I am (a newbie) wishing to get together a team in India that is able to develop web applications for Indian requirements, using Zope, if it is suitable. Such applications would include consumer biased web sites, and also organisation-to-organisation as well as inter-organisation type applications, over distributed sites, such as across a value chain or supply chain. One aim is to use client server stuff as little as possible - remote/distributed management/participation and thin clients (browser only) are very attractive issues for India we guess.

Many application requirements will start off with simple data capture/information display (server side database, structured data) across the distributed users sites. Some of these applications are expected to need more groupware-like facilities over time. Others would need straight-forward internet-based groupware-like applications straight away.I am initially looking to recruit 5 people in India to look at and try Zope for several weeks so that we can demonstrate for ourselves its suitability.

I myself don't have a background in software development (more from the side of application need). I shall be greatly helped if somebody could recommend to me the skills-set/background experience that I should ask of these 5 so that, as a team, they will more likely get to grips with the scope for Zope.

Thank you in advance...

David Tew, InfoEuro Telematics Ltd