Paul Everitt wrote:
Gabe wrote:
I wanted to ask the list what people's thoughts were on the appropriateness of implementing a Slashdot-like site in Zope.
Your email this weekend finally prompted me to make the decision on Tabula and to announce our intentions on doing a Zope-Slashdot.
Here are my plans with this regard:
1) Create a mailing list for "Zopespot", the name of the community project that coordinates this.
Zopespot is the community or the "this" ?
2) When Ken gets here, make him the shepherd for the project.
Sorry for being a relative newcomer to zope, but who is Ken, and where is here (Zopesport, this email list, where you are physically)?
4) Turn the zope.org site into a legitimate contender for best portal/community site on the Internet. We intend to invest pretty heavily in making the Zopespot software and the content on zope.org a shining example.
Great!!! Any timeline on this? Will the zopespot software be opensource, gnuish (or at least zope-licenish)?
With the Tabula software available for the Zopespot project, I think you'll be pretty impressed. I loaded a 23 Mb portion of the Internet movie database into a Tabula on my P166 laptop with 64 Mb running NT. Search times for a combination fielded/full-text search came back in under a second.
Do you have a URL on Tabula? I've seen it mentioend several times, but I have not had the time to go look it up, and I can't get through to egroups (I promised myself I wouldn't say anything negative about them in public... ).
until the Medusa integration is complete (not that throwing together a slashdot clone can be done before digicool folks can get that done).
I'm a BIG fan of organizing the requirements before marching off on such an ambitious project.
Hey, I'm with ya there. Unfortunately, I have certain needs (ie to get something up on a web site) that can't wait too long. Right now, my other option is setting up a RDBMS (sybase, perhaps) and getting that slashdot perl code working better -- far from my first choice. I'm more than willing to help out on this Zopespot project! I'd be even more motivated if I could get something out of it soon ;-) -Gabe