[Checkins] SVN: zope-story-website/branches/what_who_why_zope/src/who_is_zope.rst Added initial outline draft of who_is_zope page

Brad Allen brad at allendev.com
Tue Mar 31 23:44:16 EDT 2009


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+Who is Zope
+==============
+..
+    Three Columns: community, business, history
+    
+
+
+.. container::
+    :class: LeftCol
+    
+
+    Zope is an Open Source Community 
+    -------------------
+    Hundreds of companies and thousands of developers participate in the 
+    Zope Community. A liberal BSD-style license called ZPL
+    enables the Zope Framework projects to freely intermingle code and ideas.
+    
+    Zope Community Projects
+    ------------------------
+        Zope Framework
+        Plone
+        Grok
+        Repose
+        Repose.BFG
+        Zope 2
+        Plone Community
+        
+        
+    Zope Community Intersections
+    ----------------------------
+        Python Community
+        Twisted
+        Zope 2 community (mailing lists, irc, etc.)
+        Turbogears
+        Pylons
+        Buildout
+        LaunchPad
+        
+.. container::
+    :class: MiddleCol
+
+    Business
+    ---------
+    The `Zope Foundation`_ takes care of business, shepherding Zope's
+    intellectual property and providing the server infrastructure needed
+    to support community projects.
+    
+        Partners (is there an existing page?)
+        Solution Providers (link to existing page)
+        
+
+.. container::
+    :class: RightCol
+    
+    A Brief History of Zope
+    ------------------------
+    
+    The beginning of ZopeÕs story goes something like this, in 1996, Jim Fulton 
+    (CTO of Zope Corporation) was drafted to teach a class on common gateway 
+    interface (CGI) programming, despite not knowing very much about the subject.
+    CGI programming is a commonly-used web development model that allows developers 
+    to construct dynamic websites. On his way to the class, Jim studied all the 
+    existing documentation on CGI. On the way back, Jim considered what he didnÕt
+    like about traditional, CGI-based programming environments. From these initial
+    musings, the core of Zope was written while flying back from the CGI class.
+    
+    Zope Corporation (then known as Digital Creations) went on to release three
+    open-source software packages to support web publishing: Bobo, Document
+    Template, and BoboPOS. These packages were written in a language called Python,
+    and provided a web publishing facility, text templating, and an object
+    database, respectively. Digital Creations developed a commercial application
+    server based on their three opensource components. This product was called
+    Principia. In November of 1998, investor Hadar Pedhazur convinced Digital
+    Creations to open source Principia. These packages evolved into what are now
+    the core components of Zope 2.
+    
+    In 2001, the Zope community began working on a
+    component architecture for Zope, but after several years they ended up with
+    something much more: Zope 3. While Zope 2 was powerful and popular, Zope 3 was
+    designed to bring web application development to the next level.
+    
+    Source: The Zope 3 Book



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