[Checkins] SVN: web/zf/trunk/ Import ZF website text.

Thu Sep 21 15:12:09 EDT 2006

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  Import ZF website text.
  

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  A   web/zf/trunk/join.txt
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  A   web/zf/trunk/projects.txt

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+About the Zope Foundation
+=========================
+
+The Zope Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that provides
+support for the Zope community and the Zope platform and its
+associated software. Our community includes the open source community
+of contributers as well as the community of businesses and
+organizations that use Zope.
+
+The aim of the Zope Foundation is to assist these communities in
+moving the Zope platform forward. It does this in several ways:
+
+* **The future of Zope is ensured.** The foundation is an independent
+  body that holds the copyrights to the Zope source code. It also
+  maintains the zope.org website. The foundation is therefore able to
+  ensure the continued promotion and development of the platform.
+
+* **Accountable open source.** The Foundation, through its `copyright
+  assignment policy`_, makes sure that any contributions by community
+  members are placed under a liberal open source license (the `ZPL
+  2`_), and are copyrighted by the Zope Foundation. This makes the
+  Zope platform safe to use in any open source or proprietary
+  settings.
+
+* **Support the community.** The Zope community is made up of
+  volunteers that care about the Zope platform. We help in organizing
+  these volunteers so they have the ability to get things done and
+  move Zope forward.
+
+* **Promotion of Zope.** The Zope Foundation promotes Zope. One
+  important channel we use to promote Zope is the zope.org website,
+  which is managed by the foundation.
+
+* **Project infrastructure.** Contributors to the Zope platform make
+  use of extensive infrastructure in order to collaborate, ranging
+  from mailing lists and issue trackers to version control
+  systems. The Zope Foundation, thanks to the contributions of its
+  members, maintains this infrastructure.
+
+.. _`copyright assignment policy`: #
+.. _`ZPL 2`: #
+

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+Documents
+=========
+
+  * minutes of the board
+
+  * bylaws  
+
+  * copyright policy
+  
+  * trademark

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+Welcome
+-------
+
+The Zope Foundation has the goal to promote, maintain, and develop the
+Zope platform. It does this by supporting the Zope community. Our
+community includes the open source community of contributors to the
+Zope software, contributors to the documentation and web
+infrastructure, as well as the community of businesses and
+organizations that use Zope.
+
+The Zope Foundation is the copyright holder of the Zope software and
+many extensions and associated software. The Zope Foundation also
+manages the zope.org website, and manages the infrastructure for open
+source collaboration.
+
+`More information about the Zope Foundation`_.
+
+.. _`More information about the Zope Foundation`: about.html
+
+Join the Zope Foundation
+------------------------
+
+You or your organization are invited to `join the Zope
+Foundation`_. There are many ways in which you can contribute in
+helping us move forward the Zope platform.
+
+News
+----
+
+Minutes of first board meeting available
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The Zope Foundation conducted its founding meeting..
+
+Zope Foundation incorporated!
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The Zope Foundation was incorporated officially at..

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+Form so people can send email to join
+=====================================

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+Membership
+==========
+
+... something about membership classes ...

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+Zope projects
+=============
+
+The Zope Foundation provides support for the communities surrounding a
+number of projects, large and small. We give an overview of some of
+the larger projects maintained by the Zope community.
+
+Zope 2
+------
+
+The Zope 2 web application platform has been under continuous
+development as an open source system since 1998. A large amount of
+software has been built on top of it. Well-known Zope-based projects
+are the Plone_, CPS_ and Silva_ content management systems, and the
+ERP5_ enterprise resource planning software.
+
+CMF
+---
+
+The CMF (Content Management Framework) is a set of components built on
+top of Zope 2 to aid in the creation of content management
+systems. Large content management systems that have been built with
+the CMF are Plone_ and CPS_.
+
+Zope 3
+------
+
+Zope 3 is the next generation web platform developed by the Zope
+community. It has been under development since 2001, and became ready
+for production in 2005. Zope 3 is a developer-oriented platform. It
+aims to provide a collection of fine-grained components that can be
+combined to build powerful web applications.
+
+Zope 3 can be used as an independent server platform, but can also be
+used in combination with Zope 2, using the Five integration layer.
+
+zope.org website
+----------------
+
+The zope.org website is the public face of the Zope project. It aims
+to explain Zope to newcomers as well as guide developers to the
+various subprojects.

