Hi, I am looking for Australian Zope developers and would also like to get an estimate of the current state of the Zope developer base in Australia. I have gone to the new Australian Users group site OzZope.org but it's too new to give a good indication. A reasonably large organisation in Australia is currently exploring whether to fund a major Zope based application. It is probably the largest such Zope project in Australia. The key business units within that organisation need to manage complex documents whose schema changes at various times. Zope's distributed authoring, object database, role based delegations, LDAP adapter and, of course, zero license fee make it ideal. As the IT infra-structure at the periphery of this organisation is very uneven a web-based approach is particularly appropriate. A prototype has already revealed the power of Zope. However the enthusiasms of the users in these business units who need it, have generated disquiet and then resistance from others in the organisation particularly those in Head Office who have invested in a 'one-size fits all' platform based on Lotus Notes. The failure of this platform to deal with the complexities of the content management problem in the first place led to a Zope based solution appearing so compelling. Other, smaller Zope based applications in other organisations, are also generating similar 'divisions'. As an Australian Zope users group OzZope has been formed, it will help me and presumably other organisations, if developers in Australia, would go to OzZope.org and register. In this way, those interested in exploring Zope solutions can make contact with a developer base. If you are keen to offer services for Zope related work, please contact me. The more we can show that a developer community exists in Australia, the more likely I can convince corporate skeptics that Zope is part of something vibrant, growing and here for the long term. And, of course, if I can assist in getting this larger project running, then further spin off projects will emerge as well. Look forward to hearing from you - and see you over at OzZope.org. Richard Volpato