[Seaside] elections

[stephane ducasse]

On 8 mars 07, at 14:01, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:

> Hi Ramiro,
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> Very good questions, I really do not know how big the community  
> is.  Squeak-dev has about 1500 members and it looks like a large  
> number of those do not receive mail.  I can imagine that a number  
> of people that use squeak say 9/10 are not involved enough to want  
> to be subscribed to squeak-dev.  So a guess is that there are  
> around 10 thousand squeakers.  I was happy to see that our  
> percentage was higher, but only about 1% then last year.  I have to  
> wonder how many people that signed up on squeakPeople have dropped  
> out of the community and if the 1% increase was just new members.
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> Anyway I’m doing my part on weeklysqueak.wordpress.com to bring in  
> new people.  We are getting 300-700 hits a day!

this is cool, ron! keep working on that.
I hope to release some new books before the summer (ok the fall).

> With all the developments like Croquet, Sophie, OLPC, Scratch … we  
> should be entering a new phase that will revitalize the community.



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> Happy Squeaking!
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> Ron Teitelbaum
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> Squeak News Team Member
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> Squeak Elections Team Member
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> From: seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:seaside- 
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Ramiro Diaz Trepat
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:36 AM
> To: Ron at usmedrec.com; Seaside - general discussion
> Subject: [Seaside] elections
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> I'm happy we had elections with such a fine group of candidates  
> running.  Heck, I know it is certainly not the same, but I was  
> never able to say the same about any election process here in  
> Argentina :)
> What I'm not happy about is the size of the community, we had only  
> 182 votes!  It's unbelievable insignificant...  I am a bit sad  
> about it.
> Does anybody have an estimation of how large the is the Squeak  
> community, besides the "voting" community ?
> I know that with the OLPC project, in 10 years we will have  
> miiiiiilions of young guys and gals who know how to code in  
> Smalltalk, and then.... we'll take over the world ;)
>
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