I would be happy to help with such an effort. I have been dealing with CMFWiki lately to integrate the subscribe facility. So I could offer my support in helping to maintain CMFWiki. Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heimo Laukkanen" <huima@fountainpark.org> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 2:35 AM Subject: [Zope] Zope in intranet - the cool apps?
This is an email to open discussion about development of Zope applications to be used somewhere where they could mean a lot - in intranets, used by people who don't want to use hacker stuff, but do work - more likely do work better than in real life, in just personal contacts with people.
Groupware applications - email, PIM, calendar are out of this discussion. That should be a whole discussion of it's own and have connections to possible real calendar servers ( are there? ) and tools that poeple use ( handheld compatible etc.). Other people are allready trying to or have tried to solve these challenges.
However I would like to talk and discuss with others about the other applications, the stuff that makes the difference and could be really important for the success of Zope.
My favourites.
1. CMF
No questions asked. This is the thing that is a great foundation to build on top of. You can count Plone to this section too, since it is just a skin.
But CMF is a priority in many people's lists, so I am not worried about that. I just wish it would be bigger and better even faster ,-)
One thing that is missing from CMF, is a way to create new content types more easily than ZClasses or Python Products. I mean something like Metapublisher but butter userinterface and all. It would be so great if user could just select the fields they want and create new type and later on even modify it with the same tool. Ofcourse the new type would be made either as a ZClass or python product so that experienced users would be able to extend them easily. That would be - kewl.
2. CMF Wiki / ZWiki
ZWiki is taken care of and developed all the time(?), but CMF Wiki is not.
For me CMFWiki is great - fantastic, absolutely perfect tool for intranet. Building knowledge has never been faster, and it works inside CMF - great!
It would be really great thing, if someone or a group of people - who are comfortable with creating CMF-applications could possibly take over the CMFWiki and work with ZWiki developer Simon to make combine these efforts in a way that development being done with ZWiki could be taken automaticly in use with ZWiki. Just like a wrapper.
3. ZUBB / CMF Forum
Threaded discussions - and usamble inside CMF. This is needed. Squishdot or it's possible future reincarnation Swishdot are also a nice thing, but for different purpose I suppose.
What I like is a simple - intuitive threaded discussions that people will feel comfortable to use as soon as they see it. We don't need many different discussion applications, we need just one - really good and customizable.
4. Some way to access files in filesystem LocalFS or similar?
In intranets this is nice, cool and very good thing to have - since in many cases you will have a big pile of old files somewhere on samba share or otherwise.
People want to save and use files in really easy way, in many cases it is through the windows explorer. Or access the files through intranet.
Compared to samba share or similar problems are allways the smae. Locking - how to upload files etc. People are not ready to do something more complicated than what they are used to, forexample write metadata to files etc.
If it was in windowsexplorer that a popup windows would come up and user would have to type, or user would have the possibility to type the metadata, then it would happen. Maybe.
Here is possibly some work to be done in the future.
I have a couple of wishes or thougths:
1) There would have to be an easy way to share files when things are still cooking and people just throw files back and forth. Possibly normal network folders ( samba share ) is the best way to do this.
2) Files and folders from local filesystem should be easily copied into Zope system, so that they are created as a full CMF-objects and user has to either type in metadata or metadata is automaticly created. In this sense at this phase the files are like first time published publicly and made available for others.
3) Or everything would be in a cool versioning system that would also automaticly site behind windows explorer extension and objects would be accessed from zope through some interface.
Or something else?
What else do you have in intranet running and what should be developed? How do you see Zope as an appserver running corporate intranet?
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While writing this email I've been watching Abyss SE from DVD. Had totally forgetten how great film this was, amazing underwater feelings and great images packed to a movie with love and pasifistic - be a better person towards everyone - message. Damn. This is a movie to watch once every three years,-)
-huima
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