Well, let me see..... I would consider giving the summer to working on Zope Documentation in Exchange for Zope School. That's right, I'm as much a newbie to Zope as that egg they are breaking in the Perl2Zope thread. But I live 20 minutes from Zope Headquarters.....Fredericksburg, eh? I like working long hours and am probably going to be available through mid august/september. The downside is that I am "really new" to zope and python. The upside is that I'm into it.... It would be a good backgrounder for that book I've always wanted to write about something... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com> To: "Jason Cunliffe" <jasonic@nomadicsltd.com> Cc: <zope@zope.org>; <zdp@zope.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 4:47 PM Subject: [Zope] Re: [ZDP] Re: [Zope] The agony of the ZOPE Documentation Jason Cunliffe wrote:
I reckon there's about 25 man weeks of work to do based on 5 people spending: -1 week to build the tools -1 week to plan the structure of the documentation -3 weeks to get ALL the Zope documentation linked in one place (which is what zdp is supposed to be...)
So, has anyone got the cash? ;-)
Well I have asked a few times before, before but never a reply.. so I will ask again:
How much would it cost? (U$?)
Based on the above figures, and assuming £500/day/person, it comes out as: £62,500 (roughly $100,000)
Perhaps you have no time but some money..
Personally, I have neither ;-)
resources to go round. And money might really help out here...
I agree, I would love to do it, and I'm sure my employer wouldn't mind if someone else was footing the bill ;-)
It seems like rather a catch-22 [or is that a zope-22] : until the docs are in better shape, it is so much harder for more people to contribute usefully because it is so easy to get lost again..
I agree :-)
ZDPLINE.COM ??
$ whois zdpline.com Whois Server Version 1.1 Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. No match for "ZDPLINE.COM". Well, the name is there... ;-) cheers, Chris
Perhaps someone with better dtml skills than I can make a little mini priceline.com app for zdp..
Everyone/Anyone wishing to contribute something towards documentation logs on and enters the amount: instant tally shows total potential sponsorship with column for person-hours/days at rate. Instead of a well intentioned message thread which will be rapidly drownded in a sea of DTML minutuae, we can have visible target + 'potential' zdp attractor
When we hit a 'u$eful 'threshold - $ponsors kick in with their actual contrib. and zdp advances. Perhaps you have a better crazier idea..I hope so:-)
Meanwhile, some fascinating and surreal reading: Interview with Jay Walker http://www.strategy-business.com/thoughtleaders/00209/page1.html
my $0.25 - Jason
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