Zope Corporation is delighted to announce its active participation in the Zope 3 Enterprise Content Management project recently organized by Nuxeo and joined by a number of community members. It's clear that the Zope Community will benefit from a consolidation of common patterns and their implementations in order to grow Zope's market share and we are excited to participate in this effort. In conjunction with the Zope Foundation we expect the Z3ECM project to set the example for global collaboration on sophisticated content management functionality and its application. We are looking forward to launching the Foundation with community involvement so that the Z3ECM project can safely share in the Zope brand. We would like to sincerely thank all of the pioneers who planted the seeds for this effort at the recent sprints (Castle, Paris, etc.). We know from first-hand, large-scale commercial experience that Zope 3 will excel at supporting this effort. Zope Corporation has been making substantial investments in Zope 3 evolution and associated add-on componentry for the last year. An example of this investment is the XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) support that is now available in Zope 3. XPDL support is the first in a series of substantial, customer-inspired contributions that Zope Corporation will be making to the ZECMP over the coming months. Together with Nuxeo's significant ongoing investment in CPS (the Zope 3 version of which will also be contributed to the Z3ECM) we expect the platform will quickly evolve to be the world-leading content management platform. We also propose a name change to the project from Z3ECM to Zope Enterprise Content Management Platform (ZECMP). This will allow the project to disassociate from Zope 3 (it seems likely that there will be 2.8/"5" ports of many/most capabilities). It also makes for a natural transition to the Zope Foundation when that's available in the early Fall. Thanks again to everyone who has helped get Zope 3 and these ideas to this exciting point! Regards, Rob -- Rob Page V: 540.361.1710 Zope Corporation F: 703.995.0412