The world of Zope
Zope is a free and open-source, object-oriented web application server written in the Python programming language. Since its release in 1998 Zope continued to grow and evolve into many distinct applications, frameworks, libraries and tools. This page will help you better find your way around the Zope universe.
The different Zope application servers focus on content management (CMS) and component architecture (CA). They evolved over time, using Zope 2 and Zope 3 as the base to build on.
Zope
Zope is a Python-based application server for building secure and highly scalable web applications.
Plone
A powerful, flexible Content Management solution that is easy to install, use and extend. Plone lets non-technical people create and maintain information using only a web browser. Perfect for web sites or intranets, Plone offers superior security without sacrificing extensibility or ease of use
Silva
Silva is a powerful CMS for organizations that manage multiple or complex websites. Content is stored in clean and futureproof XML, independent of layout and presentation. Features include versioning, workflow system, integral visual editor, content reuse, sophisticated access control, multi-site management, extensive import/export facilities, fine-grained templating, and hi-res image storage and manipulation. Silva has an open source (BSD) license.
Zope 3
Zope 3 evolved from Zope 2 and improves the development experience through the use of a component architecture.
Grok
Grok is a web application framework for Python developers. It is aimed at both beginners and very experienced web developers. Grok has an emphasis on agile development. Grok is easy and powerful.
Building blocks for application develoment ... All applications built on Zope2 or Zope3 can be used as frameworks for developing new apps again.
CMF
The Content Management Framework (CMF) for Zope provides a powerful, tailorable platform for building content management applications.
ZTK
The Zope Toolkit (ZTK) is a set of libraries intended for reuse by projects to develop web applications or web frameworks. It is developed by the contributors of the Zope Foundation. The whole collection of ZTK libraries are used in various web frameworks and web application servers. Two of these are managed by the Zope project: Zope 3 and Grok. If you install one of these systems, you will get the ZTK along with it automatically.
Five
Five is a Zope 2 product that allows you to integrate Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2, today. After its start as an independent product Five is now fully integrated with Zope 2.
BlueBream
BlueBream is a web framework written in the Python programming language. BlueBream is free/open source software, owned by the Zope Foundation, licensed under the Zope Public License (BSD like, GPL compatible license). BlueBream was previously known as Zope 3.
Repoze
Repoze integrates Zope technologies with WSGI and reusable Python middleware.
These tools were developed for Zope and are integral part of each Zope project. Yet they can be used independently with any Python based project.
ZODB
Zope Object Database - a native object database for Python
The Zope Object Database (ZODB) provides seamless object persistence in Python. It gets rid of requiring a relational database for your object-oriented application and provides you with a powerful and safe object store: persistence, transactions, scalability, and more.
Buildout
Buildout is a Python-based build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts, some of which may be non-Python-based. It lets you create a buildout configuration and reproduce the same software later.
Source code repository and bug tracker
SVN
Zope public subversion repository provides read-only and selective write access to the source code for Zope's and related projects.
Bug tracking
Launchpad is an open source suite of tools that help people and teams to work together on software projects. Launchpad is built with Zope 3.
PyPI
Zope projects @ Python Package Index
A Zope community effort

Hub site to Zope community documentation projects - Sphinx based.

Hub site to Zope community wiki documentation - ZWiki based.
Zopistas - get in touch, get/provide help, read/create news, ...
Mailing Lists

Main Zope related mailing list collection.
IRC

freenode.net hosts lots of Zope and Zope products/application related IRC channels
Bug tracking

Launchpad is an open source suite of tools that help people and teams to work together on software projects. Launchpad is built with Zope 3.
Planets
Planets collect news related to a special topic, programming language or application.
Google Wave

The next big thing in collaborative computing.
The Zope Foundation has the goal to promote, maintain, and develop the Zope platform. It does this by supporting the Zope community.

Our community includes the open source community of contributors to the Zope software, contributors to the documentation and web infrastructure, as well as the community of businesses and organizations that use Zope.
The Zope Foundation is the copyright holder of the Zope software and many extensions and associated software. The Zope Foundation also manages the zope.org website, and manages the infrastructure for open source collaboration.
What's left is on the zope.org website ...

Legacy Zope.org members area

Legacy product overview and search