Maybe somebody has already posted this, but if not here it is.
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/06/just_squeaking_.html
We have a blurb on the Wired website. Scratch led to Squeak. Somewhere right now people are discovering Seaside, Croquet and the OLPC (for the second time).
When the Dev team completes 3.10, I'll push to have a press release written, and then petition members of this community to en mass summit the story to Slashdot.
I would add to this plan a trick from NASA. Yesterday was the opening of a 90-day window of no-news. If you are a media outlet, the summer is the dead zone. NASA knows this and every year ensures that stories come out in the summer. This translates to a higher profile, which ensures budgets from the American Congress. They know what they are doing over there at NASA.
My point is, if the release of 3.10 could come out during this window, and not in the Fall, we have a better chance of getting Slashdoted.
Steve Jobs:
What is this? This is like doing business with a praying mantis. You get seduced, and then eaten alive afterwards?
Bill Gates:
Get real, would ya? You and I are both like guys who had this rich neighbor - Xerox - who left the door open all the time. And you go sneakin' in to steal a TV set. Only when you get there, you realize that I got there first. I got the loot, Steve! And you're yellin'? "That's not fair. I wanted to try to steal it first." You're too late.
"Pirates of Silicon Valley" 1999 (TV)
Squeak is no longer too late.
Chris Cunnington PR Team Leader
On Jun 2, 2007, at 20:26 , Chris Cunnington wrote:
Maybe somebody has already posted this, but if not here it is.
Interesting, and a funny oops :)
There was a similarly funny post (well, funny to me at least) to the OLPC dev list today by OLPC head UI designer, Eben Eliason:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2007-June/002597.html
... to which of course Alan replied, well, you just wished for Etoys ;)
Squeak is no longer too late.
Chris Cunnington PR Team Leader
Yep, we're there already ;)
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