On 4/22/06, stéphane ducasse ducasse@iam.unibe.ch wrote:
"squeak-newbies"
Can't get much more inviting than that, can it?
Personally, I would like to mimick patterns available in the open source community as much as possible. Which would be 'squeak-users'. Using Squeak as opposed to developing Squeak itself, which would then become the primary focus of the squeak-dev list.
Two reasons against squeak-newbies: it smells of "Xxx for Dummies", which is denigrating, and it may prevent advanced *users* of Squeak from subscribing because they clearly are not a part of the indicated target group.
Personally, I don't think there's a need for two lists. People with stupid questions will be flamed in either case (a stupid question does exist - it is when the poster clearly has not even done the most basic bit of research to solve the question by himself), and people with entry-level questions have never been flamed on squeak-dev, AFAICT.
Summarizing my position: - I am weakly not in favor of splitting squeak-dev; - If that has to happen, I am strongly against calling it squeak-newbies.