[ZF] Setting up the Zope Management Organization

[Jim Fulton]

One of the most urgent tasks for the Zope Foundation is to set up the  
Zope Management  Organization (ZMO) as described in Section 7 of the  
bylaws:

   http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Foundation/ZopeFoundationByLaws.pdf

In particular, we need to come up with a Zope Development Process,   
ZDP, identify initial "projects" and form project leadership for each  
project.

It is possible that the by laws specify too much bureaucracy for the  
ZMO,  however, rather than spending time trying to change this, I  
suggest we  try to work within it by creating a simple and flexible  
ZDP and doing what we can to manage the ZMO in a lightweight way.

In the first meeting, the Board formed a committee to organize the  
ZMO with Martijn Faassen and I as Board representatives.  (I hope  
that the minutes will be published to the Foundation mailing list  
soon.) I'm am looking for volunteers to serve on this committee.

Also, for those of you who will be at EuroPython, this will be an  
excellent opportunity to brainstorm  ideas.  Note that there will be  
an informal Dinner on Sunday night:

   http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/foundation/2006-June/000107.html

and a panel discussion on the 4th:

   http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py? 
contribId=96&sessionId=9&confId=44

I expect that there will be lots of other opportunities to get  
together and work on creating an effective Foundation.

Jim

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