[Zope] [Newbie] Can Zope ...

[Andy McKay]

Well there you go, now I know. Even better....

--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrell, Troy" <troy.farrell@wilcom.com>
To: "'Andy McKay'" <andym@ActiveState.com>; "tav" <tavlists@espnow.com>;
<zope@zope.org>; "Smith Ray" <Ray.Smith@fujitsu.com.au>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 2:35 PM
Subject: RE: [Zope] [Newbie] Can Zope ...


> Same as ZPL
>
> http://demo.worldpilot.com:8080/site/LICENSEWPL.txt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy McKay [mailto:andym@ActiveState.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 4:06 PM
> To: tav; zope@zope.org; Smith Ray
> Subject: Re: [Zope] [Newbie] Can Zope ...
>
>
> I'd personally stay from Worldpilot since AFIAK its not open source.
> --
>   Andy McKay.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tav" <tavlists@espnow.com>
> To: <zope@zope.org>; "Smith Ray" <Ray.Smith@fujitsu.com.au>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 4:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [Zope] [Newbie] Can Zope ...
>
>
> > >>>>> SR == "Smith Ray" <Ray.Smith@fujitsu.com.au> writes:
> >
> >     SR> Are there any "Intranet" type packages which have
> > similar
> >     SR> functionality to what I have quickly described?
> >
> > there aren't any intranet packages per se, but there is a
> > wonderful zope product called worldpilot which you should take
> > a look at. its available at
> > http://demo.worldpilot.com:8080/site/
> >
> > it has a very nice web based mail client / calendar / todo /
> > address book features. that fulfils half of your requirements
> > in an intranet. for the other half, go out and create something
> > based on other zope tools, e.g. zwiki / squishdot / ptk
> >
> > the drawback is in integrating worldpilot with whatever you
> > create. the code is definitely not the most manageable,
> > however, the source is there - so you can do whatever you want
> > :)
> >
> >     SR> If I had to build something like this myself would
> >     SR> Zope be the tool of choice? (I'm assuming it would
> >     SR> be since I'm on a Zope list!)
> >
> > zope is without doubt one of the best ways to do this. most
> > important for me is the ability to extend the product in a
> > rapid and easy manner
> >
> > at esp (company i work for), we desperately looked around for
> > good intranet solutions and ended up making our own 'xnet'
> > product based on zope. it does pretty much anything you would
> > want from an intranet, and using zope was definitely the best
> > decision we made about it.
> >
> > i would offer you this product, however, its been made
> > primarily for internal use, but with a few days work, i guess
> > it could be be made non-esp centric. pop onto irc
> > (irc.espnow.com / #esp) if you want to talk about it.
> >
> >     SR> How long (rough estimate) would something like
> >     SR> this take to develop for a Zope newbie?
> >
> > if you dedicate yourself to this, then about two months. zope
> > has a steep learning curve. but once you get to a certain
> > level, everything becomes much clearer... that is, until you
> > want to rise to the next level of zope meisters
> >
> > --
> > best regards, tav
> > tav@espnow.com
> >
> >
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