[Checkins] SVN: zope-story-website/branches/what_who_why_zope/src/ fleshed out business and community sections, improved wording in Persistence Options section; also now showing navbar on all three pages

Thu Apr 2 15:55:34 EDT 2009

Log message for revision 98793:
  fleshed out business and community sections, improved wording in Persistence Options section; also now showing navbar on all three pages

Changed:
  U   zope-story-website/branches/what_who_why_zope/src/index.rst
  U   zope-story-website/branches/what_who_why_zope/src/who_is_zope.rst
  U   zope-story-website/branches/what_who_why_zope/src/why_use_zope.rst

-=-
Modified: zope-story-website/branches/what_who_why_zope/src/index.rst
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--- zope-story-website/branches/what_who_why_zope/src/index.rst	2009-04-02 19:44:12 UTC (rev 98792)
+++ zope-story-website/branches/what_who_why_zope/src/index.rst	2009-04-02 19:55:34 UTC (rev 98793)
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
          production systems for nearly 10 years. The "granddaddy of Python
          web frameworks" is alive and kicking, re-energized by the
          regular injection of new technologies such as `Zope Framework`_,
-         `Twisted`_, and `Python`_ community innovations.
+         `Twisted`_, and other `Python`_ community innovations.
          
 
 

Modified: zope-story-website/branches/what_who_why_zope/src/who_is_zope.rst
===================================================================
--- zope-story-website/branches/what_who_why_zope/src/who_is_zope.rst	2009-04-02 19:44:12 UTC (rev 98792)
+++ zope-story-website/branches/what_who_why_zope/src/who_is_zope.rst	2009-04-02 19:55:34 UTC (rev 98793)
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
-Who is Zope?
-============
-
 .. role:: header
+.. role:: zsection
 
 .. container::
+   :class: menuacross
+
+   + `What is Zope? <index.html>`_
+   + `Who is Zope? <who_is_zope.html>`_
+   + `Why Zope? <why_use_zope.html>`_
+
+
+.. container::
    :class: LeftColOfThree
 
    :header:`Community`
@@ -14,17 +20,18 @@
    Community.  A liberal BSD-style license called ZPL enables the Zope
    Framework projects to freely intermingle code and ideas.
 
-   .. rubric:: Zope Community Projects
+   .. rubric:: Zope Community Links
 
    + Zope Framework
-   + Plone
-   + Grok
+   + `Plone`_
+   + `Grok Community`_ 
    + Repoze
    + Repoze.BFG
    + Zope 2 community (mailing lists, irc, etc.)
-   + Plone Community
    + `Planet Zope <http://planet.zope.org/>`_
+   + Central index of `Zope-related mailing lists`
 
+
    .. rubric:: Zope Community Intersections
 
    + `Python`_ has a substantial worldwide open source `community 
@@ -38,11 +45,10 @@
    + `buildout`_, originally developed at Zope Corporation, has gained traction outside the
      Zope Community as a Python-based build system for creating, assembling and
      deploying applications from multiple components.
+   + `Launchpad`_ hosts many software projects, including several involving
+     Zope, and is itself built `Zope Framework`_.
   
-   + LaunchPad
-
   
-  
 .. container::
    :class: MiddleColOfThree
 
@@ -53,10 +59,12 @@
    The `Zope Foundation`_ takes care of business, shepherding Zope's
    intellectual property and providing the server infrastructure needed to
    support community projects.
+   
+   Professional support and training for Zope solutions can be obtained from
+   companies such as `Zope Corporation`_ (the originator of Zope)  and other
+   `Zope Solution Providers`_. In addition, the various Zope community sites
+   are good places to check for consultants and potential hires.
 
-   + Partners (is there an existing page?)
-   + Solution Providers (link to existing page)
-
 .. container::
    :class: RightColOfThree
 
@@ -94,6 +102,9 @@
 
 .. _`Zope Foundation`: http://foundation.zope.org/
 .. _`Zope 2 Application Server`: http://zope2.zopyx.de/
+.. _`Plone`: http://plone.org
+.. _`Grok`: http://grok.zope.org
+.. _`Grok Community`: http://grok.zope.org/community
 .. _`Zope Framework`: http://docs.zope.org/zopeframework/
 .. _`BFG`: http://static.repoze.org/bfgdocs/
 .. _`Twisted`: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/
@@ -101,4 +112,10 @@
 .. _`buildout`: http://buildout.org
 .. _`Zope Public License`: http://www.zope.org/Resources/License/
 .. _`Python`: http://www.python.org/
-.. _`Launchpad`:  http://launchpad.net
\ No newline at end of file
+.. _`Launchpad`:  http://launchpad.net
+.. _`Zope User Groups`: http://www.zope.org/Resources/UserGroups
+.. _`Zope-related mailing lists`: http://www.zope.org/Resources/MailingLists
+.. _`Zope Solution Providers`: http://www.zope.org/Resources/ZSP/
+.. _`Zope Corporation`: http://www.zope.com/
+.. _`Zope Solution Providers`: http://www.zope.org/Resources/ZSP/
+.. _`Launchpad`:  http://launchpad.net

Modified: zope-story-website/branches/what_who_why_zope/src/why_use_zope.rst
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--- zope-story-website/branches/what_who_why_zope/src/why_use_zope.rst	2009-04-02 19:44:12 UTC (rev 98792)
+++ zope-story-website/branches/what_who_why_zope/src/why_use_zope.rst	2009-04-02 19:55:34 UTC (rev 98793)
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+.. role:: header
+.. role:: zsection
+
+.. container::
+   :class: menuacross
+
+   + `What is Zope? <index.html>`_
+   + `Who is Zope? <who_is_zope.html>`_
+   + `Why Zope? <why_use_zope.html>`_
+   
+
 Why Use Zope?
 =============
 
@@ -2,3 +13,3 @@
 Zope applications, libraries, and frameworks are suited for different purposes
-and environments; but most share these common advantages:
+and environments; but most share common advantages:
 
@@ -43,8 +54,8 @@
 
 Zope applications traditionally benefit from the use of a mature
 high-performance transactional object database called ZODB, which increases
-developer productivity by avoiding the complexity of a relational database
-layer. This benefit multiplies when combined with Zope schema classes
+developer productivity by avoiding the management overhead of a relational
+database layer. This benefit multiplies when combined with Zope schema classes
 to marry content objects and metadata with web forms.
 
 However, relational databases (RDBMs) are also a popular persistence option
@@ -75,7 +86,7 @@
 Security
 -------------------
 
-The Zope Framework offers significant security advantages in the form of
+The `Zope Framework`_ offers significant security advantages in the form of
 a fine-grained and highly manageable infrastructure, including support
 for pluggable authentication and permission-based security policies for object
 publishing, down to the level of methods and attributes. 
@@ -102,7 +113,7 @@
 I18n and L10n Support
 -------------------------------------------------------------
 
-Zope Framework supports a manageable approach to internationalization and
+`Zope Framework`_ supports a manageable approach to internationalization and
 localization, to make Zope applications easily translatable.
 
 
@@ -130,6 +141,7 @@
 
 
 
+.. _`Zope Framework`: http://docs.zope.org/zopeframework/
 .. _`WSGI`: http://wsgi.org/wsgi/
 .. _`WSGI "middleware"`: http://wsgi.org/wsgi/Middleware_and_Utilities
 .. _`Twisted`: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki

