<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>yes.</div><div><br></div><div>What's more, StackOverflow makes a reputation on you and that could be quite valuable for employment interviews or things of the matter.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the link to the seaside tag:</div><div><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/seaside">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/seaside</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jan 17, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I agree with Julian, IRC does work for Seaside. Obviously nobody has<br>time to constantly watch for incoming questions (which kind of makes<br>sense to me). In the past I tried to go in and answer open questions<br>every now and then, but that is obviously not the idea of IRC.<br><br>Note that we get quite a few questions on <a href="http://stackoverflow.com">stackoverflow.com</a> that<br>potentially have a much wider visibility in non-Smalltalk communities.<br>If a Seaside question pops up I get notified. IMHO it would give<br>Seaside more exposure if more people contributed, wrote answers,<br>commented and voted.<br><br>Lukas<br><br>On Monday, 17 January 2011, Julian Fitzell <<a href="mailto:jfitzell@gmail.com">jfitzell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I don't use IRC. I've tried it but never liked it and I find it a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">burden to follow. So I'm afraid you won't find me in there any time<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">soon...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If people want to have an IRC channel, however, that's simply a matter<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">of there being enough community interest to populate it. If there<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">isn't such interest from the community, then we should definitely<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"retire" it (not that I have any idea how one even does that :) ).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Julian<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Sebastian Sastre<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@flowingconcept.com">sebastian@flowingconcept.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">whatever.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I mean: we failed to create a culture of being friendly one to each other on IRC. We don't even show signals of even wanting that. So retiring it will have zero impact.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Actually retiring it may have 2 cents of positive value (because of expectations).<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The email list works just fine but it's too formal for certain on the fly questions that exists in every community. The thing is that the email is just too "on the record" to make people comfortable to ask stupid questions (that everybody have from time to time and are perfectly normal, even fun and should be asked harmlessly)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">But if nobody gives a shit about an environment comfortable for that, then it has sense to retire it so new people at least isn't confused about having the hope of get an answer when they are asking there<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Ken Causey wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I wonder if you are aware that there is an IRC channel for Seaside? If<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">you have any interest in the viability of IRC for support and discussion<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">of Seaside I suggest it's time you start using this channel.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Weeks have gone by with no discussion with the exception of questions<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">that go completely unanswered. Having a channel that is not used is<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">merely misguiding to those who check opensource IRC channels for support<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">options. If this channel is not used more soon I strongly suggest that<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">it simply be deleted as it is hurting more than it helps in my opinion.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Ken<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">P.S. Yes, I hang out there but it has been years since I have used<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Seaside and I'm there primarily to try to keep some connection with the<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">current status of this project (much the same reason I'm still on this<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">mailing list). I'm of little or no use in helping other users with<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Seaside at this point much less the common questions regarding Pier, for<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">example.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">seaside mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org">seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside">http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside</a><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">seaside mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org">seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside">http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">seaside mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org">seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside">http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br>-- <br>Lukas Renggli<br><a href="http://www.lukas-renggli.ch">www.lukas-renggli.ch</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>seaside mailing list<br>seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org<br>http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>