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Sprint topics

The general focus of the sprint is enterprise-level and large-scale Zope. Possible sprint topics include:
  • Eggification of Zope 2.12
  • Enterprise-level & high-scalable Zope issues:
    • ZODB (e.g. ZODB extensions made by Haufe, ZEORaid (Gocept), Relstorage)
    • Performance optimization
  • Buildout:
    • local caching
    • local egg servers
    • egg mirrors (redudant and fault-tolerant egg server infrastructure)
  • Integration of GROK technology within Zope 2
  • Tighter integration of interesting Zope 3 modules via Five into Zope 2 (e.g. z3c.form)

If you have further suggestions or if you are interested in a particular sprint topic, please contact us (see below).

Detailed planning of the sprint topics

Location

Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 

The sprint will take place on the "Haufe Campus"

Rudolf Haufe Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
Verlagsgebäude Campus
Munzinger Str. 9 (Gewerbegebiet Haid)
79111 Freiburg, Germany

Directions

The official sprint map

Click here (hosted on Google Maps)


Date

August 25-27th 2008

Host

Haufe Mediengruppe, Freiburg (HMG), Electronic Publishing Department.

HMG is one of the leading publishers in Germany focused on publications in the field of economy, law and taxes with a strong portfolio of products (print, intranet and internet solutions). Python and Zope are key technologies within the Electronic Publishing department (internal SGML CMS, shop systems, customer portals, internal production workflows and many more). HMG has developed several hundred products on top of its iDesk platform. The iDesk platform is based on Zope and is in use on more than 100.000 customer desktops. The Electronic Publishing department consists of about 40 core developers and a lot of them are involved in some way with Zope. Haufe Mediengruppe is currently in a transition phase where new technology is being adopted. HMG has a long and outstanding experience in building cutting-edge and highly scalable solutions on top of Zope and its other frameworks.

Participants

Where to stay

List of recommended accomodations .

Use the room-sharing page if you are low on budget or interested to share your room with another sprinter.

 Schedule

When What
Where

Sun, 24.8 starting at 19h/7pm

Come-together for early arrivers

­ OZTRALIA - Australian Bar & Restaurant

Eisenbahnstrasse 58 - 62
D-79098 Freiburg im Breisgau

Directions

The restaurant is very close to the city center (close to the train station and the hotels in the city). The OZtralia is supposed to be within a (shopping) passage - so please look twice. The location marked on Google maps is possibly on the wrong side of the street. Click on directions)

Mon, 25.8, 10h

Official sprint start, day 1
Haufe Campus

Tue, 26.8, 9h

Sprint day 2
Haufe Campus

Tue, 26.8, 19.30h/7:30pm (latest)

Social event

­Hotel Kreuzblume

Konviktstraße 31
79098 Freiburg

The restaurant is in the eastern part of the Freiburg city center (10-15 minutes to walk from the central train station)

Anfahrt/Directions (German)

There are various car parks around the city center of Freiburg - even close to the Hotel Kreuzblume. You might take a look the sprint map on Google Maps and search there for "Parkhaus".  

You can also take the tram line #1 (from the central train station) and  exit at Schwabentor or Oberlinden.

Wed, 27.8, 9h

Sprint day 3
Haufe Campus

Getting there

Freiburg im Breisgau is located in the southern-west part of Germany (about 130 km south of Karlsruhe and 70 km north of Basel). Freiburg can be reached

  • by car: A5 Karlsruhe - Basel
  • by plane: closest airport is Euroairport Basel (reachable from these European airports)
  • by train: Freiburg has an ICE train-station and has hourly connections to both Karlsruhe and Basel
Getting there - detailed description