Blob, I believe in throwing ideas and dreaming together. After seeing Andy's Plone windows installer I began to wonder, would it be possible in future to have content providers running local Zope instances and replicate with xml-rpc to the web server. And with possible I mean as easy to use as radio. First features would be. 1) Easy to setup on local machine, doubleclick to setup, click clickety click and local service is up and running 2) Person can start to create local content right away, wether it is a blog or articles or news items 3) When ready and connected to the net, user can upload and send selected files or changes to designated server either published right then or possibly to a person's own Inbox from which user can select to publish them This would make the authoring experience same also offline. It would be nice to be able to be offline with laptop, make the content and layouts ready and just send everything to the server when connected. Think about email, while offline you can do the emails ready and then just upload your 'outbox' to the email server. This would be enough for offline editing - either for people who depend on dialup connections afrom home or are doing reportage for example on the run via GSM or GPRS. ( For you americans GPRS is packet switched mobile phone network, which allows also higher bandwith than normal GSM data ). Why am I interested in this idea? Well first of all the authoring on the run. With same tools and interfaces as online. Otherwise the content creation tools would be - most likely MS Office or similar. For content creators I believe it would be best, if the processes and tools are same - no matter where you do your publishing, online or offline. In a year or two or three or whenever - it would be nice to have something like Lotus Notes' replication, meaning user could download snapshots / replicate parts from the server to local machine. Edited objects would be replicated back to the server and edit conflicts resolved. This kind of replicated storage would kick ass and would make possible to create applications that could be taken to field within laptops and then again replicated to main database when back at the office. Any thougths. -- Heimo Laukkanen Oy Fountain Park Ltd Hämeentie 153 B, 00560 Helsinki, Finland tel. +358 9 777 68 161, gsm +358 40 759 1110, fax +358 9 777 68 100 http://www.fountainpark.org