Ok, there have been some feedback about Squeakworld but not that much yet. A few people have
volunteered for different things - I will get back to each and every one of you, all your emails
are saved! - and there have been some discussion on the list about .org vs. .com and also the
necessity of "yet another Squeak site" etc. Almost all responses have been very positive so it
feels good!

Let's get down to some creative business.

To jumpstart this, here is a list of possible content. Note the word "possible" - I want us to
chop this down to a carefully selected minimum to start with! Then we can grow later on.

I have been trying to find inspiration from some other OpenSource projects and accompanying sites
(Javaworld, Linuxworld, Mozillazine, Python.org, 32bitsonline, Mozilla.org and others) and this is
what I came up with for starters, also added some ideas from Stefan Matthias Aust - I like his way
of coming up with funky names for the different sections - please add more suggestions and then we
will try to distill it (I will collect any extra suggestions and recompile this list later on):

Squeak facts - What is Squeak? A compact but complete presentation of Squeak, related technology
and the community

Editorial - What's happening "at large" in Squeakland? Rotating writers perhaps?

Articles - A growing library of articles, both technical and others

Columns - Writers that write regularly, any takers? :-)

Alphaville - Tiny articles on bleeding edge stuff under development. Short info on what it is and
how to get it.

Knee deep in Morphic - Practitioner's reports

Showoffs - Continually updated descriptions (almost showcases) on some Squeak
projects/applications

Jungledrum - Condensed writeups (is that the word?) capturing discussions on the list. This was
also mentioned by someone else on the list.

Polls - We could use polls to guide us in our decisions for developing Squeak?

Squeak news - Well, I think it will suffice with a timestamped list on the front page, at least
for now!

Heard on the net - Like Linuxworld has (Net news). Simple and usercontributed, see
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/common/rslSubmit.php

Screenshots - It always attracts people, and it is fun to see what Squeak can look like!
Usercontributed.

Downloads - A simple catalog of links that actually points to downloadable files (on other
servers, typically). Short description and link to homepage. Editable by users - typically the
owners of the downloads add their own links. Meant as the linkplace to go to when you just want
that new VM or whatever. I do not think there is any point in duplicating more general efforts
like dmoz.org etc. (see below), but having a good "download links" place is nice.

Squeak resources - Just as Mozillazine has done, I think we should proxyify/mirror dmoz.org
instead of building a catalog of our own, what do you think?


And other stuff
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Anyone out there that would like to whip up some graphics for the site? Let me know - it is not my
thing. Personally I really like Mozillazines "minimalistic" look using soft colours, HTML tables
and some graphic headings to spiff it up. And Linuxworld is also nice but Javaworld does not do it
for me. :-)

There have been some discussion about Comanche etc. and I really would like to base the site on
Comanche and Swiki perhaps the same way as CSL have been doing. I will start by rigging it up and
then we will see what happens.

Stephen Pair has also graciously offered to host Squeakworld at Swiki.net (many many thanks!) and
while it is tempting I think we (?) would like to have a machine that we can do whatever we like
with, for example - adding cool behaviour to Squeakworld using Comanche/Squeak and so on.

But thanks again Stephen - perhaps we can come to you for some tricky questions later on? I
believe that you are probably the most experienced using Comanche "for real".

regards, Göran


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Göran Hultgren, goran.hultgren at bluefish.se
icq#:6136722, GSM: +46 709 472152, http://www.bluefish.se
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you. Then you win." -- Gandhi

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