[Z3lab] http://www.z3lab.org

Julien Anguenot ja at nuxeo.com
Wed May 18 13:26:55 CEST 2005


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Lennart Regebro wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
> 
>> Stefane Fermigier wrote:
>>
>>> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>>
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>>> What I like about the content of the site, as it is, is the goal
>>>>> statement: creating an ECMS.  If it implies doing experiments to
>>>>> achieve
>>>>> this, it's OK, but it has to be goal-driven. It's just a matter of
>>>>> setting the goal before the means.
>>
>>
>>
>>>> Which begs the question why have a separate name (z3lab) in the URL
>>>> if z3ecm is the only goal of the site.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> z3ecm is the current goal.
>>>
>>> z3erp, z3crm, z3bpm, z3pki, etc. might be future goals someday (but
>>> z3ecm is already a big task, don't you think :) ).
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, z3ecm is more than big enough. Okay, so this means that the z3lab
>> is envisioned as a platform to work on advanced Zope 3 based software
>> components.
>>
>> Sorry to keep coming back to branding, marketing and project goals
>> issues, but this is not just about the name of things, but also about
>> the impression we want to give to everybody. It's about our internal
>> and external communication about the actual goals of the project(s).
>> There needs to be some community understanding of, and consensus on,
>> the story:
>>
>> * the z3lab is ...
>>
>> * and z3ecm, which is ..., is part of this, because ...
>>
>> This becomes especially ipmortant when you get into statements like:
>>
>> * company X is part of z3lab
>>
>> * company X contributes to z3ecm
>>
>> Right now nobody seems to quite know/agree upon what the z3lab is,
>> what the goal is, what it means to contribute or 'be part of', etc. We
>> need to do something about this, if we even decide to keep this name,
>> which does have the drawback in that it sounds 'experimental'. Though
>> of course this could be mitigated easily enough by giving ECM its
>> separate website when it's mature enough.
> 
> 
> Exactly my worries. As usual Martijn is better at putting words to them
> than me.
> 

Still here we are...

Don't you guys have some more interesting stuffs do do than still
feeding a thread about naming / branding / marketing or whatever...?
c'mon !

	J.

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