UW Oshkosh Plone confab report for Jan. 6, 2012

We met in Polk 336, the old Polk Library staff lounge.  

Discussion Items

• met Brian Gallops <gallob75@uwosh.edu>, library's new STEP student - welcome!
• Polk web services: David's new product uwosh.library.ws can output either JSON or XML on demand and has IP address restriction capabilities
• Nathan's mention of http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.dottedname for importing modules given their name
• JSON-P consumer http://json-p.org/
• cross-origin scription http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
• Intranet skin that is basically the campus skin
• Nathan working on a set of tools to transfer Plone site content only (but not based on wsapi4plone from WebLion), running into a large blob file creation problem on save
• Zope-only sites: 
• http://www.channel4.com/programmes/hippo-natures-wild-feast/articles/live
• http://www.delib.co.uk/dblog/
• http://www.yoloelections.org/archives
• Python coding huTools http://pypi.python.org/pypi/huTools/
• chosen widget from plone.app.widgets https://github.com/plone/plone.app.widgets
• Apache Solr http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ and autocompletion of web service class data shared by library and IMC, Solr lack of security, Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) compliance 
• collective.portlet.tal
• MIT OpenCourseWare (built on Plone) http://ocw.mit.edu/
• discussion of improvements to campus skin products (uwosh.theme*):
• redo them based on Plone 4 default Sunburst theme (currently based on Plone 3 classic theme)
• responsive / mobile
• fixed or variable width optional
• front page has full header, but other pages not
• front page has fixed width, but other pages do not
• what else?  more light boxes, ajax
• use Diazo or CMSUI or both

Next confab

Our next confab will be on Friday, January 13, 2012.