Actually, I was hoping that this is how it might fall out. By hook-or-crook, I want to get two of our developers to pycon. The possibility of a 'web services' z3 sprint would be major icing on the cake (for us). If the interest is not there, however, (hard to get a read on that) any exposure to a sprint (for us) would be great. If the interest is not there, I think we will try and steal a few hours of Brian's busy schedule to (at least) begin mapping out a strategy to move forward with his work (to date). As I said in the past, I will be able to put full-time (long term) developer resources into this effort early next year.
Sounds like a plan :) I was thinking that a good near-term thing to do would be to see about setting up a Web Services "SIG" area on the Zope 3 dev site and start mapping out strategy there. A good start might be to schedule an IRC chat so that the players can all get together and agree on some high-level goals, so that we have some options for concrete things to do by the time of the conference. Brian Lloyd brian@zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com