NZO content administration (was: Re: [ZWeb] Zope.org feedback: Welcome to Zope.org)

[Erik Lange]

At 11:34 PM 2/27/03, Jeffrey P Shell wrote:
>On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 01:55  PM, Matt Young (via 
>www.zope.org) wrote:
>
>>When you have extremely stale content on a site like this you make it 
>>next to impossible for people to justify Zope as a viable technology.
>>Imagine:  "using Zope/CMF/Plone you can easily author, edit, and approve 
>>fresh content for your site."  Featured article:  2 months old.  Zope 
>>training:  two weeks past.  If you really want to promote Zope, the very 
>>easiest thing to do is simply freshen up the home page.
>
>Thank you for your input.
>
>We are working on upgrading the site to much newer software than what is 
>currently running the Zope.org.  The current Zope.org site pioneered a lot 
>of Zope technologies and ideas that have found their way into newer 
>software offerings, but sadly it cannot take advantage of those newer 
>offerings.

I believe it's important that the new zope.org won't have this problem, and 
therefore it should not be build on products that have choosen to differ 
from the current path of CMF, even if it speeds up the production of a NZO 
- or we will have the same problem in six months or sooner... unless 
ofcourse, if the choosen product is going to be the official CMF 
implementation in the future...

>That said, it's still running very well considering the size of its 
>content database, community, and age.

+1 :-)

If it ain't broken, don't fix it ;-)

It seems to me, that the biggest problem with the current Zope.org, is 
keeping content uptodate, and not the look and functionallity - how will 
this be improved with NZO ?

As I see it, a new site with a new design, will not solve this problem... 
that doesn't mean, that I don't respect Sidney's work, I'm just not sure it 
will be that much of an improvement for the community, comparred to the 
current zope.org...


Greetings,
Erik Lange