News October 2005

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Out of town 10/29-02/11
by Giovanni Corriga 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

Hi, I'll be out of town, playing tourist in Rome from Oct 29th to Nov 2nd. I won't have any web connection, so I won't be able to edit and publish the next issue. So we have three options: 1) wait for me to come back home on the afternoon of 11/02. 2) publish TWS #8 before Saturday 3) someone else publishes TWS #8 on Squeak-dev, announcements and Squeakland while I'm away, and when I come back I'll publish it on Squeak People. So, what do you think? Giovanni

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Ron's article
by Giovanni Corriga 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hi, I moved Ron's article out of TWS #8 and to TWS #9. That's because the thread it referred to spans more than a week, and I'd like to give a complete summary of what has been said and done. Giovanni

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News Category in Mantis
by Giovanni Corriga 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hi list, A News category (project: Squeak) has been added to the Mantis database on http://bugs.squeak.org . We could use to keep track of the team issues, such as the one I've already added. Giovanni

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Getting the team started
by Giovanni Corriga 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi folks, It's nice to see that you already dived into the work. Thanks! I'm sending this as a starting point to get a working team structure. Roll call --------- As of this moment, there are four of us in this team: - Giovanni Corriga - Giovanni Giorgi - Klaus D. Witzel - Ron Teitelbaum plus Ken Causey which acts as the board sponsor. Tasks ----- Until we get the hang of the thing, we should concentrate just on the task of publishing The Weekly Squeak. Later we can expand to other tasks, like managing the announcements mailing list (soon to be announced), and pushing article to Slashdot-like sites. The Weekly Squeak ----------------- While the community has welcomed the Weekly Squeak news-zine, there are still some problems with it. I'll list them by priority: - editor backup: at the moment, I'm the only one editing TWS, with Giovanni Giorgi taking care of the interviews. This mean that I'm a single point of failure _and_ a bottleneck for TWS: if I'm busy, I can't add items to the work page. So I have to rush on Sunday afternoon to get the new issue out. - TWS lateness: as a result of me being alone, each TWS issue is now published 8 days after the week it should report on (that is, the TWS for the week from Oct 2nd to Oct 8th will be out on Oct 16). I'd like to reduce it to 1 or 2 days at most. - Articles and Columns: right now, TWS has just a news section. The first interview has been published as an item in that section, but I'd like to move it to it own section. I'd also like to add more columns: - more indepth articles, like the one Ron posted earlier. - more technical or historical articles - stuff like Mantis bug count, most active SqueakPeople projects, etc. - the mailing lists: ideally, TWS should be an universal news source for all Squeak-related activites. This means monitoring many mailing lists, (including Croquet's, Seaside's and the lists/discuss.sqf mailing lists), blogs, newsgroups and websites. At the moment the only mailing lists actively monitored are squeak-dev, smallwiki and squeakland. - the publishing site: I don't like publishing on the Swiki too much; I'd prefer publishing TWS somewhere else, and use the Swiki just as a backup. Proposed solutions ------------------ Here is a proposal which I'd like to discuss with you. It's a work model that should solve some of the current issues. During each week, everyone adds news items to TWS' work page ( http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5752 ). The one item posted by Klaus is a good example. After the week has ended, the editor will go through the items in the work page, adding/editing/deleting as needed, then publish the new edition as an article on SqueakPeople. If we can split the work, It won't take much time for any of us, and so we can prepare a better and quicker TWS. This process should start with TWS issue #8 (October 9th-15th) Articles and interviews will be first posted here, so that we can discuss them and decide how and when to publish them. We'll discuss other issues when the need arises. Roles ----- So, here's a list of roles which should be filled, and a proposal: editor: Giovanni C. plus backup when needed interviews: Giovanni G. articles: Klaus, Ron news items: Giovanni C., Giovanni G., Klaus, Ron. Again, this is just a proposal. I'd like to hear your opinion on this. Giovanni

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Publishing on Squeak People
by Giovanni Corriga 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi I've just published TWS #7. I was going to publish it as an article on SqueakPeople, but it turns out that SqueakPeople's HTML subset is not really compatible with the HTML used by the Swiki. Converting from a format to another would have been too tiring, so I prefered publishing the TOC as a diary entry, as usual. I will explore some alternatives. Giovanni

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Weekly Squeak Article [Henrik Gedenryd]
by Klaus D. Witzel 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

News Team, here's what I've put together what was said this week about Henrik Gedenryd. Let me have your feedback please. /Klaus P.S. don't know if you care but I suggest to not publish any email addresses but instead the hyperlink to a person's SqP page (if there is one). In the draft below I still mention email addresses for ease of reference during review. =================================================== Henrik Gedenryd passed away. While looking around the Internet for information about Henrik Gedenryd, Göran Krampe found out that [href to message]Henrik Gedenryd passed away[] in 2002 at the age of 32. Some 20 Sequeakers expressed their feelings about the sad news on the list, some of them sharing anecdotes, events and places where they happened to be together with Henrik. Markus Denker has [http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~denker/temp/aspectblt.zip]Henrik's blue book image[] available for download on his homepage. Ken G. Brown [kbrown(a)tnc.ab.ca] reported that Henrik's image comes up with [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5506&release_id=19715…] and seems to want V2 sources. Romain Robbes [romain.robbes(a)lu.unisi.ch] confirmed that the image works with recent Mac VMs. Göran Krampe strongly recommends to read Henrik's paper on [http://www.lucs.lu.se/People/Henrik.Gedenryd/Squeak/UC/UCpaper.pdf]Universal Composition[].

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News Team Proposal
by Giovanni Corriga 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Hi, This is a proposal for the creation of a new team, the News Team. It is also a call for participation in the same team. The purpose of this team is to publish news regarding Squeak development and use. It aims to provide a service to the Squeak community, highlighting anything which the Squeak users may find interesting. It will also try to promote Squeak outside its own community, by submitting articles and news items to mainstream websites such as Slashdot and OSNews. The first task of this team will be publishing The Weekly Squeak. Ideally this news-zine will come to include all the Squeak-related mailing lists, blogs etc. The SqueakViews column will remain under the Weekly Squeak banner, at least initially. So, if you are either a newcomer or experienced user, and you're interested in joining this team, please speak up and let us know you're available to help! Thanks, Giovanni

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