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+Who is Zope
+==============
+..
+ Three Columns: community, business, history
+
+
+
+.. container::
+ :class: LeftCol
+
+
+ Zope is an Open Source Community
+ -------------------
+ Hundreds of companies and thousands of developers participate in the
+ Zope Community. A liberal BSD-style license called ZPL
+ enables the Zope Framework projects to freely intermingle code and ideas.
+
+ Zope Community Projects
+ ------------------------
+ Zope Framework
+ Plone
+ Grok
+ Repose
+ Repose.BFG
+ Zope 2
+ Plone Community
+
+
+ Zope Community Intersections
+ ----------------------------
+ Python Community
+ Twisted
+ Zope 2 community (mailing lists, irc, etc.)
+ Turbogears
+ Pylons
+ Buildout
+ LaunchPad
+
+.. container::
+ :class: MiddleCol
+
+ Business
+ ---------
+ The `Zope Foundation`_ takes care of business, shepherding Zope's
+ intellectual property and providing the server infrastructure needed
+ to support community projects.
+
+ Partners (is there an existing page?)
+ Solution Providers (link to existing page)
+
+
+.. container::
+ :class: RightCol
+
+ A Brief History of Zope
+ ------------------------
+
+ The beginning of ZopeÕs story goes something like this, in 1996, Jim Fulton
+ (CTO of Zope Corporation) was drafted to teach a class on common gateway
+ interface (CGI) programming, despite not knowing very much about the subject.
+ CGI programming is a commonly-used web development model that allows developers
+ to construct dynamic websites. On his way to the class, Jim studied all the
+ existing documentation on CGI. On the way back, Jim considered what he didnÕt
+ like about traditional, CGI-based programming environments. From these initial
+ musings, the core of Zope was written while flying back from the CGI class.
+
+ Zope Corporation (then known as Digital Creations) went on to release three
+ open-source software packages to support web publishing: Bobo, Document
+ Template, and BoboPOS. These packages were written in a language called Python,
+ and provided a web publishing facility, text templating, and an object
+ database, respectively. Digital Creations developed a commercial application
+ server based on their three opensource components. This product was called
+ Principia. In November of 1998, investor Hadar Pedhazur convinced Digital
+ Creations to open source Principia. These packages evolved into what are now
+ the core components of Zope 2.
+
+ In 2001, the Zope community began working on a
+ component architecture for Zope, but after several years they ended up with
+ something much more: Zope 3. While Zope 2 was powerful and popular, Zope 3 was
+ designed to bring web application development to the next level.
+
+ Source: The Zope 3 Book
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