[Squeakland] Re: Squeakland Forum?

[Phil Firsenbaum]

I heartily agree with François regarding the need for a good 
interactive forum to support those of us who are still learning our way 
around Squeak eToys and constantly encounter new challenge.
François mentioned phpBB, which I learned is open source and free...2 
attractive features.
I found vBulletin, which looks to be widely used.
For those interested, take a look at vBulletin's forum site 
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/

Finally, what will it take to get a forum started?
Phil


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> From: francois schnell <francois.schnell at free.fr>
> Date: January 26, 2004 5:36:13 PM EST
> To: Michael Rueger <michael at squeakland.org>, squeakland at squeakland.org
> Subject: [Squeakland]	Re: 3 questions : trailStyle, falling balls 
> pictures, forums ?
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> 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/
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>
> Michael Rueger wrote:
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>> 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 ...
>>
>>
>> The pictures are now available at
>> http:www.squeakland.org/~michael/ball-drop.zip
>>
>>
>>> * Is there a way to search in the archive of the mailinglist ?
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately not. Although a general google search should cover most 
>> of it too.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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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