[Zope-Coders] Volunteers to edit the Zope Book

[Chris McDonough]

Hi folks,

Over the past few months, the online version of the Zope Book
(http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZopeBook) has been marked up with
probably a few hundred comments which point out problems in examples
and spelling as well as grammar and whatnot.

Over the weekend, I edited the first two chapters (the Preface and
Introduction) in a private copy, folding in answers to questions
raised by comments.  This took me about 8 hours or so.  There are 17
chapters remaining:

Using Zope
Using Basic Zope Objects
Dynamic Content with DTML
Using Zope Page Templates
Creating Basic Zope Applications
Users and Security
Variables and Advanced DTML
Advanced Page Templates
Advanced Zope Scripting
Searching and Categorizing Content
Relational Database Connectivity
Scalability and ZEO
Extending Zope
Appendix A: DTML Reference
Appendix B: API Reference
Appendix C: Zope Page Templates Reference
Appendix D: Zope Resources

If each of these 17 chapters requires 6 hours of editing time, this
obviously adds up to about 102 hours of work, which is about 12 days
worth of work. It's clear that due to customer work, I will not be
able to edit the remainder of the book in in time to make the final
release of Zope 2.6.  It would be really nice to have a Zope Book
that matched the upcoming Zope 2.6 version and also addressed all
the comments that were attached to the book so far.

Is anyone willing to claim a chapter out of the book, edit the
comments out of it and send the result to me?

- C