Paul wrote a roadmap back on January 18th for Zope and it would be great to again have a New Roadmap:
...Howdy all. I've attached below a quick snapshot of things happening for Digital Creations and Zope. The roadmap finally allows me to answer some of the questions coming up here in the Zope community....
5 months have elapsed since then. Some items for discussion and elaboration: * What products are free (open source)? * What products are commercial and what do they cost? * When will they be released? *** Examples: Zope2, Portal Toolkit, ZTables, Confera, Collector, Tabula and replication... * Updated example ZOPE sites or "case studies" particularly with Zope2 using the Portal Toolkit, ZODB3, full text site searches (Zope native -- not HTdig), and the Zope.org site itself! Also: Case study sites using the many contributed products: XML, NotMail, SquishDot, WebDav... * Can ZOPE be used as the complete web solution? What about e-commerce? Have people set up e-commerce stand alone or with other back end 'banks'? Examples? * What are the Plans to continue to promote ZOPE ? You wrote in early April: "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." * What is the timeframe for this? IDEA - Zope.org site could be THE prime example for all it can do including e-commerce. Have you considered selling hats, tee-shirts, sweats, mouse pads, coffee mugs... etc. with the ZOPE logo from the Zope.org site? * How are you planning to encourage new Zope Hosting Providers? (currently only two official hosts). * Digital Creations funding. You got your first infusion of cash in December. Are other funding rounds planned? Is an IPO planned? Are you looking for other investors? * Please share any other "Big Picture" perspectives for Zope. Thank you. -Bob OConnor bob@rocnet.com