what's needed to spruce up the howtos, or zope.org? iirc, there was a closed group with that mission setup some time back
It wasn't really 'closed' - just 'well defined'. It fell apart, due to both of the committed developers backing out due to commitments they couldn't get around. I am still highly interested in helping lead this and actually doing work if we had 1 or 2 others who were committed. We also already have a designer put in some time to assist with a "nicer" look and feel who is still willing to work on this. The goal was not to just 'spruce' things up, but rather change the focus of the site from everything to just Zope the software, Zope Documentation, and Zope Community. I was just talking about this on Christmas with someone, so there's still hope it will happen. Andrew Sawyers