Webteam October 2008

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test
by Janko Mivšek 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

just test, please ignore Janko

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Edit accounts on the website
by Janko Mivšek 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Dear webteam, Now it is a time to open accounts on the website for all of you willing to help writing, editing and maintaining the content. Unlike on old site here everyone will have his own account, so it will be easier to track changes on the website. So now editors please stand up to open an account for you. Best regards JAnko

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Suggestion for Squeak Website: Syntax on a Postcard
by Frank Ewert 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Hello Webteam, the following link does not work anymore. Please fix it. 1.) Go to: http://www.squeak.org/Documentation/ 2.) Click: Smalltalk Syntax on a Postcard (http://www.esug.org/whyusesmalltalktoteachoop/smalltalksyntaxonapostcard/) 3.) Error 4.) Should be something like the folowing or attachment (There are littele differences between!) exampleWithNumber: x "A method that illustrates every part of Smalltalk method syntax except primitives. It has unary, binary, and key word messages, declares arguments and temporaries (but not block temporaries), accesses a global variable (but not an instance variable), uses literals (array, character, symbol, string, integer, float), uses the pseudo variable true false, nil, self, and super, and has sequence, assignment, return and cascade. It has both zero argument and one argument blocks. It doesn’t do anything useful, though" |y| true & false not & (nil isNil) ifFalse: [self halt]. y := self size + super size. #($a #a 'a' 1 1.0) do: [:each | Transcript show: (each class name); show: (each printString); show: ' ']. ^ x < y -- Yours faithfully Frank Ewert mailto:frank.ewert@web.de It is better to be roughly right than to be precisely wrong. [J.M.Keynes]

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Congratulations from Leadership
by Janko Mivšek 16 Oct '08

16 Oct '08

Dear all, Good news, Leadership says we are "running smoothly" and send us congratulations! Janko -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [squeak-dev] leadership team meeting notes for 2008-10-15 From: Craig Latta <craig(a)netjam.org> Hi-- - Full attendance: Bert, Craig, Edgar, Giovanni, Igor, Randal, and Yoshiki. - Randal reports that the web team is running smoothly. Congratulations to all! - Craig said he's writing a Naiad (Spoon module system) design overview, and will post it to the squeak-dev and spoon mailing lists. He's been writing it for a day, and is about half done. - Yoshiki says he's created an EToys 4.0 image, based on Squeak 3.8, which is license-clean. We decided to use a similar process to create Squeak 4 from Squeak 3.11 (and whatever other license-clean changes the 3.11 release team wants to include). Yoshiki will consult with them about ensuring license-cleanliness. Randal will coordinate with the release team and report on their progress. - We decided in principle to have two board-appointed release teams working at any given moment: one producing the next release (I'll call it "one-ahead"), and one producing the release after that ("two-ahead"). We decided that Spoon is the two-ahead release now, or Squeak 5. Craig is leading the two-ahead team, and will add people to it when Naiad can support their work. - The next meeting will be 2008-11-19 due to schedule conflicts. Please send agenda suggestions to me. thanks, -C

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I have a Smalltalk photo that Squeak may be able to use gratis.
by Jim Law 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Dear Squeak.org Webteam, I have been a smalltalk user since about 1986. Last year a large, multi-colored balloon showed up beside my apartment building and I took a picture of it. You can see it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9722506@N02/1465453034/ I own the unrestricted copyright for this photo. If the Squeak project would like to use this photo free of charge, please get in touch with me. If you crop out ugly building in the foreground this is a pretty nice photo (I think). If you are not the appropriate folks to discuss this with, I would appreciate a referral to someone who is appropriate. Thanks for your time. Jim Law (a happy Squeak user)

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Re: Screenshots page (was squeak.org content...)
by Torsten Bergmann 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

>Perfect! So, let we made a package on SqueakSource, hmm, which name, >Snapshoter? There is already a screenshot morph I did long time ago. http://www.squeaksource.com/ScreenShotMorph.html "This morph allows you to easily make screenshots. Open the morph from the "new morph" menu, the objects tool or evaluate "ScreenShotMorph open". Double click on it to make a screenshot. Note that there is a halo option to automatically hide the morph when the screenshot is taken." Dont know if ot works in recent squeak images but I opened the project for read/write so feel free to modify or add a separate "Snapshoter". Thx Torsten -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer

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Re: [squeak-dev] squeak.org content (Was Re: Squeak website now runs on Aida/Scribo)
by Janko Mivšek 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

Hi Torsten, Torsten Bergmann wrote: >> Now, how about finding web-designer to make squeak face more beatiful? > > Yes, but we should also look at the CONTENT. Currently from the screenshot > section the first two screenshots gives the impression that Squeak is only > useful to build Czech applications and playing old morphic games ;) > > When I visit a website I typically use the screenshot section to see how > the program looks and what people are able to do with it. We also have videos > these days, so a screencast/video section might pe appropriate. > > Squeak is driving lots of applications, frameworks, research and cool things > these days. Here is a collection of screenshots/new content I would like to see > added to the web page: > > http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5715 > > It's a mix of all things Squeak. Anyone from the web team able to integrate some of this? I haven't been aware of that nice page of screenshots and I agree it is a time to refresh official website and your collection is a way to go. Do you have some more concrete proposal? I would start with screenshots of nice work by Gary Chambers on Flickr which is going to be included in Squeak distro sooner or later, so, which one to choose as a first on Screenshots page? What more to add? One EToys, one Crocket, OLPC, ... I would introduce sections, with one or two screenshots then a ling to the section subpage with more. Sections can be named as in projects: Development, Education, 3D worlds, Web, etc JAnko -- Janko Mivšek AIDA/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si

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Re: [Board] Licensing term
by Janko Mivšek 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: > Thanks, Randal, > > I knew I needed to send it to Janko to get people take it more > seriously^^; Janko, could you fold his suggestion? Done! Please look at the http://www.squeak.org/SqueakLicense/ and confirm that I put it in correct place. Janko > Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> >> Just a minor nit, since I wear that "techwriter" hat from time to time: >> >>>>>>> "Yoshiki" == Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki(a)vpri.org> writes: >> Yoshiki> We can only accept new >> Yoshiki> contributions that is under the MIT license. >> >> Replace that with either: >> >> All new contributions must be under the MIT license. >> >> (or) >> >> We can accept new contributions only if they are under the MIT license. >> >> But I like the first one, because it's shorter. :) Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: > Janko, > > Could you put a paragraph in http://squeak.org/SqueakLicense/, > before "Have you contributed source to Squeak?", that states: > > --------------- > Do you want to contribute source to Squeak? We can only accept new > contributions that is under the MIT license. When you make your code > available, please state explicitly in some form such as the > description on a web site or email announcement that your contribution > is under the MIT license. (It doesn't have to be exclusive; you can > release it under difference licenses at the same time.) > --------------- > > -- Yoshiki >

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website issues on mantis
by Matthew Fulmer 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

http://bugs.squeak.org There are several bugs there regarding the website. They are in two places: Project Squeak, category www.squeak.org - All these issues are from 2006 and are closed Project Squeak website - None of these issues are closed, and about half are newer than 2006 Should I report bugs against the website there, or here? -- Matthew Fulmer -- http://mtfulmer.wordpress.com/

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Website bug with trailing slashes
by Matthew Fulmer 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

The documentation website used to be available at this url, but is no longer: http://squeak.org/Documentation The trailing slash is now required: http://squeak.org/Documentation/ -- Matthew Fulmer -- http://mtfulmer.wordpress.com/

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