We (as in the All Powerful and MightyBoard) are intending to produce some more nice enamel Squeak badges as fund raising items. The previous batch I did a few years ago proved very popular and we hope that offering them again will help fill the Foundation Coffers.
I'm going to actually fund the initial purchase and hope that enough sell to at least cover most of those costs. This Request For Volunteers is seeking a few people that can help with fulfilling orders. I propose mailing a batch to each pinhead team member in, hopefully, several different parts of the world so that local postage will suffice for most orders.
Volunteers will need to be able and willing to store some badges, obtain small padded envelopes or small boxes, mail them to supporters, submit their expenses and receive reimbursement by paypal.
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I'm willing to assist. I'm in Southern Kentucky, USA so somewhat centrally located (if rather easterly) in the US.
Ken
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 11:49 -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
We (as in the All Powerful and MightyBoard) are intending to produce some more nice enamel Squeak badges as fund raising items. The previous batch I did a few years ago proved very popular and we hope that offering them again will help fill the Foundation Coffers.
I'm going to actually fund the initial purchase and hope that enough sell to at least cover most of those costs. This Request For Volunteers is seeking a few people that can help with fulfilling orders. I propose mailing a batch to each pinhead team member in, hopefully, several different parts of the world so that local postage will suffice for most orders.
Volunteers will need to be able and willing to store some badges, obtain small padded envelopes or small boxes, mail them to supporters, submit their expenses and receive reimbursement by paypal.
tim
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Our squeak entry in wikipedia is looking a bit thin!
Also for those who are writing tutorials, can you, or would you want to, match this
http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
cheers
Keith
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Am Jan 17, 2007 um 21:45 schrieb Keith Hodges:
Our squeak entry in wikipedia is looking a bit thin!
Also for those who are writing tutorials, can you, or would you want to, match this
"Matching" this is impossible. A talented writer passionate about Squeak might write something similar. Not sure we have one in the community - I for one miss Jim Benson, who had a very distinct style to his writing:
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1248
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On 17-Jan-07, at 12:54 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
"Matching" this is impossible. A talented writer passionate about Squeak might write something similar. Not sure we have one in the community - I for one miss Jim Benson, who had a very distinct style to his writing:
Yes, Jim is/was quite the writer. We still have Dan Schafer though, who's no lightweight as an author. And Avi writes good papers/talks/ etc. Even I can put together a paragraph or two on occasion.
Like anything else in the world of community software (or anything else) it comes down to somebody with passion, somebody with talent and somebody with time. They don't necessarily have to be the same single person. If you're passionate but feel you lack talent, be the team cheerleader, editor, manager, whatever. If you lack time, do a little bit and let the team editor munge it into the whole. The website and the swiki are ideal places for people that can write but only a little at a time, by the way. Even simply scanning the swiki and getting rid of obviously wrong or out of date stuff and spammed pages is a valuable service.
It's *our* system. *We* get to do it.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim C for sinking, java for drinking, Smalltalk for thinking
Talking about fund raising, what are the plans for spending the money on? I think it would be much easier to convince people of donating if they knew what the money is going to be used for and then see a concrete result.
Cheers, Adrian
On Jan 17, 2007, at 20:49 , tim Rowledge wrote:
We (as in the All Powerful and MightyBoard) are intending to produce some more nice enamel Squeak badges as fund raising items. The previous batch I did a few years ago proved very popular and we hope that offering them again will help fill the Foundation Coffers.
I'm going to actually fund the initial purchase and hope that enough sell to at least cover most of those costs. This Request For Volunteers is seeking a few people that can help with fulfilling orders. I propose mailing a batch to each pinhead team member in, hopefully, several different parts of the world so that local postage will suffice for most orders.
Volunteers will need to be able and willing to store some badges, obtain small padded envelopes or small boxes, mail them to supporters, submit their expenses and receive reimbursement by paypal.
tim
tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Rules for Optimization: 1. Don't; 2. (for experts only) Don't Yet
On 1/17/07, Adrian Lienhard adi@netstyle.ch wrote:
Talking about fund raising, what are the plans for spending the money on?
Valid question. At the moment, we have higher and higher fixed operating expenses: - box2.squeakfoundation.org. - we want another box quite likely for fail-over and other reasons. - incorporation of SqueakFoundation with quite some up-front costs and some recurring yearly costs (publishing accounts and stuff, methinks).
Then, if we really want to make a difference, we need to build up a little warchest so we can start supporting people (if not actually paying, maybe by donating/lending hardware, stuff like that) in extending Squeak. Also - I'm thinking that promotional activities, showing off Squeak and all the "products" built on it like Dabble, Croquet, Scratch, ... - inplaces like maybe OOPSLA etcetera might help raise awareness, grow the crowd, and make things a lot easier. We're still a very tiny group, with very limited time, and that is something we need to work on. Lots of ideas have been discussed over the years on this list, and they're all good ideas :).
Sign me up for Europe (if others want to take chunks out of "my" bit of the world, fine, I'll just be the default for unclaimed territory :-))
On 1/17/07, tim Rowledge tim@rowledge.org wrote:
We (as in the All Powerful and MightyBoard) are intending to produce some more nice enamel Squeak badges as fund raising items. The previous batch I did a few years ago proved very popular and we hope that offering them again will help fill the Foundation Coffers.
OK, I have volunteers for Europe, the US and southern Americas, which probably adequately covers out needs.
As for what we need money for - well Cees pointed out the running expenses of the various machines we maintain. Without keeping that expenditure covered we're in trouble so that has to come first. After that it would be nice to be able to support a slightly more 'official' presence at some of the shows; perhaps even a booth or two, even just some 'Camp Squeak' banners to literally wave the flag. If we can raise more substantial amounts of money so that we can make actual, real, financial support offers to people doing significant works then that would be fabulous. It would be wonderful to be so flush with dosh that we could employ Bryce to do Exupery, Avi to do Seaside, Craig to do spoon, me to be wonderful, etc etc etc. Anyone willing and able to commit a few hundred thousand euros a year should please contact me right away.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Any program that runs right is obsolete.
Tim,
Have you let these volunteers know? I guess I'm wondering whether I'm one of them, and if so, what the next steps are.
Ken
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 11:57 -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
OK, I have volunteers for Europe, the US and southern Americas, which probably adequately covers out needs.
As for what we need money for - well Cees pointed out the running expenses of the various machines we maintain. Without keeping that expenditure covered we're in trouble so that has to come first. After that it would be nice to be able to support a slightly more 'official' presence at some of the shows; perhaps even a booth or two, even just some 'Camp Squeak' banners to literally wave the flag. If we can raise more substantial amounts of money so that we can make actual, real, financial support offers to people doing significant works then that would be fabulous. It would be wonderful to be so flush with dosh that we could employ Bryce to do Exupery, Avi to do Seaside, Craig to do spoon, me to be wonderful, etc etc etc. Anyone willing and able to commit a few hundred thousand euros a year should please contact me right away.
tim
tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Any program that runs right is obsolete.
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