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as "gocept". gocept blog – public archive Thoughts, ideas and technical tidbits from the crew formerly known as "gocept". Menu Home About Imprint The final teardown After writing so many teardowns in tests for software projects for customers, open source projects and in house software, it is now time for the gocept folks to finally work on a last teardown of the company itself. After 23 years of existence gocept will close the doors and stop operating business at 2023-11-30. The developers found a new home at the wonderful company Minddistrict . There we will work in a product team and build software to empower people to take care of their mental well-being. Customers We want to thank all our customers for their trust in us over the years and for the often multi year long collaboration. Sometimes gocept was a bit on the bleeding edge of technology and often that was shining through in the development work. But we did our best to provide the individual software applications to the needs of our customers. Open Source Software It was in the very essence of gocept to work with open source software. The company grew with Zope and contributed to the Zope ecosystem. Out of this relationship many events were supported like DZUG-Tagung, a EuroPython Conference and in particular in the last years a round of Zope sprint to ensure compatibility and stability in the Python 3 wonderland. We are very happy, that Minddistrict also builds its core product on zope.* packages and that we can further contribute to the open source world. Most of the gocept.* packages on https://github.com/gocept have been archived or given to the people and companies, that still use them. In case you need to work with them, please contact mail@gocept.com or the respective maintainers on PyPI. We will be able to unarchive the package and if necessary transfer the release rights. gocept folks Some parts of gocept already left the company in 2014 and formed https://flyingcircus.io/ . They are more successful than ever providing a very good and individual hosting and, more important, operation solutions for bigger applications and complex setups. They took over the dedication to software and to new technology, and they are good colleagues to work with. The remaining 4 developers at gocept join the Minddistrict company and will work there in a bigger team to empower people to take care of their mental well-being in the Netherlands, in Germany and the DACH-region. We will still keep an office in Halle, so there might be a chance to stop by. The last Christian of gocept (in a row of many) will continue his management work within the Saltlabs and the Koffij – with the mission to develop modern, contemporary and flexible workplaces in Halle and build communities that motivate and offer pleasant working environments. gocept.cleanup() In case you need anything or want to reach us, please find us on GitHub (or the place to be in the future) or write an email to mail@gocept.com . Author Steffen Allner Posted on November 29, 2023 Categories en Tags gocept , programming , python , software , zope Leave a comment on The final teardown Ready, set, sprint: Earl Zope invites again Sprint with Earl Zope at September, 21st and 22nd of 2023. Earl Zope is already a long time inhabitant of the Python 3 wonderland . Living here for some years with the help of his friends, he sometimes looks back to the good old times” but mostly enjoys his current live with all its surprises and unexpected turns. Gocept invites you to sprint for Earl Zope’s future well-being: 21st till 22nd of September 2023 in the SaltLabs of Halle, Germany. Participants of the sprint are also invited to join the gocept-23 party at 23rd of September 2023. This sprint will the last one hosted by gocept as the company will go new ways by the end of the year. To join please register via meetup.com . (After registering for the sprint, you’ll get the party invitation.) Author Michael Howitz Posted on May 12, 2023 Categories en Tags event , gocept , party , programming , python , software , sprint , zope Leave a comment on Ready, set, sprint: Earl Zope invites again Sprint with Earl Zope in April of 2022 Sprint with Earl Zope at April, 13th 2022 towards Python 3.11 compatibility. Earl Zope – once in a while – needs some help to feel well again in the ever changing Python 3 wonderland. Please join a one-day-sprint at April, 13th 2022 organized by gocept to make Earl Zope more comfortable with the current Python 3.10 and the upcoming Python 3.11. Especially the new upcoming version has some bitter surprises for Earl Zope: The C-code of some of his dependencies will no longer compile without modifications. An example dependency is already ported, so it should be possible to port other ones by the monkey-see-monkey-do principle. The sprint will be a pure online-sprint. If you want to join please register via meetup.com . Author Michael Howitz Posted on March 9, 2022 March 10, 2022 Categories en Tags event , gocept , online , programming , software , sprint , zope Leave a comment on Sprint with Earl Zope in April of 2022 Zope April Sprint 2021 report Earl Zope invited to a sprint and nearly 10 people were joining to work on several aspects in Earl Zope’s ecosystem: fix the ZEO tests on Python 3.8+ add a delete all” button for Products.BTreeFolder2 fix DeprecationWarnings in Products.CMFCore and zope.sqlalchemy migrate CI system of some packages from TravisCI to GitHub Actions document the GitHub teams of the zopefoundation organization … By the end of the day the sprinters were joined by Paul Everitt and Jim Fulton to hear some stories of the former glory of Earl Zope and to discuss the current status and possibilities. Earl Zope thanks all the people who joined the sprint and made it possible that he can feel a bit more comfortable in the Python 3 wonderland. There is another one-day-sprint upcoming at Friday, 2nd of July 2021 . Feel free to join via meetup.com . Earl Zope is looking forward to meet you. Author Michael Howitz Posted on May 5, 2021 Categories en Tags event , report , sprint , zope Leave a comment on Zope April Sprint 2021 report Earl Zope invites to sprint Two Zope sprints at 23rd of April and 2nd of July 2021. Already nearly two years went by after Earl Zope got his permanent permit to live in the Python 3 wonderland . He enjoys his new life, the many new friends he made and the old ones who also moved to the Python 3 wonderland. Life could be so happy and so easy but there are always some disruptions appearing and shadows of the past showing up: the automatic verification for Earl Zope and all of his staff broke – aka the continuous integration system for Zope and its dependencies has to be changed from TravisCI to GitHub Actions the laws, regulations and instructions have to be adapted to the Python 3 wonderland standards – aka still large parts of the documentation are outdated: they are describing Zope 2, and should get an update to match Zope 5 Python 3 wonderland rapidly changes and develops: each year there will be changes Earl Zope has to handle – aka Python 3.10 is in its late alpha versions now and it is already known that there are changes in Zope’s dependencies necessary to support that new version So Earl Zope kindly asks for help with this troubles.– Or should he call them challenges? He invites to a two short sprints: Friday, 23rd of April 2021 Friday, 2nd of July 2021 Both sprints will be remote-only due to the unclear pandemic situation. On the other hand it allows participants to save time and money otherwise needed for travel. To participate, please sign up using Meetup: The dates above are links to the Meetup events. Earl Zope looks forward to these days and thanks in advance everyone who will be contributing to the success. Author Michael Howitz Posted on March 8, 2021 Categories en Tags documentation , future , sprint , zope 1 Comment on Earl Zope invites to sprint Presentation: We have nearly one million...