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As Alan suggests in the

Greg — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:02:53 -0500

As Alan suggests in the previous comment, the best place to ask these kinds of questions is via the SIP mailing list (I assume that is the right one ?).

zope 3.2 ?

lon1 — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:34:12 -0500

Is SIP running under zope3.2 ?

I am just trying to see if I can set it up running , but I got ton's of messages, and the zope instance stopped. The meaningful messages was:

ZopeXMLConfigurationError: File "/var/lib/zope3/instance/1/lib/python/sip/services/appcontainerservice.zcml", line 3.2
ConfigurationError: ('Unknown directive', u'http://namespaces.zope.org/zope', u'serviceType')

It looks like the

Thanks.

Sample Inventory Program (SIP) Answers

alanrunyan — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:41:33 -0500

Aaron,

Best place is to ask on the sip mailing list.

I just re-read the README documentation. Yes, if you have no clue about Zope3 and how to install software you would not have much success. There *is* some upside: There are 2 deadtree books on Zope 3!

Regarding punters i.e. online demo: you can try http://sip.houston.enfoldsystems.com with the login/password, gandalf/123

Regarding QT client, since that is being developed at SFBR and outside of Enfold Systems, I do not know. They are using it in production and it probably needs quite a bit of refactoring for general consumption.

The problem is that it takes a very long time to make software usable out-of-the-box. We are hoping to go for a grant and get the NIH to pony up money for us to create a windows installer that ships with postgresql. one click install. We are very successful with the Plone Windows installer -- as an example of ease-of-use.

Thanks for your questions,
Alan Runyan
Enfold Systems
SIP, an Open Source LIMS

SIP questions

ajeffs — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:32:49 -0500

Alan,

Any idea when install docs with more detail than the readme in the SIP tarball will become available? Also, any chance of Enfold setting up a demo system for punters to test without having to perform a local install? Any idea when the Qt client will be out?

Aaron.

I'm a LIMS whore too

Neil — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:15:53 -0500

Stew over at F & L tells us:

every bioinformatician has to code at least one LIMS in their lifetime

Bah - I hate it because it's true. This must be the new "every bioinformatician has to code at least one BLAST parser in their lifetime", now that the Bio* projects have taken care of that one.

In case anyone is wondering about MamboLIMS - I've had no time either to work on it further or to package it up as a custom Mambo install. If you're comfortable with the installation and configuration of Mambo and its components (DocMan, Simpleboard Forum and Facile Forms), package and instructions are here. It's in use in our lab and works pretty well according to my "beta testers".

Enfold Systems employee posted article

alan runyan — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:19:36 -0400

I'm Alan Runyan - one of the founders of Enfold Systems. We are promoting it and looking for others places to promote Sample Inventory Program to increase awareness in the bioscience domain. It's an excellent product and one of the first large scale Zope 3 applications. Some of the technology is used by Ubuntu's backoffice system. We are really proud to announce SIP's release. We also want to ask this community for feedback on the product and how/where we can get the word out to other people who are interesting in Open Source LIMS?

And yes we are very active in the Python, Zope, and Plone communities. Thanks for the recognition. Rarely do we get positive feedback saying "oh yeah and they are contributing to these communities. Being a company in Open Source often feels lonely.

we would love feedback about the product, alan runyan

Do you use this system or do

Greg — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:58:21 -0400

Do you use this system or do you work for Enfold PR ?

I am aware of Enfold as a Plone spin-off company (most of the lead developers work there ?) and also being quite active in the open source community. I have no problems posting this to the front page I'm just curious who is promoting the product (company or user) ?

bioteam

dopey — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:44:25 -0400

Bioteam (bioteam.net) have a nice collection of their works here: http://bioteam.net/gallery/bioclusters

Google images

Neil — Mon, 23 Jun 2003 02:18:05 -0400

My tip for the day is to visit Google images and search for 'Linux cluster'. Seems people who have built them are keen to display a picture on the web and there is often good associated information.

Savings potential

chris — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 00:04:40 -0400

wrt administrations, I suspect that if you point out that PS2's clock in at AUD400 per unit, whereas a decent new PC would be in the AUD1000-2000 range, you might get some attention.... Oh, that's without bulk buying savings.

As for ported/embedded Linux, agreed that publicity would raise image, but it might take some doing -- some of the concepts are rather esoteric. At the end of the day, I suspect that the barrier is the desktop. No matter how many times you tell people that the internet runs on *nix, that most servers around the place are *nix, that OSS is good, etc etc, the relevance is not there for them. The question that needs to be answered for conventional PC users such as policy makers etc, is: how does this affect MY life wrt computing? Iow, I think that persuading people of Linux goodness would be easier with a tangible demonstration, which takes us back to the desktop.
I don't think the desktop is where Linux can do the most good, since other systems provide comparable performance for basic tasks. But it is at that interface that people will be convinced that Linux is a contender; proving that it's superior in more advanced computing tasks (eg file serving) would be relatively straightforward to a sympathetic audience.
I feel better now....

Convincing the unitiated

Neil — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 21:49:28 -0400

What a great project. Unfortunately it will be seen as a gimmick by people who don't realise that (a) a Playstation is, in fact, just a computer and (b) as such, can be programmed to run a Linux kernel. I wonder if more publicity concerning ported and embedded Linux (it's all around us!) could aid the Linux/OSS cause?

timely query

Neil — Sun, 30 Jun 2002 05:22:56 -0400

Some of Team Nodal have been wrestling with these issues on and off for some weeks now. Expect the details soon.
As I recall, we looked at all the options you mention, started out with OpenPBS, then decided that Sun Grid Engine was worth a look.
I'm quite intrigued by Jim Kent's Parasol too, if only because the config details look nice and short.
For sure, anything you want works under Debian/Linux.