Please read the press release for the book 'Squeak By Example', and submit the story to Slashdot.
http://www.squeak.org/PressRoom/NewSmalltalkBookNowAvailableSqueakbyExample/
YOU MUST MENTION SQUEAK'S A PART OF THE OLPC. We need to hook into the current wind of G1G1 news spreading throughout the media.
Q: On the contrary, that is who you wanted to be: someone who was less headstrong in his youth, less impulsive, less like me. The downside is as follows: the Jean-Luc Picard who you wanted to be, the one who did NOT fight the Nausicaans, had quite a different career from the one you remember. That Jean-Luc Picard never had a brush with death; he never came face-to-face with his own mortality; he never realized how fragile life is, or how important each moment must be. So HIS life never came into focus. He drifted through most of his career, with no plan or agenda... going from one assignment to the next, never seizing the opportunities that presented themselves. He never led the away team on Millica 3 to save the ambassador, or took charge of the Stargazer's bridge when its captain was killed... and no one ever offered HIM a command. He learned to 'play it safe' ... and never got noticed by anybody.
Chris Cunnington PR Team leader
"The downside is as follows: the Jean-Luc Picard who you wanted to be
..."
Isn't that the Jean-Luc Picard who celebrated his 135th birthday with cigars, good scotch and an evening at the brothel on Rigel-7?
Story submitted. Great book.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Cunnington" cunnington@sympatico.ca To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:39 AM Subject: PR Team Request: Submit this story to Slashdot
Please read the press release for the book 'Squeak By Example', and submit the story to Slashdot.
http://www.squeak.org/PressRoom/NewSmalltalkBookNowAvailableSqueakbyExample/
YOU MUST MENTION SQUEAK'S A PART OF THE OLPC. We need to hook into the current wind of G1G1 news spreading throughout
the
media.
Q: On the contrary, that is who you wanted to be: someone who was less headstrong in his youth, less impulsive, less like me. The downside is as follows: the Jean-Luc Picard who you wanted to be, the one who did NOT
fight
the Nausicaans, had quite a different career from the one you remember.
That
Jean-Luc Picard never had a brush with death; he never came face-to-face with his own mortality; he never realized how fragile life is, or how important each moment must be. So HIS life never came into focus. He
drifted
through most of his career, with no plan or agenda... going from one assignment to the next, never seizing the opportunities that presented themselves. He never led the away team on Millica 3 to save the
ambassador,
or took charge of the Stargazer's bridge when its captain was killed...
and
no one ever offered HIM a command. He learned to 'play it safe' ... and never got noticed by anybody.
Chris Cunnington PR Team leader
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Could you please change the website url to http://www.squeakbyexample.org/?
2007/9/26, Chris Cunnington cunnington@sympatico.ca:
Please read the press release for the book 'Squeak By Example', and submit the story to Slashdot.
http://www.squeak.org/PressRoom/NewSmalltalkBookNowAvailableSqueakbyExample/
YOU MUST MENTION SQUEAK'S A PART OF THE OLPC. We need to hook into the current wind of G1G1 news spreading throughout the media.
Q: On the contrary, that is who you wanted to be: someone who was less headstrong in his youth, less impulsive, less like me. The downside is as follows: the Jean-Luc Picard who you wanted to be, the one who did NOT fight the Nausicaans, had quite a different career from the one you remember. That Jean-Luc Picard never had a brush with death; he never came face-to-face with his own mortality; he never realized how fragile life is, or how important each moment must be. So HIS life never came into focus. He drifted through most of his career, with no plan or agenda... going from one assignment to the next, never seizing the opportunities that presented themselves. He never led the away team on Millica 3 to save the ambassador, or took charge of the Stargazer's bridge when its captain was killed... and no one ever offered HIM a command. He learned to 'play it safe' ... and never got noticed by anybody.
Chris Cunnington PR Team leader
On 9/27/07, Damien Cassou damien.cassou@gmail.com wrote:
Could you please change the website url to http://www.squeakbyexample.org/?
Chris Cunnington wrote:
Please read the press release for the book 'Squeak By Example', and submit the story to Slashdot.
http://www.squeak.org/PressRoom/NewSmalltalkBookNowAvailableSqueakbyExample/
I searched Slashdot's firehose this morning and found 2 submissions (1 mine)
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=287897 (Sep 14)
http://developers.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=303255 (mine, Sep 26)
No doubt I don't know how to search firehose properly, as I missed gafisher's submission.
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=303781
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On 9/27/07, Damien Cassou damien.cassou@gmail.com wrote:
Could you please change the website url to
http://www.squeakbyexample.org/?
Chris Cunnington wrote:
Please read the press release for the book 'Squeak By Example', and
submit
the story to Slashdot.
http://www.squeak.org/PressRoom/NewSmalltalkBookNowAvailableSqueakbyExample/
I searched Slashdot's firehose this morning and found 2 submissions (1
mine)
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=287897 (Sep 14)
http://developers.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=303255 (mine, Sep
26)
No doubt I don't know how to search firehose properly, as I missed gafisher's submission.
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9/26/2007 8:20 PM
Please don't take this personally, but I see a number of problems with the submission:
1. Squeak isn't the "OLPC version of Smalltalk". It's a dialect of Smalltalk that was selected for the OLPC, due to it's traditionally deep focus on education.
2. The phrase 'Squeak is the "official" version chosen and used by Dr. Alan Kay' is ambiguous... official version of what? I know you mean Smalltalk, but at best, it's poorly worded.
3. The phrase "With millions of OLPC computers expected soon to be in the hands of the upcoming generation, it will be an advantage, perhaps a requirement, for developers to master Squeak." is rather silly, and seems like breathless hyperbole. Particularly since it's not like Squeak is the only venue for developing applications for the OLPC (at minimum, there's Python, and I would assume straight Linux binaries would work, as well). Really, that entire statement could be nixed, though I'd probably go with something like "With millions of OLPC computers soon to be in the hands of children throughout the world, such a resource could prove valuable to those interested in developing new applications for the platform", or something along those lines.
With all that said, I'd prefer something like the following:
'With the recent announcement of the <link>Give-One-Get-One</link> OLPC program, and the growing popularity of software such as <link>Seaside</link> and <link>Croquet</link>, the arrival of <link>"Squeak By Example"</link>, a freely available book covering the popular <link>Squeak</link> dialect of Smalltalk, seems all the more timely. Within, readers will find a gentle introduction to the language and environment, along with hands-on examples and exercises suitable for novices, teachers and developers alike. With millions of OLPC computers soon to be in the hands of children throughout the world, such a resource could prove valuable to those interested in developing new applications for the platform.'
Or something along those lines, anyway. :)
Brett.
Brett writes:
...I'd prefer something like the following:
'With the recent announcement of the <link>Give-One-Get-One</link> OLPC program, and the growing popularity of software such as
<link>Seaside</link> and <link>Croquet</link>, the arrival of <link>"Squeak By Example"</link>, a freely available book covering the popular <link>Squeak</link> dialect of Smalltalk, seems all the more timely. Within, readers will find a gentle introduction to the language and environment, along with hands-on examples and exercises suitable for novices, teachers and developers alike. With millions of OLPC computers soon to be in the hands of children throughout the world, such a resource could prove valuable to those interested in developing new applications for the platform.'
Or something along those lines, anyway. :)
Ship it! :)
-C
-- Craig Latta improvisational musical informaticist www.netjam.org Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]
On 9/27/07, Craig Latta craig@netjam.org wrote:
Brett writes:...I'd prefer something like the following:
'With the recent announcement of the <link>Give-One-Get-One</link> OLPC program, and the growing popularity of software such as
<link>Seaside</link> and <link>Croquet</link>, the arrival of <link>"Squeak By Example"</link>, a freely available book covering the popular <link>Squeak</link> dialect of Smalltalk, seems all the more timely. Within, readers will find a gentle introduction to the language and environment, along with hands-on examples and exercises suitable for novices, teachers and developers alike. With millions of OLPC computers soon to be in the hands of children throughout the world, such a resource could prove valuable to those interested in developing new applications for the platform.'
Or something along those lines, anyway. :)
Ship it! :)
He he, done and done. :)
http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=305723
Brett.
He he, done and done. :)
And then what do I do? Forget to link to the Squeak homepage. Doheth!
Brett.
Fine with me, Brett. If it could only be submitted once, I'd vote for your version.
<s>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Kosinski" fancypantalons@gmail.com To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 6:11 PM Subject: Re: PR Team Request: Submit this story to Slashdot
Please don't take this personally, but I see a number of problems with the submission:
- Squeak isn't the "OLPC version of Smalltalk". It's a dialect of
Smalltalk that was selected for the OLPC, due to it's traditionally deep focus on education.
- The phrase 'Squeak is the "official" version chosen and used by Dr.
Alan Kay' is ambiguous... official version of what? I know you mean Smalltalk, but at best, it's poorly worded.
- The phrase "With millions of OLPC computers expected soon to be in
the hands of the upcoming generation, it will be an advantage, perhaps a requirement, for developers to master Squeak." is rather silly, and seems like breathless hyperbole. Particularly since it's not like Squeak is the only venue for developing applications for the OLPC (at minimum, there's Python, and I would assume straight Linux binaries would work, as well). Really, that entire statement could be nixed, though I'd probably go with something like "With millions of OLPC computers soon to be in the hands of children throughout the world, such a resource could prove valuable to those interested in developing new applications for the platform", or something along those lines.
With all that said, I'd prefer something like the following:
'With the recent announcement of the <link>Give-One-Get-One</link> OLPC program, and the growing popularity of software such as
<link>Seaside</link> and <link>Croquet</link>, the arrival of <link>"Squeak By Example"</link>, a freely available book covering the popular <link>Squeak</link> dialect of Smalltalk, seems all the more timely. Within, readers will find a gentle introduction to the language and environment, along with hands-on examples and exercises suitable for novices, teachers and developers alike. With millions of OLPC computers soon to be in the hands of children throughout the world, such a resource could prove valuable to those interested in developing new applications for the platform.'
Or something along those lines, anyway. :)
Brett.
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