[squeak-dev] Squeak People (was: Time to Vote!)

Jecel Assumpcao Jr. jecel at merlintec.com
Sun Feb 4 20:16:34 UTC 2018


David,

> I had forgotten about "Squeak people" but here is the link to a
> swiki page about it:
> 
>    http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/8

Nice list! Odd that I am not there given

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/207

> This is page number 8 on the swiki, so it must be of fairly ancient
> provenance. IIRC there was also an actual web site for "squeak people"
> but I do not remember any details.

If you delete a swiki page and then create a new one, it might reuse the
old number. So while it is very likely that this was a very early page
you can't be sure until you check the history (which starts in January
2000 for page 8).

The site I talked about can be found at

> https://web.archive.org/web/*/people.squeakfoundation.org

Please ignore all snapshots after May 14 2008 since that was the last
time the site was actually running. It felt a bit like LinkedIn and help
see who had joined recently and what people were doing.

At one point there was a list on SqueakLand that people could add their
names to, but with a strict chronological order it only worked well in
the begining but became pointless as the list grew too big (just like
having 3000 comments on a video is worse than having 30).

> For me it is interesting to follow a few of the links on this swiki page.
> There is a listing of "Who's Where" that shows three people in Michigan,
> USA. I am one of the three, but I have never met the other two, both
> of whom apparently lived in the city of Ann Arbor at the time of the
> "Squeak people" listings. I now live in Ann Arbor myself, but I still
> have never met or spoken with any other Squeakers aside from other
> members of the Squeak oversight board who I now know from our video
> conference board meetings.

There was a "meet up" site that people tried to use to organize local
events. I think that other than a few meetings in London there was a not
enough concentration of people to make it work. At one point Craig Latta
was organizing some meetings in Silicon Valley - perhaps he could
comment on how well those worked?

-- Jecel


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