The next release of the Zope Book will be the "2.7 Edition". It is currently hosted at http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition . It has no timeframe yet. If you want to sign up to help, please send email to chrism@plope.com .

The plan should be for people to:

• take ownership of a chapter or two
• address all the comments in the chapter and get rid of comments in places you've addressed.
• update any material that is wrong wrt to differences between 2.6 and 2.7.

The "prize" for taking ownership and updating two complete chapters is your name as a coauthor on the front page (as before ;-).

Note that as an author you can use cadaver or WebDrive or WebFolders or KDE DAV or whatever to get to the Zope Book on plope.com via the DAV source por, e.g. dav://plope.com:11980/newplone/Books/2_7Edition or webdav://plope.com:11980/newplone/Books/2_7Edition or "open http://plope.com:11980/newplone/Books/2_7Edition as a Web Folder".

Here are the current signups on a per-chapter basis:

 1      Preface                                    (Jens Vagelpohl - finished)

 2      Introducing Zope                           (Dario Lopez-Kästen - finished)

 3      Zope Concepts and Architecture             (Jens Vagelpohl - finished)

 4      Installing and Starting Zope               (Peter Sabaini - finished)

 5      Object Orientation                         (Jens Vagelpohl - finished)

 6      Using The Zope Management Interface        (jake@zopezone.com - in progress)

 7      Using Basic Zope Objects                   (Peter Sabaini - finished)

 8      Acquisition                                (Tres Seaver - finished)

 9      Basic DTML                                 (jake@zopezone.com - in progress)

 10     Using Zope Page Templates                  (Yvo Schubbe - finished)

 11     Creating Basic Zope Applications           (Yvo Schubbe - in progress)

 12     Users and Security                         (Thomas Reulbach - in progress)

 13     Advanced DTML                              (unclaimed)

 14     Advanced Page Templates                    (Thomas Reulbach - in progress)

 15     Advanced Zope Scripting                    (Peter Sabaini - finished)

 16     Zope Services                              (Peter Sabaini - in progress)

 17     Searching and Categorizing Content         (RobertR - in progress)

 18     Relational Database Connectivity           (Andreas Jung - in progress)

 19     Virtual Hosting Services                   (Tres Seaver - finished)

 20     Sessions                                   (David Hassalevris - finished)

 21     Scalability and ZEO                        (Jens Vagelpohl - finished)

 22     Managing Zope Objects Using External Tools (Bakhtiar Hamid)

 23     Extending Zope                             (unclaimed)

 24     Maintaining Zope                           (Chris McDonough - not started)

 25     Appendix A: DTML Reference                 (David Siedband - in progress)

 26     Appendix B: API Reference                  (Paul Winkler - in progress)

 27     Appendix C: Zope Page Templates Reference  (Thomas Reulbach - in progress)

 28     Appendix D: Zope Resources                 (Jens Vagelpohl - finished)

 29     Appendix E: DTML Name Lookup Rules         (Jens Vagelpohl - finished)

 X      New chapter: Basic Zope Scripting          (Yvo Schubbe - finished)

Here are additional tasks:

 - backport some 2.7 edition changes to 2.6 book   (unclaimed)

 - new chapter: comparison between ttw and         (Dario Lopez-Kasten - unknown)
   disk-based dev.   

 - finish work on Backtalk chapter TOCs            (Paul Winkler - finished)
   Let's update BackTalk and CMFBackTalk to 
   latest CVS and give it a whirl!

 - perform overall cleanup/editing duties          (Jean Jordaan - 
                                                    blocked on chapter updates)

 - incorporate some of John Whitener's changes     (Yvo Schubbe - as part of chapter 11)
   ("the lost chapter")  

 - migration of various DTML examples to ZPT       (Yvo will do for chapter 11, 
                                                    need auditing in other book sections)

 - Add to or rewrite the Contributors section      (Jens Vagelpohl)
   in the Preface 
   This can only be done once they are all known, 
   after the editing tasks are done.

 - some bit explaining how requests                (unclaimed)
   equate to zodb transactions and what
   transactions are, etc.