[Zope] Keeping my promises - writing tutorials for Zope

[Heimo Laukkanen]

During Europython 2002's BOF-sessions I promised to contribute to the 
community by writing tutorials for how to get into Zope for beginners. 
The need for these tutorials is clear, since we are teachingh Zope in 
our company, Fountain Park, and at the same other people have the same 
need too.

Besides the Zope Book and other published books, there has been nothing 
to support users that are beginning their journey on Zope. There has 
been several howto's and guides for different things, but many are 
outdated or have only about one subject where as these tutorials are 
intended to be a series of information that will give a more complete 
view for the beginner user. Meaning these tutorials will be a series 
that have a common story that ties them together.

These tutorials will not invent the wheel again, but create a clear path 
that people can follow and start their journey. My wish is that these 
tutorials will help more people to start use Zope in a good way and 
possible help Zope to land better into corporate world, when more users 
have knowledge and trust into this system.

This is the beginning of my small contribution to the community. Hope 
this helps and someone else will also want to contribute. What I would 
like to hear from everyone else is, what things should be covered and 
how, to which other resources and how-to's I should link to and -- the 
most important part -- ' Hey nice idea, I could write about this thing' 
or 'yes, I commented to the wiki just a couple of minutes ago'.

Frontpage for the project is found at:

http://www.zope.org/Members/huima/tutorials/FrontPage

And the first tutorial being written:

http://www.zope.org/Members/huima/tutorials/IntroductionTutorial


Please contribute and help to generate a new generation of Zope users!

-huima