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Web co-ordinators' forum invitation
23 August 2001

Web Site Development & Management in Zope
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This particular event was part of the e-learning seminar series. Web co-ordinators were invited given the particularly web oriented topic of the session.

Dear All,

We'd like to invite you to a summer e-learning seminar presented by Simon Wilkinson of the Medical School's Networked Learning Environment team. The subject is Zope, the system used by the Medical School to run the NLE (details below). The seminar is scheduled for Thursday 23rd August 10am - 11am with coffee available afterwards.

The session is intended for staff with existing web-authoring/development experience who might be interested in the additional benefits Zope could bring to their work. The aim of the session is to make staff aware of the potential of Zope to support the development and management of large web sites. This will include a practical demonstration of how the Medical School is using Zope to generate its Networked Learning Environment.

Specific features covered will be:

  • Web-based editing system
  • Acquisition - similar to server-side includes
  • Database integration
  • Authentication (Portal applications)
  • Products
  • Versions
  • Multi-level undo system
  • Extensibility using Python

The session will close by a look at a recent development in the Medical School's NLE to use Zope to 'power' two separate web sites for the desktop and PDAs from one core MySQL database using Zope for processing functionality.