What is needed is for people to step up to the bar and say I'm in and I'll give ???? to the community effort. If there are not enough people to support it there is no community (so lurkers put up or shut up <grin>).
One also needs leaders - to do the "BS" part and a leader to do the "Linus" part and some others to help.
The community needs to give that group a mandate to "do something with Squeak" which will be definition be wrong <grin> but better than nothing.
Using the XP Community Building Kit <grin> you can then iterate over time.
The name, goals...will come as you go...communities form to do things not define things <grin>.
Dave
p.s. Dan is not opposed to using Squeak if SqF goals are in the spirit of Squeak... I believe the OpenSmalltalk came up because some people have a passion for going backwards to ANSI Smalltalk ( I hate reruns<grin>).
Dave dave@bedarra.com is widely believed to have written:
What is needed is for people to step up to the bar and say I'm in
Well I'm in. I'll do whatever I can make time to do; at the moment I'm rather _too_ free to help since I'm jobless. :-( If anyone wants to pay me to do Foundation stuff that would be entirely acceptable.
I'm not a particularly good choice for things that require people-schmoozing skills, but I do know my way around a Smalltalk system rather well. Architectures, code reviewing, mentoring, stuff like that.
tim
dave@bedarra.com said:
One also needs leaders - to do the "BS" part and a leader to do the "Linus" part and some others to help.
Yes, but community leaders grow, they are not appointed.
The name, goals...will come as you go...communities form to do things not define things <grin>.
Disagree - especially in a distributed organization, the goal/purpose is the most important thing of all lest the organization gets killed by lack of focus.
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