Webteam November 2005

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PR info for Squeak
by Irina Lobo 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

I am a faculty member at National Louis University as well as the technology coordinator at a K-8 school in Evanston, IL. I have used Squeak with my students. A colleague and I are working on an article for a technology in education publication. The article is about several multimedia-authoring tools, including Squeak. We would like to provide a concise description of each tool. We can't guarantee that all the information will appear in the article, but we'd like to get the correct information. Do you have a PR person who could answer these questions? Let me know if I can contact somebody at Squeak for this information. Thank you. -Irina Lobo ilobo(a)nl.edu 847-905-2017 Questions: 1) Can we have permission to print a screen capture of Squeak? Is there one you would like us to use? 2) Here are a couple of quotes from our draft. Can you verify that these are accurate? Quotes: "Within CREATE Together and Squeak, for example, students actually participate in object-oriented programming, assigning attributes and actions to objects." "In Squeak, the tools for each object appear when the object is selected and are hidden when the object is not in use." "Programs like Squeak allow students to draw their own pictures and then animate them. " 3) Here are some categories of information. Can you look this over for accuracy, fill in blanks, and give us your take on each item? We would love more information on these categories. Squeak Title/Contact Information Squeak - www.squeakland.org Price: free Platform: Mac OSX and higher / Win 32 and higher / Unix / RiscOS Recommended Grade Levels : Special Features : - open source code - active community of users in several countries Creative Options - basic drawing tools - several plug-ins that play and manipulate sound file as well as 2D/3D graphics Publish/Share: - active Squeak community, so students in community can share and modify projects online - Squeak plug-in can be downloaded Support Materials - tutorials on www.squeakland.org <http://www.squeakland.org> - Powerful Ideas in the Classroom by B.J Allen-Conn & Kim Rose - Squeak: A Quick Trip to Objectland by Gene Korienek, Tom Wrensch, Doug Dechow

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Re: squeakfr.org hosting ?
by Ken Causey 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Samir, Yes I'm sure it would be fine but more information about the requirements would be good. By the way, I believe the WebSite Team is interested in having alternate translations of the www.squeak.org site available. Have you considered discussing this with them and instead using the existing site? Ken On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 08:43 +0100, Cees De Groot wrote: > Hi Samir, > > I think this won't be a problem, but barring some formal decision > process, it's probably best if we ask the box admins as a group. I've > Cc'ed the group's list. > > Do you have an idea what will be needed in term of hosting facilities? > > Regards, > > Cees > > On 11/30/05, Samir Saidani <saidani(a)squeakfr.org> wrote: > > Hi Cees ! > > > > I'm currently setting up the squeakfr.org and would like to know if > > there is any chance to get hosting of this site from the sqF box admin > > team (I guess that you are part of this team ?). This website - > > squeakfr.org - is intended to present squeak and provide > > documentations for french-speaking people not fluent in > > english. (especially the youngs since I've encountered a lot of youngs > > interested by squeak, and there are unfortunately not fluent in > > english). > > > > Thanks ! > > Samir > >

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squeakfr.org hosting ?
by Samir Saidani 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Hi ! I'm currently setting up the squeakfr.org and would like to know if there is any chance to get hosting from the guys administrating the current squeak.org machine. This website - squeakfr.org - is intended to present squeak and provide documentations for french-speaking people not fluent in english. Moreover, is it possible to base squeakfr on the current squeak.org image ? It seems that the webteam uses a stable image which is not presently shared through squeaksource. Since I'm currently maintaining SW1, I would like to collect this "stable" branche, and rename the old branche as "unstable" since I didn't manage to get it stable. I'm also working on including the internationalization work from Alexander, and would like to work on this stable image. I can put the stable source code into squeaksource, if someone could kindly send me a link to the squeak.org image. Thanks at all ! Friendly, Samir

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Team Lead position
by Jason Rogers 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

Team, It's been a real pleasure for me to be a part of this team. However, due to other circumstances I have found that I do not have enough time to lead the Team any longer (as you all have probably noticed). I am therefore officially stepping down. Karl Ramberg has volunteered to step up and fill the gap. I will be spending the next week or so helping Karl to transition into this position. I appreciate the help and support you have all been to me as Team Lead. I look forward to giving back more of myself (my time and my efforts) to the Squeak community. More than ever, I am convinced of its charms! -- Jason Rogers "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." Galatians 2:20

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squeakvm.org
by goran＠krampe.se 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Hi! Just remembered that we need to link to squeakvm.org - if we don't already do that of course. That is the new site set up by Ian for the development of the VM replacing the hp site which will soon "be no more". regards, Göran

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Updated style script on squeak .org
by karl 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

I have updated the style script on squeak.org. - It now has support for <blockquotes> as seen on the front page. - A orange Squeak Links box on the right side of the page. (Note that links added to this box must be added to the very long line in the box in settings and that the widget does not like CR in that line for some reason.) - A balloon image in the background top left corner. Karl

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Don't use URLs containing box2.squeakfoundation.org
by Ken Causey 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

I'm noticing that at least in some cases the www.squeak.org site is using URLs with box2.squeakfoundation.org and this is not a good idea. The site should be portable to any server which is properly setup. The cases I noticed are for CSS and favico but there may be others. If the problem is with accessing static files then talk to me and I will work out a way to do this that is more portable. Ken

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Arrows on folders in menu
by karl 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

I've been testing out to use arrows to show that some items in the menu are folders and not pages. It's running at the test server and it's not very well yet. But is this a path worth following or should I revert to the old menu ? Karl

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Syntax errors on Squeak Website
by Klaus D. Witzel 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Webteam, there are a couple of syntax errors on - http://www.squeak.org/Features/Research/ Squeak is a very flexible environment, and (no comma before and) Traits are a simple composition mechanism (singular v.s. plural, either "Traits is" or "macheanisms", in this case "Traits is") MetaclassTalk is a reflective extension of Smalltalk that provides programmers with a a meta-object (a a) http://home.simula.no:8888/QuA has prototyped (do NOT allow hyperlinks without subject: ALWAYS put a text between <a href=...> and </a>) This would further enhance the already wonderful and informative Squeak web site :) /Klaus

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Whaff?
by goran＠krampe.se 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

Ok guys... ...are you going nuts? ;) I know that the first page should be "as short as possible". And my intention was to try to get "rid" of the bottom link section - that was after all the basic idea behind the organge box. But a scrollbox?!?! Ok -> let's put some more smileys in here :) :) :). I am happy as a clam, but this is awful. No, let me choose a friendlier word... nah, couldn't find one. :) Please, please, pretty please with sugar on top - take it away! I want to decide myself how "long" my page is. I run a 1920x1200 screen here. Of course I don't expect the Team to just listen to silly me - but *all* of us on IRC right now think this is a really bad idea. ;) But apart from that - keep it up fellow team members. regards, Göran

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