On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:25 -0600, Ken Causey wrote:
We now have 342 users registered at
http://people.squeakfoundation.org
of those 68 have never been certified by anyone and I suspect a large number of those are invalid/non-Squeak community accounts.
Hi,
I spent a little time the last week looking at people.squeakfoundation. I'm a developer which has now about 12 years of experience in programming. I'm monitoring squeak since 1998. And now I got the chance to do a real project with squeak, seaside,....
My experience with people.squeakfoundation is the following. I don't remember when I signed up. Signing up is exciting every time you do because you like to be a part of it. But in my opinion people.squeakfoundation is very frustrating at first place. You can sign up easily but then you are stuck. You can do nothing being an Observer. Why should I come back? I recognized this reading your article complaining about the actual status of the site. Being an Observer I couldn't post an answer to your article. Why should I use the side? Should I come back every week looking if someone was willing to raise my status? But then I write down which projects I like while I'm not able to click on the projects as you suppose being an Observer.
You wrote about the misuse of the login name. But then why is there a choice for the username? Wouldn't it be feasible to use the combination FirstnameLastname as login account? For me I find your critics right but I can't change my username to something more known (ok I'm still unknown :) ). I think the only thing people know is the email address and possibly the real name of other people. This is my guess thinking that most of the people know each other from the mailing list.
I think there is more to fix then the usage of the users.
My two cents,
Norbert