On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
<merlyn at stonehenge.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Giuseppe" == Giuseppe Luigi Punzi <glpunzi at lordzealon.com> writes:
>
> I've been in discussion with various parties about the possibility
> of a "Perlmonks"-type site for Squeak, or perhaps Smalltalk in general.
>
> As much fun as you might make of the whole idea of "experience points" given
> for voting on good answers, and on being the one to post good answers, it has
> resulted in a website where you have a few dozen people checking the site
> minute-by-minute, wanting to be that first correct answer so that they get
> voted on by the other people to raise their status.  Yes, it's meaningless,
> but it has become a powerful tool in the Perl community.  It turns most
> people's natural competition into contribution for all.
>
> It would probably be under few man-months of effort to roll out a basic
> Smalltalkmonk site using Seaside and perhaps GemStone/S to back it.
>
> Yes, I personally prefer email, although I prefer email backed by NNTP so that
> I can automatically have a back-catalog of postings.  (Thank you,
> lists.perl.org for being a central hub!)  But a well-designed web forum with
> perlmonks-style voting might be an interesting "watering hole" to get
> Google-ranked Smalltalk info out there in the modern world.
>
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I like the monk idea.  A good way to let people realize we are a
modern comunity is to look like it with those kind of forums.