Great news about things on the horizon. Probably many of the current zope-developers have in part the same goals, not a complete Portal in the beginning though. Here are some questions regarding some subgoals. I'm mainly interested in the ``Personal Areas''. Brian Lloyd writes:

We plan to demonstrate this by reinventing the zope.org site, using it as a demonstration and case-study of a portal site that incorporates:

o Powerful information browsing and searching

o News items

o Issue tracking Means this calendar and schedule? I thought of this as a good area where acquisition could be used. The appointments for a department can be acquired by the calendars of the employees. And the employees can make their personal schedule with a folder-method of the Personal area folder.

o Community membership Is this only achieved with permissions, or are there special methods involved?

o Community projects

o Personal areas that community members can maintain themselves

I think this will be a folderish object, right? I try to implement something like this. But it is hard to make this general, because there is currently no easy method, besides external methods to extent the functionality of such products. Will it be possible to extent products in zope, without making a new one. The problem now is, that external methods need to be deployed at possible many locations.

o Community involvement in the form of polls and discussions

but anyway, great to see all these new possibilities. Thanks Zopistas :-) __Janko