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Welcome to Zope
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Zope is a free and open source web application server written in the
object-oriented programming language `Python <https://www.python.org>`_.
Since its release in 1998, Zope continues to grow into many distinct
applications, frameworks, libraries and tools. :doc:`world` highlights
the most important components.

Zope community projects are hosted in the `Zope Foundation
organization <https://github.com/zopefoundation>`_ on GitHub.


Overview
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What is Zope and its related projects?

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   world


Documentation
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An overview over the most important documentation resources.

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   resources


Community
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The Zope community is one of the largest and most professional
open-source communities worldwide.

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   releases
   community
   developer/index