[Gsoc] Flint: bonding period report

[Luciano Ramalho]

My mentor, Leo, requested a report about our activities during the
GSoC "bonding period", so here it is.

I am fortunate to have a close friend as a mentor this year, so we did
not feel much further "bonding" was required or appropriate :-).

However, we did take advantage of the fact that we live in the same
city to meet a few times (I think it was three times, about 9h total)
to discuss the design of Flint, and take a good look at Drupal, which
is probably the most important non-Zope Open Source CMS out there. We
also spent some time outside of those meetings writing about Flint. I
also took some time to reread parts of Philkon's Zope 3 book,
particularly those concerning the implementation of the idea of
"content" within Zope-3, an area that we have not explored so much in
Grok, IMHO.

Some of what we discussed is posted here:

http://flint-cms.blogspot.com/

And we also wrote some specs and ideas in the project Wiki here:

http://code.google.com/p/flint-cms/w/list

I will import some of the texts in that wiki to the Zope SVN repo as
part of the documentation of Flint.

Cheers,

Luciano