Re: News?

Hello the list,

>From: Dean Goodmanson <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Zope-marketing] News?
>Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:03:31 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Greetings Zopista's,
>
>A friendly "ping" to the Zope Marketing list...
>
>Questions/Thoughts:
>
>Is Zope marketed to 'local'/neighborhood ISP's?

Not yet. But things are moving, and we should be able to do it soon.

>The ZMI seems a worthy FTP alternative for customer's
>personal web sites.

I agree.
Maybe, once you convince customers, then these ISPs will come to us.

>Anyone know why NIP rated higher than freezope on the
>Free Python and Zope Hosting Directory
>http://www.oinko.net/freepython/ ?
>NIP has CMF but Freezope has more products + support
>mechanisms.  The line "But if you need professional,
>reliable hosting..." underneath the summaries seems to
>indicate that the free provider's don't provide
>profesional hosting.

This one is interesting. Professional Zope hosting is not easy since Zope is 
not CGI and you can't allow as many products as you may want.
I mean there's an important cost for the service provider in order for the 
user to really benefit from the power of Zope. So this can't be a free 
service.

>Any particular marketing goals for the last half of
>2002 you'd like consideration, feedback, or support
>with?
>
>Any idea why O'Reilly Network hasn't published many
>Zope articles?

Some ideas:

1/ Zope products need to look pretty. We need more/better use of CSS. And we 
need to show it to the public. Any idea why the zope-skins list did not take 
off ? I think we should continue this route, taking the lessons learned with 
Plone to the other Zope projects.

2/ Some Zope articles on O'Reilly Net and/or IBM Developers site are 
definetely needed. Maybe with Zope 2.7 getting some Zope 3 services 
backported in it, there is an opportunity for someone to write a great 
article announcing the future Zope 3.

Regards,
Kamon

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