Dear Squeakers,
I'm writing this to follow up our recent effort to get Squeak By Example Slashdotted. Unless somebody has evidence to the contrary, I think our effort to get Slashdotted is -- for now -- at an end. I made the PR Team request on Wednesday. At least five people did submit the story to Slashdot. The status of my submission was 'pending' for two days, until Friday. Then it was rejected. I'm assuming that the others have also been rejected.
My impression of this is that the editors did not know what to do with the story and so left it in the Firehose section to see what kind of reaction the story had on the Slashdot forums. There was not a great deal of forum activity for the story, and so I think they took that as an indication that they could pass the story over.
That's OK. One Slashdoting does not a new future for Squeak make. What I think is most important here is how positive and willing the Squeak community was to take this idea seriously. Nobody thought trying to get Slashdotted was a waste of time. It is my impression that people in the Squeak community are ready for a higher profile. If the community starts to think in this way, and this is something that Squeakers want, then we can make it happen over time.
Chris Cunnington PR Team leader