Hey folks, As I dropped earlier before the conference, I was going to make a number of important announcements. Well, for those of you who could not attend, here they are, as well as some other information that should be of interest to you. First off, as many of you know, New Riders is now publishing The Zope Book. The upshot of this is that the book is now under the Open Publication License (http://opencontent.org/openpub). The book has a new home at SourceForge, and you can go there and check the book out of CVS, add patches, bug reports, and request features. http://sourceforge.net/projects/zope-book/ And now for the *new* news, DC has commited to create a Zope Developer's Guide. This will be the authoritative text on building Zope components. It will cover Interfaces, Components, Persistence, Product Development, Security, Publishing, Debugging, and Testing. Its home is also at SourceForge, and it is also under the OPL. http://sourceforge.net/projects/zope-devel/ And last, but not least, we are writing yet another guide for you, the Zope Administrator's Guide. This guide will cover installation, building, clustering, database troubleshooting and repair, and many other very useful bits of information. Details are the same, SourceForge and OPL. http://sourceforge.net/projects/zope-admin/ As you can see, DC is commiting itself to providing full documentation coverage of all aspects of Zope: using, developing, and administerating. Please visit these projects and tell us what you think. The Zope Book is in its final stages of development, and the dev and admin guides are in their planning stages, so there's still a lot of work to be done. Finally, I'd like to mention that we have decided to start a weekly 'Featured Interface' article to be published in a as yet undetermined online publication, and Zope.org. This weekly article will feature one interface out of Zope, and prose and examples explaining the interface and how it can be used to complete useful projects. These articles will be oriented to be a very useful resource in conjunction with the upcomming dev guide, and will eventually be compiled into an upcomming, comprehensive interface reference for Zope. Well, that's it! (as if that's not enough ;). Stay tuned, and definately give us a hand if you feel the itch to help, we could use it. We are looking for bug-catchers, community editors, feature requests, pointers to existing documentation that can be included, and if you can write according to our guidelines and documentation process, authors. http://www.zope.org/DocProjects/developing Please send any comments or questions to docs@digicool.com, or any project specific comments to one of the above SourceForge projects. It was good to meet with many of you at the conference, and I was really pleased to hear lots of positive feedback about our recent documentation efforts. From here, it will only get better, and more fun! -Michel