Hi there,

I am happy to announce that we have made progress
with the zope.org relaunch project. The first public
version of the new site is now available under

http://beta.zope.org

The basic idea behind the project is:

 - a minimalistic www.zope.org site giving a short
   overview about what "Zope" is - including all
   related app servers, CMSes, frameworks etc.
   which links to the related project sites (micro-site
   approach)

 - no more member contents on www.zope.org

 - the current www.zope.org will be stripped down
   to the current member contents and stuff that
   has to be preserved. www.zope.org will be
   renamed to old.zope.org later

Constructive criticism and feedback is welcome _now_ (please
use the thread on the zope-dev mailing list for discussions
and feedback).

I hope that we can fix the outstanding issues and integrate
further feedback over the next few week in order to roll
out the new site in the first half of June (2011 of course).

Many thanks to my team (doing the real work):

- Michael Haubenwaller
- Kai Mertens
- Johannes Raggam

Andreas Jung
Zope Foundation