On IRC: Brenton Bills, John LaRooy, Ken Young and Brenton Bills (UK)
Apologies: Stuart Bishop, Robert Zaar

Zope Training - Kevin Littlejohn
Obsidian are going to be running zope/plone/python training courses. They have formed a partnership with Beehive in Germany. Most likely the first couple of courses will run in conjunction with the Zope 3 Development Sprint in February. Someone from Beehive will be here for the first course.

Python Training - Jan Smith
Negotiations are still continuing with a lecturer at RMIT to run a short introduction to Python course for people new to programming.

Zope 3 Development Sprint - 4th - 8th February 2004
We have the promise of partial funding from one local business. Kevin Littlejohn has volunteered to follow through on another possibility for funding.
There was a call to make this sprint a conference - this was enthusiastically received by the meeting. It was thought a conference would help build zope's profile in Melbourne and is needed. However no one offered to do the organising.

Quicktime Movie of Jim Fulton's introduction to Zope 3
- Richard Volpato
Richard has made a Quicktime movie approx 2 and a bit hours of Jim Fulton's introduction to Zope 3 recorded at the Melbourne sprint in July. Kevin Littlejohn has voluntereed to place this on his hosted space. OzZope will place a link to this so people can download the movie. Jim Fulton has given permission for this.

Community Portals & Demand Aggregation - Warren Crosbie (notes by Warren Crosbie)
Community Portal:
A place (on line) where individuals and organisations can use a browser to maintain their own content.
Demand Aggregation:
When demand for common solutions emerges from a common need, sometimes facilitated by a community minded solutions provider. more

State Government shows an interest in Zope
Office of the CIO, Department of Premier and Cabinet want some feedback about Zope business capability in Melbourne. Local Zope businesses are giving feedback to the Premiers Department. OzZope is compiling a list of overseas government departments using Zope.

Meeting ended at 10pm

Minutes ~Jan Smith and Warren Crosbie