Hi, Dave -
Sorry for delay in reply, but I wanted to talk to the "team" before responding. You and the other "Squeaklanders" may be interested to learn that a group of us spanning the globe (U.S., Japan, Germany) "meet" via a conference call each week to discuss issues surrounding the current Squeak-Etoy system being used, the Squeakland.org website, and the evolution of the Etoy system.
We discussed your question as part of today's call. A place for the community to share projects, papers, etc. has been an issue for some time. We have tried a variety of ideas, most recently offering the "project swiki or project gallery" which some of you noticed is now "down". This brought pros and cons -- a place to share that quickly became so overloaded with over 5,000 projects that it was not helpful at any level as one could not navigate through it, and it was very slow. The majority of projects posted there were 'kid-generated', experimental, and often incomplete and not particularly "content-laden". (Lots and lots of little cars!!!)
We *really* want to encourage project creation and sharing. For now, we ask you and others to send projects you wish to share with the greater community via email to
projects@squeakland.org
We will then determine a place and way to post these to the Squeakland site, most likely through a swiki. We will announce to the list and via "Squeak News" on Squeakland.org once we have this "area" created.
We encourage anyone submitting a project to either have text inside of the project to give it come context (i.e., "this etoy was created by a 5th grade student as part of a model-building project to explore a predator-prey relationship") or better yet, if you are a teacher, or parent, the ideas behind asking your child to create the project you are sharing. Was it to teach the child about the concept of a variable? a law of motion? etc. This will be most helpful to any of us looking at the project and trying to build our own repertoire. This is why we published the first "Etoy of the Month" with an additional text document to provide background, context and more.
We look forward to your contributions and hope, together, we can build a rich repository of cool projects!
cheers, Kim
At 2:30 PM -0600 3/29/05, dgraftery@verizon.net wrote:
With all the informative posts, recently, I was wondering if Squeakland has a Swiki, where members can post followups or store useful content for all users. Something similar to the squeak developers swiki. We could also use a squakland swiki as a place to collectively write tutorials and provide hints. Is this possible to implement? Thanks, Dave
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