Hi Brad, 

Those are great ideas. It's a very inspiring list of actions to take. I live
here in Toronto, and would be happy to help facilitate any or all of those
at Smalltalk Solutions. I'll be seeing Bob Nemec, head of STIC and an
organizer of the Smalltalk Solutions conference, next week. He's a great
guy, and I think he'd be happy to assist us in this effort. Frankly, I can't
speak highly enough about Bob Nemec, and would be happy to talk to him about
this. 

(Granted, there are people with more authority than myself for this, but I
hang out with him at his coding night at Northwater Capital over a
conference room table every single month.)

Chris




On 1/23/07 11:55 AM, "Brad Fuller" <brad at bradfuller.com> wrote:

> Brad Fuller wrote:
>> bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk wrote:
>>> Giuseppe Luigi Punzi writes:
>>>> Some months ago, I propose something like this to the Lazarus/FreePascal
>>>> community, but only I started.
>>>> 
>>>> You can read about this here: http://lordzealon.com/blog/?p=42#more-42
>>>> 
>>>> The last link (the wiki) was changed and is this:
>>>> http://promoting-fpc.lordzealon.com/
>>> 
>>> We already have a news and a web team. I'm sure both of them are
>>> interested in improving Squeak's PR. A simpler option might be for PR
>>> people to join both find out what these teams are doing and help out.
>> 
>> I believe that is the opposite of what should happen. A PR team should
>> create a consistent message to promote squeak. The web team and news
>> team are the vehicles on which to carry the message.
> 
> The (hopefully-to-be-formed) PR Team could target the Smalltalk
> Solutions Conf. (STC) (http://www.lwnwexpo.plumcom.ca/smalltalk.cfm)
> coming up in April. For example:
> 
> * A press release about squeak including any newly released squeak
> application or update could be made available around the time of the
> conference. (the PR team would need to develop relationships with those
> who could publicize the press release. But, this is easy.)
> 
> * The team could work with speakers that are using squeak as their
> dev-platform. If they are announcing their talk, maybe the team could
> develop a message that would be included in all announcements and PR for
> seminars. Maybe they could say a little blurb (a consistent message)
> about how great squeak is at their talk.
> 
> * the squeak website could announce these STC talks and highlight the
> speakers and provide links to the applications on squeak.org.
> 
> * Maybe there could be a link back to squeak.org from the STC website.
> 
> * The team could determine if it is beneficial to be a sponsor. It'd be
> nice to see the squeak mouse next to the other sponsor's logos. (if it's
> beneficial in the long run.)
> 
> * Perhaps the squeak-related papers from the STC could be linked from
> squeak.org -- making squeak.org a valuable resource.
> 
> * I'm sure you can think of many more ideas for this proposed campaign.
> 
> The point is to make the best of this opportunity to promote squeak.
>