It's a busy time for Zope development. Zope 2 is in a feature freeze and all development effort is focused on finding and fixing bugs. Zope 2.0 beta 4 was released. This release fixes quite a few bugs.
People love to discuss DTML syntax.
Most people like the new syntax, though some folks would like to see minor changes. It was revealed that the syntax will probably not change, but that there may be another fully xml-compliant syntax in the future. Amos Latteier explained how to manually control the Zope ORB's object traversal process. Steve Spicklemire announced a beta 2 release of his Zieve Zope product. This package provides a fairly advanced a news system including syndication and voting.