[Zope-CMF] is there an event content in the works

[Chris Beaumont]

Hello,

(blushing and a bit shy to make this reply.. but it came to me and I 
think its a good idea so what the hell)

	Let me be the devils advocate and advocate some pragmatic 
development of something that perhaps could be a BIG selling point 
for Zope in the greater Net community..

   Why not build a CMF module that had some standardized hooks to an 
SQL database,  or better yet, develop a Zope-wide standard for using 
plug-in SQL functionality at isolated places like this where they 
would save a lot of work in Zope?

(not unlike the concepts of using databases for ZODB 'storage' or the 
way several products work now..but this hasn't really become 
standardized.)

I have been building a event announcement/display and calendaring 
system for my employer, MSRI, using a hybrid Zope/Oracle 7 
combination, and as we know, the combination of Zope (with 
dtml-sendmail) and an SQL backend is an almost unbeatable one.

There is no denying that it *excels* in dealing with (searching, etc) 
situations like searching and storing large amounts of frequently 
changing datetime data.

Why not create and standardize an SQL-centric add-on like this..so 
that people could develop Zope products for it?

Adding a method of installing a Postgres instance, say, into Zope 
with a simple installer script similar to the current Zope binary 
install would make this unbeatable combo very, very easy to work with 
(i.e. some standard functionality add-ons could be built simply) and 
fun to boot..

  Right now the variations of SQL syntax may intimidate some of the 
newcomers, but if there was a standard (i.e. 'plug-in') way to 
integrate them, I think that would be a VERY big plus for Zope as 
well.

And it would let everyone start cooperating on some *really* cool 
Zope add-ons that could take the whole thing to another level, I 
think..

Just my (admittedly newbie) thoughts on this idea..

Chris



>  > I looking for an event-content for the CMF, with features like:
>>
>>  - announce an event, like a concert
>>  - ticket reservation
>>  - mailing of new events to registered members
>>
>>  is somebody already working on such a thing, or what is the best way, to
>>  initiate and colaborate on the development ?
>
>If you find one, I'd like to hear about it.  If you decide to write
>one, I'd like to participate!  (We'll need one for the zopified
>python.org site.)
>
>--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>
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