[Zope] membership directory

[seb bacon]

Hi Ale,

I had a quick read of your project pages, and I'd say the CMF is
probably the right kind of direction, although I wasn't clear what
your requirements are.  For example, if you just want a fancy,
web-based address book, you could pretty much slap something together
in about a day (after getting up to scratch with the CMF).  If you're
doing that, though, would it be a better idea to base the directory in
LDAP and interface to that from zope?  that way you get massive
scalability and interoperability with major email client address
books.  If you're not into that, or you don't need the scalability,
consider not using a RDBMS at all - that way, the product is easier to
set up and might be more appropriate to charities - you could just
post it to them on a cdrom and they would just run install and go.
Plus, it's much more pleasant working inside the ZODB than having to mess
around with SQL.

seb

> I'm working on an open source project to create a membership directory tool
> for voluntary organisations. I've recently decided on Zope as the best
> platform to develop on, and I'm trying to find out if there's already a
> project vaguely similar to mine (eg: a generic directory product, or even
> something else that is database backed and deals with sensitive personal
> data). Also, since I'm thinking of releasing this as a zope product, is
> there a standard way of doing this, and of publicising this within the zope
> community? 
> 
> A description of this project can be found at 
> 
> http://mandible.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I'd be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction, and if
> anyone would like to help, please get in touch! I've tried searching on the
> zope site, but found only the "boring-0.1.tgz" product pages, and an old
> but more complete manual on creating products.
> 
> I apologise if this isn't the right place for this kind of question.
> 
> Ale