Introduction from Colorado

I also work in a small public school district on the western side of 
Colorado.  I'm totally new to Zope/Plone and think it may be just the 
thing to use as an intranet/extranet site.

I'm still trying to figure out how to get it to do the basic things I 
believe it can do, like having a separate secure area for the school 
board members to discuss and post documents.  I also want an area for 
parents and the public at large, an area for teachers, an area for 
students of each of the schools, and an area for the district 
administration.

One thing I think would be nice, and maybe I just haven't seen it yet, 
would be a WYSIWYG editor, since just about everyone knows how to create 
documents with that.

I could use some basic tutorials or advice on even just the overall 
structure of a good plone site and how to get the areas described above.

Also, I've been working on some python scripts that work with Active 
Directory and would probably want to integrate those somehow to minimize 
the number of users I have to set up and manage.  We're going to a 
system where every student has an account on the domain, and I really 
want to automate THAT.

Brian




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