The snow sprint has always been a large and successful sprint due the sprinters, location, the lovely sisters :) and of course sponsorship. This year you can make the sprint as good it always has been or even better.There are many of you who work in companies, have customers, know organizations that are or will benefit from outcome from the sprint. Tell them that they can contribute by sponsoring the sprint. Sprints are extremely valuable and productive development gatherings. You can support Plone and Zope, the efforts of the attendees and help make future Sprints more affordable, accessible and productive.There are three different categories of sponsoring: 400 euros

• your logo on website - small size
• room in the new part of the snow-sprint house

1000 euros

• your logo on website - medium size
• room in the new part of the snow-sprint house
• 1 copy of philipps book

3000 euros

• your logo on website - large size
• room in the new part of the snow-sprint house
• 1 copy of philipps book
• 1 extra book
• 1 free snow-sprint ticket

Please help spread the word that there is way to contribute to development in a very easy way, just send an email to miann(at)lovelysystems.com and tell her how you want to sponsor the sprint.More information about the sprint see plone.org

I found a web page that showed a few funky characters. It must be an encoding problem so I thought about how to fix this. This is how I did.

First I wanted to know how the template file was encoded. To do that I opened Vim and ran “:set fileencoding”. Vim displayed “latin1″. To make the file utf-8 I ran “:set fileencoding=utf-8″ and saved it. The web page looked ok after that.
To verify the encoding one can use a hex editor. I used khexedit (KDE program) to see what my funny character was in hex. Before I changed the encoding the character was E5 in hex. Python can verify that å should be E5:

>>> u’å’.encode(’latin1′)
‘\xe5′

So the encoding is latin1. To verify that vim changed the file correctly one can check with khexedit after changing the file. khexedit now showed C3 A5 for this character. Checking with python again:

>>> u’å’.encode(’utf-8′)
‘\xc3\xa5′

C3 A5 seems to be correct hex for the å character in utf-8 encoding, so know I can be certain Vim did the right thing.

What:
World famous Zope and Plone Developer meeting :)

When:
January 27th to February 3rd 2007

Where:
Sibratsgfäll, Vorarlberg, Austria

Details: see plone.org

Booking:
Maria-Anna, miann(at)lovelysystems.com

Sponsors:
Sprints are extremely valuable and productive development gatherings. You can support Plone, the efforts of the attendees and help make future Sprints more affordable, accessible and productive. On this snow sprint we will have tutorials on Zope3/Five and you can kick-start your education/development by come to the sprint or send some of your employees here.

To sponsor please send an email to jodok(at)lovelysystems.com with who you are and how much you want to sponsor.