Advocating Zope 3 on Zope.org (was Re: [Zope3-dev] Fourth ZOPE 3 Mini-NEWSLETTER)

[Jeffrey P Shell]

I noticed that there's no archive of Issue 3 or 4 on the  
Zope3Newsletter wiki page.

Anyways, my real point here is to ask: when do you think Zope 3 will be  
at a stage that it could/should have its own area on the Zope.org front  
page?  At the very least there should probably be a "Zope.org Exit" for  
it soon.  I think it would help generate interest and answer some of  
the primary questions.

`Perl.org <http://www.perl.org/>` keeps a link to the `Perl 6  
development page <http://dev.perl.org/perl6/>`. which has a nice  
one-paragraph summary of the primary vision behind Perl 6's  
development.  The FrontPage of the ComponentArchitecture Wiki could use  
a lead in paragraph like that.  The current lead-in paragraph is too  
brief and the vision statement is too long to answer the "What is Zope  
3?" question.

I'd like to start making Zope 3 information and content easier to find  
on Zope.org, and to start off with, I have created a Zope 3 Redirector  
at dev.zope.org, so that the following URL:  
<http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/> will work.  This will allow the  
Zope3Newsletter to be referred to as:

http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/Zope3Newsletter

This is arguably easier to put in emails and messages than the whole  
.../ComponentArchitecture URL.

I'd like to start adding other links and content to/about Zope 3 on the  
main site, without detracting from the current Zope 2 development.   
This doesn't need to happen right away, but it should probably start  
happening soon, especially if the goal for a Usable Zope 3 Alpha by  
Years End is still on target (which, come to think of it, might be the  
right time to put a 'Zope 3 Progress' area on the zope.org front page).

On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 12:17  PM, Gary Poster wrote:

> WELCOME TO THE ZOPE 3 MINI-NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 4 (9 DEC 2002)
>
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