Howdy. I've been holding off, hoping for a more formal statement of what's going on. Rather than wait any longer, I'll share some pieces of news with you. We are focusing on Linux Expo (May 18-22, www.linuxexpo.org) as a focus point for us where a number of things are going to come together: 1) I'll be giving a speech on the business track about Open Source and Venture Capital. The talk is currently (read: tentatively) scheduled for Saturday, May 22nd at 10:30. Other business track speeches that day are Sun, IBM, and Compaq, so they decided they needed me for a touch of class :^) I expect the topic of my talk will be quite interesting to a reasonable portion of the audience. 2) We are working with a professional PR firm (read: expensive) to coordinate a branding overhaul and PR push. We are positioning Zope as an application server focusing on community portals. The under-discussion brand of the company is "unleashing potential", which is based on Open Source, community portal, safely delegating control, and through-the-web everything. The PR firm will cultivate opinion makers in advance, schedule one-on-one interviews, and make appropriate press releases. 3) We'll have a booth there. 4) We are coordinating some software efforts to coincide with the show. For instance, beta1 of Zope2 will be ready by then, knock on wood. Also, some efforts to fill out our portal story (such as Membership, Catalog, etc.) will land. 5) I certainly expect the zope.org site and the digicool.com site to be overhauled by then. 6) Apparently we're on the PowerTools CD for RedHat 6.0 which I imagine will be launched during the show. As part of the PR push we need some of you out there to ride the wave with us and give us some case studies. This is both crucial for Zope and a great benefit to you! That's a brief version of events. --Paul Paul Everitt Digital Creations paul@digicool.com 540.371.6909