Hi Richard,
Richard Karpinski escribió:
Hello yourself, Yoshiki,
Thanks so much. We are on our way!
Could I have found this info in some other way?
I don't know. But as far as I can tell a nice thing about the Squeak community is the friendly way they welcome and answer the newbies like me (well there are still some unanswered questions to me in the Squeak Beginners and Squeak-land mailing list). The basic steps of the use of Book morph are already documented in many places but documentation becomes outdated quickly and putting it on date requires the learning of syntax of some wiki not so spreaded (moin or mediawiki syntaxes are more spreaded that Smallwiki for example).
Wouldn't my life and yours be better if I could?
Where should this tutorial information be gathered and how should it be found?
New question
Can I get a screen shot at each stage of the process you laid out so nicely?
May be you can replicate it from the words and take screenshots. Then copy the Yoshiki explanation and upload your screenshots to help in the documentation process of Etoys in some wiki.
There are plenty of Wikis out there and ideally one would congregate all the people around the same subject, but there are a lot of small and big differences between them (mediawiki is nice for a Wikipedia and very popular for this, even used by OLPC project, but when you try in other contexts it lacks of flexibility, good other choices are Moin, TWiki, Prowiki). You can choose the wiki you like more and point your documentation from the main Wiki. May with the time we can think in something like a Planet for blogers but instead of having particular Blogers Post it will be a Planet for Wikis related with Etoys and Squeak. Some people call the extended concept a Wiki Ohana (do you remember Lilo & Stich?: Ohana means family)
Is there a wiki where I should search or ask for advice like this?
You can get a lot of links on Squeak on this Spanish language wiki:
http://www.el-directorio.org/Squeak
You can ask for advice in list like this and after having your answer you can help to spread to the outsider using a Wiki as a documentation and more public channel.
Maybe I should be asking for "Etoys for Dummies".
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Lets do it together. At this moment I'm working with Etoys with my students and trying to build a Colombian Community of Squeakers (the unanswered questions on the other list are about projects for that). Building local communities its one of our biggest challenges.
Won't Squeakland be completely overwhelmed if one half of one percent of the people with XO machines this rime next year just say hi, let alone ask a question? When the task is to consume an entire elephant, the very best solution is to train the elephant to consume herself. This leads me again to the Wiki.Etoys.org or something like that, doesn't it?
May be if we build strong local communities in the process Squeakland has not to get all the weight of answering to the people. In that process we need to act as bridges between students and the specialized community. Creating "external" wiki documentation from the answers of the list and the class experiences could be a good starting point.
Cheers,
Offray