Zope 3 Sprint in Paris : starting the Z3 ECMS effort

As Paul Everitt just annouced, Nuxeo will host the next Zope 3 sprint, here in Paris.

The main goal of this sprint is to start up the Z3 ECM effort that aims at building a full-featured framework providing all legacy services a CMS needs (let's talk about metadatas, indexing, schemas & form management, versionning, RDF, document storage, collaboration features, directories and user management, maybe even calendaring, webmail and mail integration, etc.).

I really would like to see you (all highly skilled participants) working hard together to create strong foundations for the ECM framework of Zope 3. I really think if all of us, coming from CPS / Plone / Silva / Zope Corp. succeed to join forces, we can create the next generation Open Source Enterprise Content Management framework.

One of thing that hopefully can help us achieving this alliance is to realize that Java open source CMS makes great progress and might be able to compete with ours soon (maybe already this year). We're not ennemy, we're allies and would gain so much joining forces since Zope 3 offers us a powerful (and sexy :-) infrastructure. Python and Zope 3 rock so much ! :-)

I hope that this week (we all so busy) we will be able to prepare enough the sprint organizing the effort into some dedicated "workshops". Here is a list of workshops I can think of :

• Forms and schemas management : what's missing in Zope 3 to compete with Archetype and CPSSchemas
• Semantic web : what is the place of RDF in the new architecture
• Indexing and Searching : ZCatalog, Lucene, ZSQLCatalog
• Directories / groups / users management and authentication
• Workflow engine and business process management : DCWorkflow, CPSWorkflow, Z3 worklow engine
• Document lifecycle management : versionning, workflow integration, translations, etc.
• Users notification and presence framework (like in CPSSubscriptions) with email, portal, sms, jabber, or whatever support :-)
• Collaboration features : comments, forums, mail integration, calendaring, webmail, etc.
• Migration path : Five, Zope 2.x ?

I am sure that I forget things, and think that we have to define some priorities because we won't be able to address all points :-)
Anyway, I will try to add this to the sprint page this monday to start the preparation and hope to get feedback from all people feeling involved in this effort.

Last : I'm very excited by all of this : so much fun and so big challenge ! :-) I really enjoy to see lot of majors actors the the Zope CMS world working together on the best opensource CMS ever :-)

And the sprint have to be focused on coding things, not only thinking and talking. It's time to code. :-)

(Post originally written by Eric Barroca on the old Nuxeo blogs.)