[Zope] Invitation To Brag, Boast, or Simply State Solutions with Zope

[Jonathan Cyr]

Hmmm... no feedback of any kind... sounds like I may have overestimated 
the community.

-Jon

Jonathan Cyr wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> As I finish my first project with Zope, I've benefited greatly from 
> the folks on this discussion list... their Zope knowledge much greater 
> than my own.
>
> As I leverage Zope's features to solve my application problems, I 
> wonder what all of you folks have been building with Zope, knowing the 
> resource this list is.
>
> As everyone attacks the various technical problems or questions of the 
> moment, I think the nature of this list's problem-solving nature 
> doesn't showcase Zope and its successes very well.
>
> I would like to propose the bragging, boasting, and/or summary of your 
> Zope solutions.  I believe it will help the community, those looking 
> at Zope for the first time, and each other.
> My impression is... that as Zope succeeds as a platform... we all 
> justify our time investment... and hearing about Zope solutions in a 
> constantly evolving software development market could be very powerful.
>
> Success stories about your solutions with Zope,  posts could simply be 
> titled "Success Story: Project Title".  Details such as...
>
> - Who uses them?  How many users?
> - How important are the solutions to users?
> - How did you leverage Zope to get there?
> - What components or add-ons helped the most?
> - What industry do you support?  Were they resistant to Zope?  Has 
> Zope penetrated conservative IT shops?
> - Who uses DTML, ZPT, ZEO, CMF, ZClasses, UserFolder X, Pound, etc, 
> and how did it help?
> - Does your app churn numbers, transactions, views, etc... got some 
> stats for us?
> - Including various levels of expertise... folks who author products, 
> to those who apply them to specific needs.
>
> Best of all, letting your ego "out to play", once in a while, is a 
> good thing...
>
> It is important that, if you let your ego out, you have an effective 
> plan to capture it safely and return it to its work.... hehe
>
> If you think this idea has value, I'd love to know... I'm really tired 
> of PHP, J2EE, .Net, or LAMP success stories in all these magazines.
>
> Not sure how this will fly,
>
> Jonathan Cyr
> cyrj at cyr.info
> http://www.WeddingWeblog.com
>
> ps- I will prepare a brag-session of my product as well... if deemed a 
> good idea
>
>
>
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