> > I think we (the Zope community) should try to be clearer in telling > newcomers what the 'entry requirements' are. >
My preference is to "lie" about the complexity. Newcomers are welcoming it much more then. Because if you say it is easy people will blame themselfs if they get stuck and to avoid embarrasment they will try a little harder. Try giving someone a logic puzzle and say "it's dirt easy, it'll take you 2 minutes" and they'll try really hard. If you say "don't bother because you need a basketballsized brain to do" they will give up and neither learn nor attempt. Let's keep the fluff around the meat welcoming. So instead of "You must have previous knowledge of XHTML 1.0" we can say "Previous experience of HTML will help understanding how ZPT's work but it's not a requirement" -- Peter Bengtsson, work www.fry-it.com home www.peterbe.com hobby www.issuetrackerproduct.com _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
