[Zope-dev] Using Zope as replacement for BSCW ?

[Tom Deprez]

>First of all Zope's main job is web publishing (sort of) and thus some
>features which you have in BSCW are missing in vanilla Zope.
>Some things which come to mind are:
>- you don't have notification

What sort of notification you want to have?

>- the user interface might be a bit more complicated
>- object sharing is not that easy as it is in BSCW
>
>The last point of course depends on what you need. Basically in Zope
>you have one directory tree and can give rights for objects (also subdirs)
>to other people. You don't have actually an home directory for each user.
>In BSCW on the other hand you have an homedir for each user and if you
>decide to share an object, a link to this object is simply put into the other
>users homedirectory. 
>So it depends on whether you need some private space for your users or not.

mmm, pehaps is the Zope Portal Toolkit something you need to look at.

>Basically one can say that BSCW is somewhat more tailored to the actual
>needs for collaborative work.
>
>I am also thinking about how to implement groupware in Zope (as I have
>written GROUP.lounge (www.grouplounge.net) I am now wondering how to
>port this ;-). But I will not try vanilla Zope but instead I want
>to write some products etc. to do the things I want. 
>And one of my requirements is e.g. to have one homedir for each user
>thus I might have to create some sort of new user management.
>
>Well, and actually I am quite new to Zope thus I don't know all the
>secrets so don't take the above for the ultimate wisdom ;-)
>
>best,
>  Christian
>
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