History for Adapt new/changed content presention

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adapt the way how new and changed content is presented to zope.org visitors

Status: IsProposal

Author

  "d2m":http://zope.org/Members/d2m

Problem

  Zope.org is experienced as a static collection of Zope related 
content and as a software/product repository. 

  - on frontpage only general/zope.inc news and product releases are 
displayed 

  - wiki changes are accessible through wiki only

  - created/changed information of 'user content' is not 
available in a usefull way through search or customized listings

    - *example*: 'Zope How-Tos': latest additions in March 2004

  - categorization of content through Subjects is not visible
in search/listings

  - changes in zope.org documents are not displayed.
creation, modification times and author infos are - in part -
visible in folder_contents, but missing from the 
'view'-templates

  - userfeedback/commenting is not a general option.
users start gathering anywhere they see a chance to speak up. *examples*:

    - http://zope.org/Members is used as a 'forum'

    - http://zope.org/Documentation/... backtalk problem

    - articles that allow comments

Proposal

  The visitor of the website experiences zope.org as driven by 
user-contributions, evolving over time. Add a new layer of access:
information is available by time, state, type and subject. 
Besides that zope.org stays as it is, a document/software repository,
available through folder structure and catalog queries.

  **conceptual prototype**: weblog software

  The website should adept concepts and methods of weblog software 
and add them to the overall information-strategy of zope.org. 
If weblog-style presentation is used or not is beyond this proposal.

  - new, modified and commented 'user content' (news, 
documentation, product release) is displayed on the frontpage 
and on the respective area head-pages. 

  - time, state, type and subject information (metadata) is used 
to create the listings.

  - any listing is also available as separate rss-feed

  - this will not affect the overall design of zope.org document
  storage

  - *possible* addition: support for user weblogs and weblog-management

  - *possible* addition: user defined/customized rss-feeds

Risks

  None

Additional Material 

  scrap-book::
    
    Zope.org's structure (as of July 2004)
  
    - (left column):
      - About Zope
      - Business
      - Documentation
      - Download
      - Developers
      - Resources
      - Zope Exits
    
    - (center column):
      - What is Zope
      - System massages area
      - Zope for...
    
    - (right column):
      - Zope.inc Advertising
      - Zope.org Member news
      - Zope.org Product news
    
    
    'dynamic' content:
    
    - time
      - created
      - modified
    
    - state
      - new
      - modified
      - comment
    
    - content type
    - subject
    - creator
    - contributors
    
    areas of 'dynamic' content:
    
    - along the lines of left/right column content
      - frontpage: summary of news/changes
      - area: summary of area news/changes/comments
    - icons signaling states (new, modified, comment)