On 22/04/06, stéphane ducasse <ducasse@iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
Ok so let's find a good name.
my 2 cents:
I personally think it should emphasize on the idea of *learning* (I
think Squeak needs that: more
programmers/teachers/students/people *learning* to program in
Squeak and do useful things with it)
squeakers
It looks like a club to me not sure if it's about learning.
squeak-starter
No strong opinion
squeak-chat
Don't like it and doesn't look like *learning* but eventually 'gossiping', maybe in a squeak manner ;)
squeak-users (i'm afraid that people think about using = etoy but why
not).
I tend to like it but maybe 'Squeakers' are 'above' *using* (the users
of) a software. To me Squeak seems more about
'building'/learning/programing than 'using'.
Personally I quiet like the "tutor" prefix (or any prefix which focus
on *learning* but not on belonging to any kind of select club or
'sect'). As I mentioned before the list 'Python-Tutors' works well and
have been very helpful for me and it begins with a statement which
don't scare beginners : "Tutor -- Discussion for learning programming
with Python".
Anyway I think the idea is that it should be clear for newcomers that
they are welcome to ask even 'silly'/obvious/abc question in a list
which is designed for that (meaning few threads about hacking the VM or
Bug Reports)
Whatever the name of the list I think it's a great initiative, thanks :)
francois