There already is one http://groups.yahoo.com/group/squeaknewbie/ I signed up a while back when I saw it so I could help newbies if they had questions. I asked on the list if anyone was using the group and if anyone needed help. I got a response that said we get mostly spam and no questions. I'm still subscribed to it just incase someone stumbles on it and asks a question.
(I'm not taking sides just providing information)
Ron Teitelbaum
-----Original Message----- From: squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev- bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of stéphane ducasse Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 4:34 AM To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list Subject: Re: Looking for good souls
Hi guys
You know what? I found you really conservative and sitting on your knowledge. Do you really want to stay in your private club, be dandy, do not invite anybody to learn and grow? Because you think that people are not afraid of our discussions? Really?
May be this starter mailing-list will fail but I will have dare to try instead of staying with your certainty about life and facts.
My GOAL IS NOT TO SPLIT SQUEAK_DEV. My goal is to give a chance to people that are afraid or do not want to receive sometimes 50 emails per day to communicate with us. These are years that because of technological aspects we did not create such a list.
Here is what ralph told me, so either we do it publicly via squeakfondation as a normal and public list as the fact that we acknowledge that newcomers are ***welcome*** in our cool community, or I create a mailing in an obscure mail server and I will advertize it. I let you decide. But I will do it (you know me and I will fail and take the responsibility of this failure if it fails but at least I could be looking at this scar and be proud of it).
Just make a list and then advertise it. In fact, you might make several lists, for different languages.
As long as I've been on the Squeak list, people have argued against splitting the list. However, if Squeak is to grow, the list must split. When a list gets large, people don't want to post. When the people who post are experts, beginners get shy. If you want to grow the community, the lists must split.
Fortunately, you don't need to take a vote. Just create a list and advertise it, and the people who want to join will join, and the others won't.
-Ralph
Stef