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[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

Here's the project launch announcement I mentioned.
They have project repository in place already, documents such as a 
concept map and related white papers, and priority on architecture 
design and specs before code.

John S.


--- Julien Anguenot <anguenot@nuxeo.com> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 02:38:44 +0200
> From: Julien Anguenot <anguenot@nuxeo.com>
> To: zope-announce@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope-Annce] [Zope3 / ECM] : Project launched !
>
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> Paris, 16 May 2005
>
> Dear Zope community,
>
> On behalf of Nuxeo, I'm pleased to announce that the Zope3 / ECM
> project
> is launched !
>
> The main goal of this project is to build the next-generation Open
> Source ECM Platform on top of Zope3 able to compete with the major
> ECM solutions on the market such as Documentum, OpenText, etc...
>
> It's been discussed seriously since last year's Castle sprint, and
> some events occurred such as the Zope3 / ECM sprint [1]_ in March in
> Paris this year where people from the major Zope2 CMS projects were
> represented.  (Plone, Silva, CPS and Zope Corporation people were
> there) showing everybody's interests in working together on a common
> project as a first commitment in this effort.
>
> .. [1]_
http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/blogs/fermigier/2005_03_18_paris_zope3_ecm_five
> We believe the first iteration for such a project is to :
>
>  - discuss together and share our respective experiences
>  - come up with an architecture that everybody feels good with
>  - write specifications
>  - validate the specifications.
>
> For now we set up :
>
>  1. a mailing list [2]_
>
>  2. the project's resources repository.  All interested parties are
>    welcome / expected to subscribe to the mailing-list and join the
>    portal.  The website will soon (in next 2 days) contains
>    documentation about some collaboration rules (that will be
>    discussed on the mailing- list). For now, it contains a few
>    document like some braindumps about the global infrastructure and
>    some arcticles. [3]_
>
>  3. Repository with the existing component started during last sprint
>     plus some new ones [4]_
>
> .. _[2] http://lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/z3lab
> .. _[3] http://www.z3lab.org
> .. _[4] http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/browser/z3lab/
>
> The project started under the name of z3lab.
>
> What is z3lab ?
> ===============
>
> Z3Lab aims at building a strong community leveraging the experiences
> of both individuals and companies that are involved in the Zope ECM/
> CMS market nowadays to create the best ECM platform on the market and
> offer high-value professional services to customers.
>
> ECM Platform
> ==============
>
> The project's main goals are :
>
>  - to unify the whole Zope/CMS-involved community to drastically
> reduce
>    waste of resources (doing twice or more equivalent components /
>    features).
>
>  - to spread Zope3 technology on the market by providing a world
> class
>    ECM Platform with companies providing consulting worldwide and
> backing
>    the project.
>
> Open issues :
> ==============
>
> They are still some open issues that needs to be discussed and fixed
> :
>
>  - For the moment, Nuxeo is hosting alpha code in its repository but
>    this is not intended to be definitive. We just need to agree on a
>    place where to put the code.  codespeak.net is an option that will
>    be considered seriously. If you want to take part of the
> discussion
>    you may join the z3lab mailing list. But please, do not make it
> the
>    main point of the discussion. There is a lot of work to do even
>    before writing a useful single line of code (design / architecture
> specs
>    for example).
>
>  - Licensing : we consider using the ZPL.  Same as above. We would
>    really like to avoid all sterile flamewars :-) We have time to
>    discuss these point *zenly*
>
>  - Copyright Assignment. Until now the copyright assignment is on
>    the contributor.
>
> Though, all the tools we need to start working are in place now and
> available on _[3].
>
> To help the project bootstrap, 2 core developers of Nuxeo (Florent
> and Me) are staffed full-time on this project.
>
>
> On of the short term goal is to present some of the components to our
> community at EP this year.
>
> All the community has been waiting for a Zope3 based ECM far too
> long.
> It's the right time to move on *together*.
>
> Get involved now ! :)
>
> Best regards,
>
>      J.
> - --
> Julien Anguenot | Nuxeo R&D (Paris, France)
> CPS Plateform : http://www.cps-project.org
> mail: anguenot at nuxeo.com; tel: +33 (0) 6 72 57 57 66



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