ZopeEvaluator

An Evaluator:

Is a curious user, or a technician in a company who was appointed to evaluate Zope for their projects.
Doesn't know how Zope works or how to use it.
May not know anything about Python.
Usually is savvy with regard to web/internet technologies.
May not have any OOP background, or perhaps just Java.
May need to prepare a presentation and mockups.
May need to teach other people to use Zope.

LearnHowToUseZope

Jim

I'm not sure an evaluator would want to learn how to use Zope

Tom

Agree, he doesn't need to know how to use it, but he should get a global idea
LearnHowZopeIsUsed?
LearnWhatZopeCanDo?
CreateADemoSite?
LearnHowToCustomizeComponents?

Jim

Again, I think they want to know at a high level how this is done. I don't think they really wantto learn how to do it.

Tom

Agree, they only need to say how easy it is to customize, extend and create components
and a case-by-case selection of Goals from all other users.

Jim

I'd be careful here. I think that once they have the other goals, they are no longer evaluators.
Find some ready-to-use examples of website type

PaulT? (Jan 4, 2003 7:16 pm; Comment #1) Editor Remark Requested

The easiest thing to attract Zope Evaluator is to give him a broad list of

Web applications. (Being complex helps, because chances are that there would be not too much competition).

Examples of such applications could be (in no partucular order) :

Squishdot Blog Forum Portal LiveJournal? clone Image Album VirtualHosting Plug and Play Ecommerce Groupware for editing, say, PDF documents

Componentization of Zope ( partialy addressed by DC with Zope v 3 - great job )
Applications sell the paltform. Applications is what made Windows a success. ( that part was not really addressed by DC during last year )