>From: "Ron Teitelbaum" <Ron at USMedRec.com>
>Reply-To: Ron at USMedRec.com, The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: "'The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list'"<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: diminishingly small number of programmers (was: 3.9 Oddities)
>Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:04:57 -0400
>
>All,
>
>So my question for the community is this: Can we start a process where we
>decide which pieces that the community needs, and find a way to help each
>other achieve those goals.  Can we move past this "Scratch your own itch"
>mentality to a more altruistic, "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours"
>philosophy?
>
>My suggestion is for us to start a proper discussion about what really 
>needs
>to change, and for us to start planning those changes.  We need to put a
>process behind what we are doing and try to commit to those changes.  We
>need a real foundation, real projects, real support, and real progress.
>Once we organize ourselves then we can talk about increasing the size of 
>our
>community.
>

Well I am certainly on board.  Once I got a little further with a few things 
I was
planning to attack the documentation situation, but really the first step 
needs to
be the organization, etc. you describe.


>Ron Teitelbaum
>President / Principal Software Engineer
>US Medical Record Specialists
>Ron at USMedRec.com