[Zope] FYI: Zope Weekly News

[Pam Crosby]

Hello,

A major thread this week has been documentation.  Below are two entries
about
the current process for addressing Zope documentation needs.  The ZDP
community continues to volunteer their efforts and talents to make Zope
the best it can be.  Digital Creations will be announcing their efforts
in the documentation area, SOON. 

* Brian Lloyd's Zope article at Devshed has continued to generate
  an interesting discussion about Zope.

  http://www.devshed.com 

* Paul Everitt posted a note concerning a poll pitting AOLserver, Zope, 
  Enhydra, and others.  

  http://www.LinuxDev.Net/
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008088.html

The mailing lists have been quite active, the documentation discussion
has spawn efforts from several directions. 

* Bradford Hull experienced extreme frustration with the available
  Zope documentation that started a lively discussion. Many community
members
  added their frustrations to the lists and possible solutions. 

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008268.html

* Stephan Richter is gathering goal requirements for the Zope
Documentation
  Project. 

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-August/000607.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-August/000576.html
 
* Brian Lloyd answered an query about "pluggable brains" that added
  some light to the possibilities of such "brains".

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007743.html

* A.M. Kuchling released an alpha version of the product that lets you
browse
  through RDF dumps from the Open Directory Project. 

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008215.html

* Alexander Staubo published a Guest Counter product whose class
instances can
  count the number of "guests" to a web site.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008244.html

* Phil Harris announced ZMySQLDA for Win32.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008166.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008165.html
 
* Paul Everitt shared his results with running Zope from a CD-ROM.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008105.html

Until next week...
_______________________________________________
Pamela Crosby

Technical Writer                           mailto:pam@digicool.com
Digital Creations                           http://www.digicool.com