Personally, I think the best way to get the ball rolling on a Zope cookbook is the following: - Clear your calendar for the next four months. - Buy 20 cases of your favorite beer and situate them in your fridge. - Shut yourself in a room. - Talk to Adam at ZopeLabs and make a deal with him. - Shut down your email access. - Cut off contact with your friends and family. - Download ZopeLabs' recipes. - Edit the recipes into a real, publishable book. I'm only half-joking. Producing worthwhile documentation is (unfortunately!) not a suitable-for-committee effort. It can be done in spare time, but it calls for one or two committed and dedicated people, three at the most. It's also not a software development project. The minute you start to build elaborate tools to get the job done, you're dead. You'll end up with at least one nice tool but no content. We have statistical proof of this. ;-) - C ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald L. Chichester" <complaw@hal-pc.org> To: "Heimo Laukkanen" <huima@fountainpark.org> Cc: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@zope.com>; <zope@zope.org> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 12:24 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] Keeping my promises - writing tutorials for Zope
Heimo Laukkanen wrote:
There is definiteve need for Zope Cookbook! I would have wanted
that
agest ago and when I have talked with new Zope beginners, they seem to want one too. Code examples that show Zope concepts are really powerfull way to learn after the person has first understood some of the basics of Zope. It should just be done.
Who could start doing such a project and how we all could help it to happen?
The best place for something like a Zope Cookbook would likely be on the freezope.org domain. You could set something up there. They can give you a domain like "cookbook.freezope.org" or "recipie.freezope.org" (assuming its not already taken). Then we could set up sample code along the lines that we were talking. However, unlike ZopeLabs, the interface would be set up along the lines of "What to do..." or some set of basic topics.
Ron
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