[ZWeb] book link?

[Paul Everitt]

I updated the Zope.org home page to include a link to the Zope Book
under the "Learn More" section.

--Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Everitt [mailto:paul@digicool.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 5:13 AM
> To: Maik Roeder
> Cc: zope-web@zope.org; Karl Anderson
> Subject: Re: [ZWeb] book link?
> 
> 
> 
> Karl is more right than he thinks. :^)
> 
> It's not just the Zope Book that is obscure.  There are a ton 
> of really
> good resources and documents that aren't getting visibility.  The ZDP
> has done better than Zope.org on this, but I think they and 
> we could do
> better.
> 
> I spent the past two days assembling links for a customer regarding
> developer-oriented links.  It surprised me how much good stuff is out
> there.
> 
> Here's what I think we should do:
> 
> a. Make the Zope Book prominent on the Zope.org home page. 
> Specifically, have a link to it appear after "Zope Tour" under "Learn
> Zope".
> 
> b. Let three of the main ZDP team be local-role owners of
> /Documentation.
> 
> c. Work together to create really useful, elegant
> /Documentation/index_html pages and subordinate pages.  Do 
> this with (a)
> good HTML, (b) good organization, and (c) editorial value by 
> summarizing
> links before people click.
> 
> Ultimately we need to do something more systematic.  I'm proposing
> something that would take under ten hours and wouldn't require new
> software.
> 
> Also, it sends a message that we at DC are on the way to treating the
> ZDP as partners.
> 
> --Paul
> 
> Maik Roeder wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Karl !
> > 
> > Karl Anderson wrote:
> > >
> > > People keep asking me about where the book draft is - we 
> should have a
> > > link in Documentation or something, this is one of the 
> most important
> > > things on the site, I think.
> > 
> > On the ZDP site, there are the following Jumpstations:
> > 
> > Zope Book
> > Zope Quick Reference
> > Zope Products
> > Zope FAQ
> > Zope HowTos
> > Zope Snippets
> > Zope Wikis
> > Zope Tips
> > 
> > The Zope Book Link leads to:
> > 
> > http://zdp.zope.org/projects/zbook/
> > 
> > There I have a link to the O'Reilley Book.
> > 
> > > Right now the only way I know to find it is if there's a 
> news item, or
> > > if you know it's in Michel's space.
> > 
> > That is a general problem with the Zope.org site that the 
> ZDP has tried
> > to solve for some months now, but the effort has been 
> largely ignored.
> > Maybe now is the time to solve this problem together ?
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Maik Röder
> > 
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> > 
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