[collective-cmfmember] Re: Membrane updates

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Martin Aspeli writes: 

> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:35:29 +0100, Jeff Kowalczyk  <jt...@ya...> wrote: 
> 
>> Martin Aspeli wrote:
>>> The use case of paying subscribers to a site is quite common. If Plone
>>> could support this easily (*especially* if it was something we could
>>> ship as a pre-configured set of objects) that would give us an obvious
>>> advantage over many CMSs I'm sure.
>> 
>> I'm not eager to standardize paid subscriber features in Plone proper.
>> PloneMall (newly in collective) will handle that ably. You'd make your
>> member content types implement PloneMall interfaces like any other.
> 
> I agree, not in the core, however having an easy to use and stable  
> solution that's easily installable would go a long way. PloneMall may be  
> overkill for many uses, if you're just selling access. The key here is to  
> make re-usable components that plug into the architecture in a sensible  
> way.

as whit mentions, all of these problems have already been thought through 
and dealt with, IMO, in the TeamSpace product.  a detailed tutorial for 
using TeamSpace to build an extranet using Plone can be found in the Samplex 
product, which is in the collective on svn.plone.org. 

i haven't had a chance to look at membrane yet, probably won't for a few 
weeks (i'm currently at burning man... check out the webcast we're producing 
at webcast.burningman.com), but i suspect that it will not be too hard to 
integrate with TeamSpace. 

 -r