From: sf@fermigier.com
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: EuroZopeCon Amsterdam: the European Zope users conference will
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 00:39:24 +0100 (CET)

  EuroZopeCon Amsterdam: the European Zope users conference will take place
          during Linux Expo Amsterdam on the 23 and 24 January 2001

[Paris, December 14th, 2000. For immediate release.]

EuroZopeCon Amsterdam, a free conference about the Open Source Web content
management system "Zope", will take place on the 23th and 24th of January,
2001, during Linux Expo Amsterdam.

The Open Source software Zope is a Web application server and content
management system developed by Digital Creations and by a worldwide
community of developers.

The EuroZopeCon Amsterdam conference program will include talks for beginners
as well as technical discussions for advanced developers. Among the currently
scheduled talks: "Diving into Zope for the first time", "Zope and XML", "A
ZPatterns tutorial", "Project management with Zope", "A groupware solution with
Zope", "WebDAV", "Zope Enterprise Integration Portal Toolkit"...

"EuroZopeCon Amsterdam, like previous EuroZope meetings, is the answer to
the growing interest for Open Source content management platforms in the
Internet and Intranet business world. The Zope users community has shown
its dynamism and maturity by self-organizing a conference for beginners as
well as expert Web developers" says Stéfane Fermigier, CEO of Nuxeo, a
French Internet development company, as well as an active member of EuroZope.

EuroZopeCon Amsterdam will be made possible by the support of the following
companies and organizations:

- Beehive Elektronische Medien GmbH (Germany) - http://www.beehive.de/
- BubbleNet sprl (Belgium) 
- Code & Syntax (Spain) - http://www.codesyntax.com/
- Digital Creations (USA) - http://www.digicool.com/
- HealthArena BV  (Netherlands) - http://www.healtharena.net/
- Infrae (Netherlands)
- Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (Netherlands) 
  - http://www.inghist.nl/
- iuveno (Germany) - http://www.iuveno.de/
- Linbox SA (France) - http://www.linbox.com/
- Nuxeo SARL (France) - http://www.nuxeo.com/
- Sky Events (France) - http://www.sky-events.com/
- Thingamy Ltd (Nevis) - http://www.thingamy.com/

About Zope (www.zope.org)
-------------------------

Zope is an Open Source Web content management software and an application
server developed by Digital Creations, an American company, and a community of
many external contributors.

Zope lets teams of HTML designers and Web applications developers
collaboratively build dynamic websites, like Intranets or portals. By providing
functionalities like a search engine, a news publication engine, or tools for
personnalisation and e-commerce, Zope help build sophisticated websites easily
and rapidly, and reduce the time to market of those applications.

Zope is mostly written in Python, the fastest growing scripting language at the
moment.

About EuroZope (www.eurozope.org)
---------------------------------

EuroZope is an informal group of Zope users, developers and service companies
in Europe. EuroZope is focused on Zope and Open Source evangelization, Zope
localization in European languages and setting up Zope events during computer
exhibitions and conferences in Europe.

EuroZope has organized meetings last year in Stuttgart (during LinuxTag)
Paris, Munich (during SYSTEM 2000).

About Linux Expo Amsterdam (www.linuxexpoamsterdam.com)
-------------------------------------------------------

On January 23rd and 24th, 2001, the Amsterdam Rai congress center will host
the first event dedicated to the Netherlands' open source software and
Linux solutions market.

Linux Expo Amsterdam has become the obligatory stop for all professionals
who want to keep up with events and stay ahead of the very latest
developments in Linux and open source software solutions.

Press contact (for EuroZope)
----------------------------

France: Stéfane Fermigier, sf@fermigier.com, tel: +33 6 63 04 12 77.
Germany: Sven Laue, sven.laue@iuveno.de, tel.: +49-841-9014320 
  or +49-179-1178589 (mobile)
Belgium: Godefroid Chapelle, gotcha@swing.be, tel: +32 (10) 45 06 46
Spain: Luistxo Fernández, LFernandez@codesyntax.com, tel +34 943.140.505

Legalese
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Zope is a trademark of Digital Creations. Linux is a trademark of Linus
Torvalds.  Every other trademark is the property of its respective owner.