[Zope3-dev] Re: zope3 website report?

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey Mats,

Thanks for joining this discussion!

Mats Nordgren wrote:
> My name is Mats, I've visited #zope-dev under the nick gnosis.  I've long
> been a fan of Zope but very inactive in the community.  I'm not much of a
> programmer and always had a hard time grepping Zope2.  Zope3 has made great
> strides to develop simple stuff like content object etc, I still have a hard
> time with more advanced stuff like workflow, memberships, catalog (I know
> these might seem like trivial stuff to the likes of you ;)

These things are never trivial to me at least; don't underestimate 
yourself there by overestimating others. :)

> I've spoken to J1m and emailed Stephan and asked if there was anything I
> could do with helping this along, ideas, organization, editing, etc.  I'm
> with Martijn that the site should itself be marketing for Zope3 technology
> and should be geared towards all levels of knowledge on Zope technology.

Great to hear you're offering to help! Perhaps you and I should just get 
together and try to write up some texts. Drop me a mail if you like.

> I'd love to see a much more extensive section with how-tos, recipes, and
> tutorials.  If I can conquer Zope we should have hit the bottom of the
> proficiency scale :)  Perhaps I can get there by helping with those specific
> sections.

Great idea! My first contributions to Zope back in '99 or so were in the 
Zope Documentation Project. Stephan Richter also was heavily involved in 
this back then.

> Would there be any chance that a message board could be included directly on
> the site for support?  Perhaps take Stephan's messageboard tutorial?  This
> would showcase Zope3 and add more layers of support.  Perhaps this could be
> synced with the zope-user mail list?  Just make it easier to get quick help
> without the somewhat tedious process of getting running on the list.

It's something to consider, though I'd like to set the technology 
requirements for any new Zope 3 site as low as possible, so that we 
don't have an excuse from doing stuff. :)

Regards,

Martijn