[Zope3-dev] Zope3-dev] Zope 3 Sprint for Australia in April 2003

[Jan Smith]

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 00:26, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Stephan Richter wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 November 2002 21:09, Jan Smith wrote:
> > >  o The third stream would be for waves or sea level dwellers - made up
by
> > > other zopistas.  Currently this stream is thinking of updating the
Elvis
> > > Lives tutorial with screen shots and a how-to on Zope Page Templates.
Rob
> > > Page has given the ok for this
> >
> > What does this have to do with Zope 3? The Elvis tutorial is in Zope 2
and an
> > update will not be enough to run it in Zope 3. ;-) However, I think it
would
> > be really cool, if we would have something like it in Zope 3.

I take your point that the Elvis Lives tutorial is a guide to Zope 2. I was
talking in shorthand and meant the equivalent sort of introduction. That is
something that is entirely relevant for Zope 3 but with the addition of
screen shots.

A site for reporting Elvis sightings is a little dated, perhaps the subject
could be Osama Bin Laden sightings or perhaps more tastefully a site for
people who can help unravel the urban mystery that some garden gnomes appear
to be world travellers.

All these tutorial topics could send the wrong message however and give some
the idea that Zope is something trivial. Zope is a serious and complex piece
of software.  Ideally a tutorial should not only get someone up to speed on
the new ZMI or whatever new name the interface gets but gives an addictive
taste of Zope 3's real cleverness to boot.

We are following the Zope3-dev discussions with interest and hope as Kevin
Littlejohn just mentioned that Zope-3 will be sufficiently developed by
April to make a useful tutorial.

regards

Jan Smith