On 23/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Markus Gaelli</b> <<a href="mailto:gaelli@emergent.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">gaelli@emergent.de</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
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<br><br>I also think it is important not to end up with a plethora of lists,<br>so my suggestion is to reuse squeakland for also posing and answering<br>basic smalltalk questions.<br>- Kim, would it be ok to ask smalltalk questions on squeakland?
<br>I think one factor of the success of the french squeak list, is that<br>it focuses on education, be it with etoys or smalltalk.</blockquote><div><br>I actually think it would be a bad idea to mix using etoys questions with finding your way in the class browser (not the same thing, not the same targeted audience).
<br><br>Concerning the french Squeak-list, which is a good list, if you look closely
you won't see a lot people actually *learning* smalltalk : giving
example of problem they have with their code, asking for help, etc.<br><br>For the moment the Squeak lists reflect its community state.<br>Apart from Squeakland (for etoys), Squeak is orientated research/hackers which is OK but I believe it *needs" students/teachers/people *learning* Squeak to produce useful tools-apps (not mainly research ones)
<br><br>If Squeak-Smalltalk doesn't succeed in that it will *always* stay a platform for researchers/hackers. This is not bad obviously, it's just a question of choice.<br><br>francois<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Cheers,<br><br>Markus<br><br></blockquote></div><br>