Given that it seems developers will not use an all-in-one image, I thought Michael's "Taste of Squeak" idea was awesome - bundle some of the coolest apps together to get a new user hooked on Squeak's power, and they will be willing to put in the extra effort to get a standard download.
The exchange between Michael and Ian in the former thread (A little 4.1 press coverage):
Michael Davies-2 wrote:
The great thing about the one-click image is that it's such a powerful way to get people hooked. If you've got, say, a Mandelbrot generator that you want to show to people, it's great to be able to drop it into a one-click image, put it and an appealing image on your blog and say to the world "just download it and run it, it works identically on Windows, OS X and Linux, oh and if you want to understand how it works, the source code's included, oh and it's got a powerful development environment in there as well". People can then get a taste for the Squeak environment and perhaps explore the development tools without even caring that there's an "image" there. Once you've captured their interest and they start thinking about using Squeak themselves, they'll be more willing to put in that little bit of effort to understand what images and sources and changes and FFI and DLLs and VMs and changesets and mczs and packages all mean.
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perhaps there should be a "Taste of Squeak" one-click image based on the 4.1 release, with a few of the more appealing packages pre-installed - a combination of 4.1's un-threatening UI and in-image help, with some of Edgar's FunSqueak ideas could be really attractive.
Ian Trudel-2 wrote:
One may argue the benefit from having a Mandelbrot generator is that people can then look into the code. They may or may not. Your guess is as good as mine. Or, for example, we could instead include some games (SameGame, Tetris, etc) along with the famous Laser Game tutorial (at least a link but preferably in HelpSystem).
“Play games, make games!”