[Zope-dev] Re: [Z3lab] Nuxeo supports Zope Corp announces

[Jean-Marc Orliaguet]

Eric Barroca wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> Following the announces from Zope Corporation yesterday about their 
> willingness to create a Zope Foundation (that would manage 
> independently Zope 2 and Zope 3 projects) and to participate actively 
> in the Z3ECM project, I would like to express briefly Nuxeo's 
> position about all the news.
>
> First, we would like to thank Zope Corporation for Zope 2 and Zope 3 
> as Open Source software, they are amazing products !
>
> For us as far as we know, the Zope Foundation is a really great news. 
> This will probably solve the main issues we heard from people in the 
> community and from some customers (brand and copyright security). 
> It's really great news that Zope Corporation is now ready to go 
> further on the community way and involvement. We are ready to help as 
> much as needed in establishing the ZF as a vendor-neutral 
> organisation with the mission to develop and promote a great 
> technology (like the Apache or Eclipse Foundations).
> The Zope Foundation will, IOHO, a big step towards "project 10X" to 
> establish Zope as a leading development platform for all kinds of web 
> and internet applications.
>
> On the Z3ECM project, we are very glad that Zope Corporation wants to 
> actively join the project !
> We are certain that having ZC resources on this project will clearly 
> help to build better products and solidify the platform.
>
> We will also support the move of the Z3ECM project to the ZF when the 
> issues of copyright ownership will be discussed with the project 
> stakeholders. It could definitely help unifying CMS zope community 
> and will give more credibility to the platform from a customer point 
> of view.
>
> We will also support the move of the Z3ECM project to the ZF when the 
> issues of copyright ownership will be discussed with the project 
> stakeholders
>
> In short, we are really happy and excited, and will definitely 
> supports ZC to move forward on these topics with the other members of 
> the Zope community.
>
> I'm pretty confident that the whole community will support this as well.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> EB.
>
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Hi!

This is really great news!

I am going to start working at getting Chalmers to be one of the key
players in the foundation which would make the foundation even more
vendor-neutral. I am confident that this will go through.

regards /JM