[Zope] Keeping my promises - writing tutorials for Zope

[Chris McDonough]

Personally, I think the best way to get the ball rolling on a Zope
cookbook is the following:

- Clear your calendar for the next four months.
- Buy 20 cases of your favorite beer and situate them in your fridge.
- Shut yourself in a room.
- Talk to Adam at ZopeLabs and make a deal with him.
- Shut down your email access.
- Cut off contact with your friends and family.
- Download ZopeLabs' recipes.
- Edit the recipes into a real, publishable book.

I'm only half-joking.  Producing worthwhile documentation is
(unfortunately!) not a suitable-for-committee effort.  It can be done
in spare time, but it calls for one or two committed and dedicated
people, three at the most.  It's also not a software development
project.  The minute you start to build elaborate tools to get the job
done, you're dead.  You'll end up with at least one nice tool but no
content.  We have statistical proof of this. ;-)

- C

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald L. Chichester" <complaw@hal-pc.org>
To: "Heimo Laukkanen" <huima@fountainpark.org>
Cc: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@zope.com>; <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Keeping my promises - writing tutorials for Zope


>
>
> Heimo Laukkanen wrote:
>
> > There is definiteve need for Zope Cookbook! I would have wanted
that
> > agest ago and when I have talked with new Zope beginners, they
seem to
> > want one too. Code examples that show Zope concepts are really
> > powerfull way to learn after the person has first understood some
of
> > the basics of Zope. It should just be done.
> >
> > Who could start doing such a project and how we all could help it
to
> > happen?
>
> The best place for something like a Zope Cookbook would likely be on
the
> freezope.org domain.  You could set something up there.  They can
give
> you a domain like "cookbook.freezope.org" or "recipie.freezope.org"
> (assuming its not already taken).  Then we could set up sample code
> along the lines that we were talking.  However, unlike ZopeLabs, the
> interface would be set up along the lines of "What to do..." or some
set
> of basic topics.
>
> Ron
>
>
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