Outerthought is organizing the Cocoon GetTogether on 19 November 2002 (near Ghent in Belgium).

July 2002 New Riders has just published Cocoon: Building XML Applications written by our very own Carsten Ziegeler, release coordinator for the Cocoon project, and Matthew Langham, leader of the open-source group at S&N AG of Paderborn, Germany. You can download several free chapters at the New Riders web site. Weighing in at over 500 pages, the book is a vital new resource for the Cocoon community. We congratulate and thank Carsten, Matthew, and New Riders for their excellent work!

Cocoon has two promising and complementary wiki efforts underway.

• Cocoon Wiki focuses on content development for the Cocoon project. It is designed to facilitate document development and collaboration from all levels of Cocoon users. Documents include FAQs, snippets, how-tos, tutorials, RTs (random thoughts), dreams, surveys, and more. The preliminary focus of this the wiki is to serve as a documentation "breeding ground," where docs can "grow" until mature enough to become official cvs docs. However, it already represents a lively and valid document resource in its own right.
• Wikiland is an ongoing development effort to build a Cocoon-based wiki architecture. Wikiland features a Cocoon dictionary as the pretext to use, test and develop the wiki. The project is seeking Cocoon-oriented developers to further its development. For more information, see the Wikiland home page.