Hi -

The question whether the title harvesting party is appropriate or not is 
  indeed a very interesting question. I won't speak for others but 
personally speaking I think the title "harvesting party" sounds like a 
meeting for harvesters, e.g., it has a feeling of being exclusive. When 
I first saw it I actually interpreted it as a hint not to add to the 
noise on the channel (e.g., more like "please stay out because we have 
important things to discuss and we need the channel").

Because of this, I do like "Squeak Chat" a *lot* more since it's 
inclusive - you are free to chat about everything which may include 
items on the harvesting list. Indeed I would go further than that - I'd 
try to invite guests to each chat (preferredly those that many Squeakers 
know and may want to asks questions) perhaps even giving a talk and a 
tour of parts of the system.

Cheers,
   - Andreas


stéphane ducasse wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I discussed with ken about the fact that the harvesting party emails  
> are counter-productive
> and that I would like to see them rename as SqueakOnline, SqueakChat.
> 
> The main problem is that right now the email gives the impression  that 
> something
> is happening but NOTHING happen in the harvesting. (alex started to  
> harvest a bit
> and me too) but beside that this is not during the parties and now  
> nothing happen.
> 
> So I would prefer that you realize that if you think that if  something 
> is happening
> this is totally wrong.
> 
> I could not convince ken and he asked me to ask you to react. So please
> let him know that this is not productive to let people think that  some 
> progress
> are made to include fixes and enh when nothing happen.
> 
> I think that the voices of the previous harvesters are important: so  
> marcus, doug,
> mike, yoshiki, bert let us know.
> 
> 
> Note that I have nothing against the chat over irc because this is a  
> cool idea.
> But right now, it gives the wrong message
> 
> Stef
> 
>