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
>>Id 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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