Hi all
Last week I got an excellent chat with James Robertson from VisualWorks. He started a sentence that way:
"if you want to increase the visibility of Squeak..."
Then I was thinking ok UI, Widgets, packages.....
and not at all
he told me that we need bloggers.
I should say that I was quite surprised....and he explained to me and I'm convinced now. So if one or two of you would like to - have your own blog - push the mailing announce into a blog -...
Please think about it.
Stef
Can you expand these idea? Why bloggers will help us? I have a blog too, but I doesn't think something like Python, Ruby and Linux get attention thanks to blogs...(that diary was very little used in the Linux days...) I cannot figure exactly how this can help... :)
stéphane ducasse ha scritto in data 25/08/2005 9.22:
Hi all
Last week I got an excellent chat with James Robertson from VisualWorks. He started a sentence that way:
"if you want to increase the visibility of Squeak..."Then I was thinking ok UI, Widgets, packages.....
and not at all
he told me that we need bloggers.
I should say that I was quite surprised....and he explained to me and I'm convinced now. So if one or two of you would like to - have your own blog - push the mailing announce into a blog -...
Please think about it.
Stef
On Aug 25, 2005, at 5:03 AM, Giovanni Giorgi wrote:
Can you expand these idea? Why bloggers will help us? I have a blog too, but I doesn't think something like Python, Ruby and Linux get attention thanks to blogs...(that diary was very little used in the Linux days...) I cannot figure exactly how this can help... :)
I think the value of blogs for promoting Squeak and Seaside extend beyond simple advertising. To me, it's kind of a "hey, over here, we're a vibrant group of developers" type of advertising.
Blogs were what got me to ditch Zope in favor of Ruby on Rails. I read a tiny bit about Rails on a Python blog I read regularly at the time, looked into it a little more, and found myself in the middle of a sea of blogs on Rails.
I'm sure everyone has had the experience of reading about an open source project and thinking, "finally, I found the solution to my problem." Then after digging a little more finding out there haven't been any apparent updates in recent history, the project's website updated a year ago, and generally there are no other signs the project is still alive and kicking.
So you lament this fact to another developer who first looks at you funny, then says, "there's TONS of activity, you just need to subscribe to the mailing list and check out the project's CVS HEAD".
It's that kind of obscurity that an active group of bloggers help fight.
-Dane
stéphane ducasse a écrit :
Hi all
Last week I got an excellent chat with James Robertson from VisualWorks. He started a sentence that way:
"if you want to increase the visibility of Squeak..."Then I was thinking ok UI, Widgets, packages.....
and not at all
he told me that we need bloggers.
We already have Planet Squeak aggregating several blogs about Squeak, Croquet and Seaside : http://planetsqueak.joyful.com/
I should say that I was quite surprised....and he explained to me and I'm convinced now. So if one or two of you would like to - have your own blog - push the mailing announce into a blog -...
Please think about it.
Maybe SqueakFoundation or ESUG could provide free hosting for blogs based on Seaside and SmallBlog ?
-- oooo Dr. Serge Stinckwich OOOOOOOO Université de Caen>CNRS UMR 6072>GREYC>MAD OOESUGOO http://purl.org/net/SergeStinckwich oooooo Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)] \ / ##
We already have Planet Squeak aggregating several blogs about Squeak, Croquet and Seaside : http://planetsqueak.joyful.com/
I should say that I was quite surprised....and he explained to me and I'm convinced now. So if one or two of you would like to - have your own blog - push the mailing announce into a blog -... Please think about it.
Maybe SqueakFoundation or ESUG could provide free hosting for blogs based on Seaside and SmallBlog ?
Sure Just ask and do it :)
-- oooo Dr. Serge Stinckwich OOOOOOOO Université de Caen>CNRS UMR 6072>GREYC>MAD OOESUGOO http://purl.org/net/SergeStinckwich oooooo Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)] \ / ##
Serge Stinckwich wrote:
Maybe SqueakFoundation or ESUG could provide free hosting for blogs based on Seaside and SmallBlog ?
What would these offer that the diaries at http://people.squeakfoundation.org don't? Note that several of these are already included with other blogs at http://planet.smalltalk.org and all of them are included in http://squeak.joyful.com/planetsqueak
The diaries don't allow comments, but there are also the articles which do. Perhaps it is just a matter of letting people know what is already out there rather than creating something new?
-- Jecel
It looks like everyone that has an id on squeakpeople HAS a blog that's also syndicated on http://planet.smalltalk.org/, not that it's the only aggregator around. There's also http://planetsqueak2.joyful.com/. Also see Simon Michael's post here: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2005-August/093568.ht....
I've also got a blog at http://homepage.mac.com/smalltalker2/iblog/, but the machine with the iBlog software has been behind a very strict firewall, and will be for a while longer.
To get more exposure try http://www.technorati.com/ and http://www.pubsub.com/.
I suppose I could think of more things, but this could be a start.
At 09:22 AM 8/25/2005 +0200, stéphane wrote:
Hi all
Last week I got an excellent chat with James Robertson from VisualWorks. He started a sentence that way:
"if you want to increase the visibility of Squeak..."Then I was thinking ok UI, Widgets, packages.....
and not at all
he told me that we need bloggers.
I should say that I was quite surprised....and he explained to me and I'm convinced now. So if one or two of you would like to - have your own blog - push the mailing announce into a blog -...
Please think about it.
Stef
John Pfersich wrote:
It looks like everyone that has an id on squeakpeople HAS a blog that's also syndicated on http://planet.smalltalk.org/, not that it's the only aggregator around. There's also http://planetsqueak2.joyful.com/.
Lest there be confusion: that one aggregates squeaksources and other non-blog feeds; http://planetsqueak.joyful.com is the one with the blogs. The Related Sites section at bottom-right lists all the available "squeak planets", currently there are four.
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