News November 2007

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/. runs: Intel, Microsoft Despised the XO Laptop
by Klaus D. Witzel 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

For the details dial - http://mobile.slashdot.org/mobile/07/11/24/2015229.shtml Seems to mount competition as if the OLPC where one of the giant monopolists (with deep pockets) ... Cheers Klaus

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RE: Feedback for News Team - Links on Weekly Squeak
by Ron Teitelbaum 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Hi Michael, Thanks. Having the links there too is not an issue, I just wanted to make sure we were clear how they get there if we wanted to keep them. So you would vote to remove them and replace with planet.squeak.org and www.squeak.org. Should we also consider any other links like the wiki or tutorials? Maybe we should give control of those links to the web team, or just replicate the links that are on www.squeak.org now? I asked before but I'm not sure we ever got an answer. Should we include a donate link for SqF? As for removing weekly squeak articles from planet, I'm sure there are some people that only read our articles from planet.squeak.org. I'm not sure that it is confusing enough to want to separate the two. Thanks, Ron Teitelbaum > From: Michael Davies > > On Nov 15, 2007 7:43 PM, Ron Teitelbaum <Ron(a)usmedrec.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Some blog links were added to the Weekly Squeak. > > Hi Ron, > > That was me experimenting with the blog-roll function - I'm sorry to > say I wasn't aware of the function of planet.squeak.org, and so I'd > started replicating its role! My apologies to all for any confusion > caused. > > > When I asked why the only > > comment I got was that we have a blog aggregator already > > http://planet.squeak.org (which I took as a suggestion that these links > are > > not necessary) > > > > What I'd like to ask everyone is this: > > > > 1) Should the Weekly Squeak have external links on it? > > 1a) If you think we should have links what links should we have? > > 1b) What should be the criteria, and process for changing the > list? > > Interesting question - one thing I hadn't realised until you asked it > is that we don't even have a link to the Squeak homepage from > news.squeak.org at the moment! Adding that seems a good idea. > > > 2) Should we replace these links with internal links like > planet.squeak.org? > > > > It's neater to maintain the list once, so I'm happy that we should > replace what I've done with a link to planet.squeak.org. That does > raise one point though: it might be confusing if people clicked on > such a link to find it contained many articles that they had just read > on news.squeak.org. Is there any value in treating news.squeak.org and > planet.squeak.org as separate feeds - ie separating the news from the > personal articles? That would also make it possible for sites to show > headlines from both news.squeak and planet.squeak, which would help > raise the visibility of the latter. > > Cheers, > Michael

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Feedback for News Team - Links on Weekly Squeak
by Ron Teitelbaum 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Hi all, Some blog links were added to the Weekly Squeak. When I asked why the only comment I got was that we have a blog aggregator already http://planet.squeak.org (which I took as a suggestion that these links are not necessary) What I'd like to ask everyone is this: 1) Should the Weekly Squeak have external links on it? 1a) If you think we should have links what links should we have? 1b) What should be the criteria, and process for changing the list? Or: 2) Should we replace these links with internal links like planet.squeak.org? Feel free to respond on or off list. Thank you for your feedback, Ron Teitelbaum Squeak News Team Leader

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Give One. Get One. Now!!
by Ron Teitelbaum 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Hi All, This is just a reminder that you can now help the OLPC project by purchasing XO laptop's. You will give one to a child in the developing world and get one for yourself. The Give One. Get One. program is only available for a limited time so don't delay. http://news.squeak.org/2007/11/13/give-one-get-one-now/ Or go directly to: http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php Check out a cool review: http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/05/pretty-cool-nytimes-olpc-review/ Thanks, Ron Teitelbaum

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News Team Report Oct 2007
by Ron Teitelbaum 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi All, It's that time again. For the month of Oct we had 17,500 article views of http://news.squeak.org (17K is pretty good our average is around 13K) We had 3 articles with over 1000 hits: Wait for it! - The Little Book of Semaph <http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/wait-for-it-the-little-book-of -semaphores/> 1,944 Seaside 2.8 Released!! <http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/seaside-28-released/> 1,447 Dan's the Man! Check out Dan Ingalls wo <http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/dans-the-man-check-out-dan-ing alls-work-squeak-in-javascript/> 1,068 What's interesting to me is that we had hits on 149 separate articles. (28 articles with more then 50 hits) (18 articles had only 1 hit) We had at total of 16 articles published in Oct. Thank you to everyone that wrote us with ideas about things to publish. If you have some news let us know at news(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org Special thanks to our contributors: Giovanni Corriga Giovanni Giorgi Michael Davies Brad Fuller If you would like to write articles for the weekly squeak please let us know. The news team is a great place to volunteer your time. Happy Squeaking!! Ron Teitelbaum Squeak News Team Leader

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