I agree that the Squeak.org page should not give way to the swikis.

It seems to me that the primary complaint is that the front page appears 
to be unchanging and that the site is likewise so.

Possibly a "This site was updated on <Date>." could be added somewhere 
on the front page. Possibly having version alpha,beta, stable version 
and last updated info on there also.

This would at least indicate to casual viewers that there is life and 
activity on the website. Thus indicating life in the community and language.

Just some thoughts.

Jimmie Houchin


Doug Way wrote:
> 
> Marcus Denker wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:35:20PM +1000, Russell Allen wrote:
>>
>>> And then, just go our merry way with the most democratic homepage of any
>>> language :) :)
>>>
>>> The only problem that I can see is the question of hosting - does minnow
>>> have the capacity to serve out the traffic that squeak.org gets? 
>>> Alternatively, does the machine squeak.org is currently on have the
>>> ability to run a swiki?
>>>
>>> I am happy to help out with any of this process.
>>>
>>> Comments?
>>
>>
>> I wouldn't like to go that far... there are strange people out 
>> there... imagine a story about Squeak gets posted to slashdot. (And 
>> that will happen some time in the future). With only an editable Wiki 
>> as squeak.org, we will
>> have problems. Vandalism would be one, load is another...
>>
>> It may be good to move more content to the wiki and manage it there, but
>> I'd think we should keep at least some pages as static html. (And we 
>> should keep a good layout: The Wiki layout doesn't look as good
>> as the front page we have IMHO)
>>
>>        Marcus
> 
> 
> 
> I agree with Marcus' comments.  I think the opening page for squeak.org, 
> at least, should remain a static html page.
> 
> We should have more integrated links from squeak.org to various Swiki 
> pages, though.  One good example would be to have a prominent "Latest 
> News" link from the squeak.org frontpage to the "News" page on the 
> Swiki.  This would let people easily see what recent activity has been 
> going on in the Squeak world.
> 
> - Doug Way
>   Detroit, MI