Hi all,


very nice idea, happy birthday Squeak afterward! (I did not know that Squeak is only four years exactly to the day older than me :D)


I'd like to propose the attached changeset for celebrating Squeak's anniversary inside the image, too. At the moment, it only adds some greetings to the update message dialog. For trying it out, please load the changeset into an image and hardcode "Date today" to return "Date year: 2021 month: 9 day: 24", for example:

[cid:b8c2ca3a-45b9-43ae-9ecb-132daae8a92f]


The CS is still a bit unpolished at the moment, but if you like it, I will refactor it of course!


We could also put on a party hat onto the Squeak icon in the docking bar (similarly as I did it in XmasDecorations), but this would require some background process/recurring UI message which probably would be a too big overhead for a small gimmick.


Best,

Christoph

<http://www.hpi.de/>
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Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml at gmail.com>
Gesendet: Freitag, 25. September 2020 15:37:37
An: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] Squeak 25th anniversary call for participation

On 24/09/20 9:26 pm, Craig Latta wrote:
>       What would you like to see, hear, and do? We of your board have a
> few ideas, including a new issue of Squeak News, and special interview
> episodes of the Smalltalk Reflections podcast. This is a good time to
> reflect, plan, and invent the future once more.
Craig,

Thank you for reaching out. That Squeak remains a fascinating platform
for inventing the future even after 25 years is a testimony to the
visions of its creators and the commitment of its community.

My proposals for the home page :

  * a scrolling banner "25th year of Squeak" or something similar on
squeak.org that links to a page on its history.
  * a screenshot of the email announcement that links to the actual
email in https://files.squeak.org/history/

The next iteration of Squeak 5.3 needs an image (greeting card!) to
highlight this milestone.

https://files.squeak.org/mail/index.html has mail records only from Nov
1996. Mails from Sep to Nov can be recovered/reconstructed for a
complete record.

BTW, contents of mail/ folder may be merged into history for ease of
access and (search) indexing.

Regards .. Subbu

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