I like the ease of button loading projects.  It is almost like Android
Market except that everything is free.  It would be interesting to see a
dynamic package list with categories and most popular on top all with nice
buttons to load and update the code.  Dynamic to me means external so
probably the most important welcome project for now is a link to
squeaksource.

Ron Teitelbaum

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-
> dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Jecel Assumpcao Jr.
> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 12:00 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: [squeak-dev] "welcome" projects for 4.2
> 
> One of the discussions about the upcoming 4.2 release in this week's Board
> meeting was about what to include in the official image. There is a
tension
> between too bare of an initial impression and loading stuff that is not
> universally needed. One obvious solution is to have multiple official
images
> (kernel, plain trunk, funSqueak, web development and so
> on) and this may be adopted in the future, but it was decided that it
would
> be more practical to release a single image for 4.2 which should be as
close as
> possible to "plain trunk".
> 
> Official images are not just code, however, but have included text windows
> with helpful information and even whole projects with neat demos. The
> approach of using demo projects to showcase the system's possibilities to
> new users can be seen in recent Etoys distributions, though in that case
the
> projects are not actually in the image (which is
> read-only) but exist as separate files on disk and are loaded as needed.
> In the older Squeaks the projects were part of the image, but were trivial
to
> delete cleaning up the user interface and releasing the little extra
memory
> they were using.
> 
> One alternative would be to include projects in the plain trunk image to
show
> off advanced features not loaded into the image. The project could include
a
> little button in the background attached to a script to load all the extra
code
> needed to do what it is explaining. The user would have to choice to quit
> without saving if the feature turned out not to be interesting or to save
the
> image and keep that code even if the demo project is itself deleted.
> 
> If the community finds this an interesting option, then people would have
to
> volunteer to build these projects. I am supposing this will be an artistic
effort
> rather than a programming one writing the script to load the code is
simple
> enough.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> -- Jecel
> 
> P.S.: here is a quick review of non code material in previous official
Squeak
> images -
> 
> 1.16:
>     window "Welcome to ..."
>     window "The Squeak User Interface"
>     window "Managing and Saving Changes"
> 
> 1.2:
>     window "Welcome to ..."
>     window "The Squeak User Interface"
>     collapsed window "Managing and Saving Changes"
>     collapsed window "How Squeak Finds Source Code"
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 1" - sliders, scrollbard and list
panes
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 2" - polygons and arrows
>     collapsed project "Play With Me - 3" - Live In Morphic
> 
> 1.3:
>     window "Welcome to ..."
>     collapsed window "What's New in Version 1.3"
>     collapsed window "The Squeak User Interface"
>     collapsed window "Managing and Saving Changes"
>     collapsed window "How Squeak Finds Source Code"
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 1" - sliders, scrollbard and list
panes
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 2" - polygons and arrows
>     collapsed project "Play With Me - 3" - Live In Morphic
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 4" - "Back To The Future" paper
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 5" - advanced text flow
> 
> 2.0:
>     window "Welcome to ..."
>     window "The Squeak User Interface"
>     collapsed window "Managing and Saving Changes"
>     collapsed window "How Squeak Finds Source Code"
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 1" - sliders, scrollbard and list
panes
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 2" - polygons and arrows
>     collapsed project "Play With Me - 3" - Live In Morphic
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 4" - "Back To The Future" paper
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 5" - advanced text flow
>     collapsed project "Play With Me - 6" - Fabrik demo
>     collapsed window "About Squeak 2.0"
>     collapsed window "Pluggable Views"
>     collapsed window "Two Virtual Machines"
>     collapsed window "Image Size"
>     collapsed window "Source Code Updates"
>     collapsed window "The Wiki Wiki Server"
>     collapsed window "Stylized Text and Links in Source Code"
> 
> 2.3
>     window "Welcome to ...."
>     window "Getting Started"
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 1" - sliders, scrollbard and list
panes
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 2" - polygons and arrows
>     collapsed project "Play With Me - 3" - Live In Morphic
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 4" - "Back To The Future" paper
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 5" - advanced text flow
>     collapsed project "Play With Me - 6" - Fabrik demo
> 
> 2.5
>     window "Welcome to ...."
>     window "Getting Started"
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 1" - sliders, scrollbard and list
panes
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 2" - polygons and arrows
>     collapsed project "Play With Me - 3" - Live In Morphic
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 4" - "Back To The Future" paper
>     collapsed window "Play With Me - 5" - advanced text flow
>     collapsed project "Play With Me - 6" - Fabrik demo
>     collapsed project "Play With Me - 7" - Alice demo
>     collapsed project "Play With Me - 8" - Fun WIth Music
> 
> 3.0
>     window "Welcome to ..."
>     collapsed window "Getting Started..."
>     flash animated Squeak logo
>     project "The Worlds of Squeak"
>         subproject "Games"
>         subproject "Graphics"
>         subproject "3D"
>         subproject "The Net"
>         subproject "Scripts"
>         subproject "Music"
>     flap "Squeak"
>     flap "Supplies"
>     flap "Tools"
>     Navigation Bar
> 
> 3.2
>     window "Welcome to ..."
>     collapsed window "A Word of Caution"
>     collapsed window "ReadMe.txt"
>     flash animated Squeak logo
>     project "The Worlds of Squeak"
>         subproject "Games"
>         subproject "Graphics"
>         subproject "3D"
>         subproject "The Net"
>         subproject "Scripts"
>         subproject "Music"
>     flap "Squeak"
>     flap "Widgets"
>     flap "Supplies"
>     flap "Tools"
>     flap "Navigator"
> 
> 3.8
>     window "Welcome to ..."
>     collapsed window "A note to students, parents and teachers"
>     collapsed window "ReadMe.txt"
>     flash animated Squeak logo
>     project "SmalltalkIntroduction"
>     flap "Squeak"
>     flap "Widgets"
>     flap "Supplies"
>     flap "Tools"
>     flap "Navigator"
> 
> 3.10.2
>     window "Welcome to ..."
>     collapsed window "History of 3.10.2"
>     collapsed application "Package Universe Browser"
>     flash animated Squeak logo
>     flap "Squeak"
>     flap "Widgets"
>     flap "Supplies"
>     flap "Tools"
>     flap "Navigator"
> 
> 4.1
>     menu bar
>     window "Welcome to Squeak 4.1"
>     collapsed window "The Squeak User Interface"
>     collapsed window "Working With Squeak"
>     collapsed window "License Information"
>