Could we fix the web site

J J azreal1977 at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 6 20:21:55 UTC 2007


Well what do other people do?  Haskell is pretty popular these days.  Here 
is their site:
http://haskell.org



>From: Joshua Gargus <schwa at fastmail.us>
>Reply-To: 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: Re: Could we fix the web site
>Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 12:00:05 -0800
>
>Stephane makes a good point.  If we want http://squeak.org to be the  
>public face of Squeak to the outside world, then the news feeds  should 
>absolutely not appear at the very top.  Instead, the Welcome!  section 
>should come first to give a basic understanding of the entire  site. That 
>much is clear (right?  if not, why?)
>
>We could then go on to debate some more ambiguous decisions.  For  example, 
>within the news section, I would put the squeak.org-specific  "Posted News" 
>above the external "News Feeds".  However, I have other  things to do this 
>fine Saturday than to push hard on that point, or  similar ones.
>
>Happy weekend Squeaking,
>Josh
>
>
>On Jan 6, 2007, at 10:28 AM, stephane ducasse wrote:
>
>>Karl
>>
>>really I'm quite annoyed. I cannot tell you all the story behind my  mail 
>>but this is not a simple idiot remark.
>>Can't we get the welcome paragraph in the first place?
>>Should I really totally boycott Squeak?
>>Don't you understand that we are in a world where people  communicate and 
>>judge on form?
>>
>>News Feed as a title of the first item of the page that describes  squeak 
>>is not a smart choice. For somehow not knowing at all
>>what squeak is about and that does not really care about getting  involved 
>>but just want to give a glance.
>>
>>Then there are 5 typos in the following text. So the fact that we  do not 
>>control (or may be somebody edited the text and the list by  hand)
>>  what is published there would push us to be cautious and not put  it up 
>>front.
>>
>>	"Croquet Edit and Create 3d Objects
>>Howard Stearns reciently replyed to a question from Mathieu. I  thought 
>>I’d reporduce his response here. Howard give a lot of very  good 
>>information about Croquet support for third party tools...."
>>
>>So what I suggest is to swap the welcome and the news feeds. I  think that 
>>this is important.
>>
>>Stef
>>
>>On 6 janv. 07, at 18:53, Karl wrote:
>>
>>>stephane ducasse wrote:
>>>>Hi karl
>>>>
>>>>my point is about the place of the news on the web site. I think  that 
>>>>we need something that anybody (and certainly someone
>>>>evaluating me can understand). When people click on my cv on the  squeak 
>>>>web site, it should be great.
>>>>And the news section should not be the top items. Or I can remove  all 
>>>>the links I have on my sites and cv to squeak.org but this
>>>>would be sad because imagine a person not knowing anything about  squeak 
>>>>going to the site and reading the first paragraph right now.
>>>The first paragraph is about the OLPC which has Squeak as part of  it's 
>>>software. I would consider that a very big news item.
>>>The frontpage got very static and nobody updated it and nobody  wants to 
>>>lead the web team so this was a good solution for us,  since a webpage 
>>>that newer changes is a dead webpage, at least in  my book.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Stef
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>>>>>The news feed is from news.squeak.org so if you join the news  team you 
>>>>>will be able to post directly.
>>>>
>>>>I do not want. I have nothing against news and I have nothing to  say.
>>>I find that hard to believe ;-)
>>>Karl
>>>>
>>>>>Typos and other standards of posting to the news feed should  probably 
>>>>>be addressed to the news team.
>>>>>Karl
>>>>>
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