Julien KARACHEHAYAS et Frédéric EVESQUE du Ministère de l'Équipement présenteront, ce mardi 8 mars 2005 lors de la journée ADNX, le projet OOo2Dbk qui est utilisé par le CETE Nord-Picardie pour la mise en place d'un chaine documentaire basé sur OpenOffice.org et DocBook.

L'ADNX, Association pour la Documentation Numérique en XML, a pour mission de favoriser la diffusion et la promotion des ressources libres en matière de documentation numérique utilisant la norme XML.

OOo2Dbk est un logiciel libre permettant la conversion de document OpenOffice.org vers le format Docbook XML, permettant ainsi d'utiliser OpenOffice.org pour produire de la documentation au format Docbook (qui est un format XML sémantique, standardisé par l'OASIS, et permettant un structuration forte du contenu ainsi qu'un traitement automatisé de la production dans différents formats de diffusion). OOo2Dbk a été réalisé par Indesko (à partir de travaux d'Eric Bellot) et a été financé principalement par la CNCC et le CETE Nord-Picardie. Ceci démontre une fois de plus l'efficacité du logiciel libre pour la mutualisation des logiciels et des ressources des utilisateurs et contributeurs.

J'espère que cette journée contribuera à faire connaitre le projet OOo2Dbk à un plus grand nombre de personnes

Pour plus d'information :

• Site de la journée ADNX (programme et inscriptions)
• Site de l'ADNX
• Projet OOo2Dbk (informations / téléchargements)
• Site d'Indesko

As Paul Everitt just annouced, Nuxeo will host the next Zope 3 sprint, here in Paris.

The main goal of this sprint is to start up the Z3 ECM effort that aims at building a full-featured framework providing all legacy services a CMS needs (let's talk about metadatas, indexing, schemas & form management, versionning, RDF, document storage, collaboration features, directories and user management, maybe even calendaring, webmail and mail integration, etc.).

I really would like to see you (all highly skilled participants) working hard together to create strong foundations for the ECM framework of Zope 3. I really think if all of us, coming from CPS / Plone / Silva / Zope Corp. succeed to join forces, we can create the next generation Open Source Enterprise Content Management framework.

One of thing that hopefully can help us achieving this alliance is to realize that Java open source CMS makes great progress and might be able to compete with ours soon (maybe already this year). We're not ennemy, we're allies and would gain so much joining forces since Zope 3 offers us a powerful (and sexy :-) infrastructure. Python and Zope 3 rock so much ! :-)

I hope that this week (we all so busy) we will be able to prepare enough the sprint organizing the effort into some dedicated "workshops". Here is a list of workshops I can think of :

• Forms and schemas management : what's missing in Zope 3 to compete with Archetype and CPSSchemas
• Semantic web : what is the place of RDF in the new architecture
• Indexing and Searching : ZCatalog, Lucene, ZSQLCatalog
• Directories / groups / users management and authentication
• Workflow engine and business process management : DCWorkflow, CPSWorkflow, Z3 worklow engine
• Document lifecycle management : versionning, workflow integration, translations, etc.
• Users notification and presence framework (like in CPSSubscriptions) with email, portal, sms, jabber, or whatever support :-)
• Collaboration features : comments, forums, mail integration, calendaring, webmail, etc.
• Migration path : Five, Zope 2.x ?

I am sure that I forget things, and think that we have to define some priorities because we won't be able to address all points :-)
Anyway, I will try to add this to the sprint page this monday to start the preparation and hope to get feedback from all people feeling involved in this effort.

Last : I'm very excited by all of this : so much fun and so big challenge ! :-) I really enjoy to see lot of majors actors the the Zope CMS world working together on the best opensource CMS ever :-)

And the sprint have to be focused on coding things, not only thinking and talking. It's time to code. :-)

Here you can find a good summary of the RCP Plenary that quickly summarize the history of Eclipse RCP, and presents changes with Eclipse RCP 3.1 and.... many very interesting stuff are coming ! :-)

Read the article on EclipsePowered : Day 3 : RCP Plenary.

Slides related (other conference) : Packaging, Deploying, and Running Rich Client Apps"