On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 04:19:46PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
On 12-06-2014, at 4:04 PM, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 02:25:37PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
The problem is that writing good help & tutorial content is hard work. Take a look on the swiki to see how several groups and individuals have tried to build tutorials and lost steam after a while. I?ve been trying to clean up and update some of it but it takes a lot of thought and a startling amount of time.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it recently, but the updates to the swiki are very good. I can now go to http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak and get an overview of Squeak, with links that quickly get me to useful content. Big improvement.
It?s a slow process - a lot of the changes to the front page I did over a year ago and some at the end of last year! I?ve tried to clean up the documentation & ?squeak books? pages, and made a start on pulling together some old and new tutorial stuff to try to make a coherent whole. It?s a huge project. More input needed.
I hope you are willing to accept a small amount of praise, glory, and gratitude in lieu of actual work.
I do think that it would be helpful to make this more directly visible from the squeak.org home page. The home page provides a nice welcome, but there is not much content behind it. It might be good if new users could quickly find their way to wiki.squeak.org.squeak.
Dave