<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">The Z3ext Team has release Beta3 of a Zope3 based Content Management and Social Collaboration Application. Z3ext is a Open Source (License ZPL) and includes:<br><br>Intelligent Content Spaces - Similar to Clearspace by Jive Software<br>Member Management including Support for Groups and Companies<br>Member Blogs<br>Group and Content Space Blogs<br>Document Management with Revision Tracking<br>Portlet Management<br>Project Management<br>Common Content Types (Files, Images, Documents, Folders, News, Events)<br>Activity Subystem to Track Activity by User<br>Tagging System<br>Discussion Forums<br><br>Z3ext is now being used for a large customer in New York City and on September 1st two new customers will announce their adoption of the Platform.<br><br>New Features included in this release include:<br><br>1) Caching subsystem<br>2) Content revisions<br>3) Mail in/out for blogger, forum<br>4) Mail notifications for different actions in portal<br>5) New packages: Wiki, Project, Group<br>6) Memcached session<br>7) principals ban list<br>8) Chameleon templates<br>and much more...<br><br>But most important is API/Feature Freeze!!!<br><br>Z3ext is now ready to be downloaded and used to develop new social collaboration and content management sites. Developers are encouraged to participate in adding new features.<br><br><a href="http://z3ext.net/">http://z3ext.net/</a><br><br><br>Build z3ext homesite locally<br>----------------------------<br>svn co <a href="https://z3ext.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/z3ext/instances/z3extnet/trunk">https://z3ext.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/z3ext/instances/z3extnet/trunk</a> z3extnet<br>cd z3extnet<br>python2.5 ./bootstrap.py<br>./bin/buildout<br>./bin/instance fg<br><br>You can access site:<br><a href="http://localhost:10080/">http://localhost:10080/</a><br>Default login/password for new instance: Manager/password<br><br><br>Enjoy!<br>-- <br></span></body></html>