[Squeakland] Re: 3 questions : trailStyle, falling balls pictures, forums ?

[francois schnell]

Bonjour,

* Thank you for the full set of pictures !

* Concerning good programming community sites I used mainly 2 sites for 
VB and Flash programming  in French ... ;-) (http://www.flashxpress.net/ 
and http://www.codes-sources.com/). They are not very good sites but 
they have very active ... Forums ...

They were priceless to me when I decided 2 years ago to learn (Flash / 
Action Script) .I wanted to design and program scientific simulations 
for kids which are running in the Planetarium I worked for.
I would say I learned Flash : 20 % books, 80 % forums.
Each time I was really stuck I  searched in the Forums and very often 
somone else had the same question.
There are many advantages to have a forum :
- Different themes (maybe newbies to squeak, teachers projects, E-tyos 
programming, Squeak programming,...) 
- It's good for newbies who often hesitate to ask "stupid" questions in 
a mailing list.
- You've got a good visisibility of  "hot subjects" or somone lost 
without  an answer.
- etc.

I like to imagine a "big impact community site"as an emergent system 
like an anthill  for example.
A anthill  is very organised and efficient  (nursery, cimetery, etc.) 
but there are no individual architect or lead programmer.
It organise and strenghten  itselft thanks to the quality of the 
"communication" beetwen ants (the pheromons) and if the critical mass is 
reached (I believe a few thousands for an Anthill).

Even if I'm still quite a newbie to Squeak (not for long hopefully), the 
more I look at it and the more I see an *Astronomical* multiple 
potential in it.

I think Alan Kay and all the fellows squeak and squeakland teams have 
done a tremendous job.
There are exotic fruits and  succelent juicy food there I never saw 
eleswhere, nevertheless  to reach "the critical mass" we need  the best 
pheromones and I think a real  Forum is a part of it.


PS :  I actually never installed a forum . Maybe something like phpBB 
could be good (and you can skin it with the Squeak feel and look).  I'm 
ready to investigate ...

PS :  If Forum there is, I solely here promess to help squeakers  on 
it.  :-)


François  Schnell
Strasbourg
France
http://francois.schnell.free.fr/


Michael Rueger wrote:

> francois schnell wrote:
>
>> -Project 10 « Falling balls » looks really good, unfortunatelly I 
>> don't have a camcorder. Would it be possible to have the pictures of 
>> the falling ball to do the project 10. I promess I 'll buy a 
>> camcorder « soon » to do the « real » experiment ...
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> The pictures are now available at
> http:www.squeakland.org/~michael/ball-drop.zip
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>> * Is there a way to search in the archive of the mailinglist ?
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> Unfortunately not. Although a general google search should cover most 
> of it too.
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>> Do you plan to open Forums in the future ? I'm convincing their're 
>> important to initiate a wide community learning from each others 
>> questions and experiences.
>
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> The mailing list is intended to be the forum to communicate.
> We are thinking about other forms of communication, do you (or otheres 
> on this list) have examples of good, working community sites?
>
> Cheers
>
> Michael
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