The fourth snowsprint is over, a big Zope and Plone sprint. This year with 56 people from 14 different countries. We met as usually in the alps of Austria and stayed at the very nice Gasthaus Hirschen. Everything perfectly organized thanks to our lovely sister Miann. This year we had a very nice mix of topics and the results are amazing.

• performance for viewlets and views in zope3 - they are now cachable!
• z3 training application - more people learned the wonderful world of zope 3 component architecture
• Philipp von Weitershausen gave a one day tutorial about Grok
• Multimedia for Plone - Nate lead the multimedia team and they added some new features to the Plone4Artists package
• Calendaring for Plone - from the calendaring track, lead by Spanky the best from different products was taken and put into a new one, check out dateable
• REST - me and Stefan Holek continued on the lovely.rest package for zope 3 that was started by Stephan Richter. We managed to add a REST api for Stefan’s lovely.counting counter with only few lines of code.

Much more was accomplished and even more was taught and learned. This is what some are saying: continue reading the full article

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