Webteam March 2009

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16 Jul '09

Hello all, I'm just working on Contact Us form: http://squeaksite.aidaweb.si/ContactUs/ On form a type of message can be selected and so far I see next possible types: ^#( 'newbie question' 'technical question' 'suggestion, comment' 'for Squeak community' 'for website maintainers' 'for Squeak Leadership') 6 so far, so we cannot add much more. Have you idea what types should be? Which one to add, rename, remove, merge..? Which one should be default? 'suggestion, comment'? Janko -- Janko Mivšek AIDA/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si

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List of tasks regarding removing references to Foundation squeak.org
by Igor Stasenko 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

- main menu remove the menu item 'Foundation' - /Foundation should be merged with /Community/Teams page in 'How its run' sub-section , i think we should remove notice about Wednesdays, it is better to say something like following: - the team meet online at minimum twice per month, to discuss the current agenda items. The agenda list is publicly availabe at (....) and mainained by team secretary. Team is open to hear any outstanding issues and proposals by Squeak community members for dusscussing them during next board meeting. Feel free to submit/comment team agenda items here (... ) or write a private mail to .... (someone with better English, please rephrase the above :) - /Foundation/Board/ should be merged with /Community/Teams - Foundation/SupportSqueak/ page.. i'm not sure what to do with it. There are multiple references to 'Foundation' including text on badges, but also PayPal links, which we have to leave to be able to receive donations. I think we could simply make a separate section named 'Support us' which should be visible as a top-level menu item in main menu. Also, it would be nice to have a button under 'Powered by Squeak' with 'Support Us', which leads to that page. And since Randal joined another board, which accepting donations, we should add it there as well? Randal? - Teams page rewrite: as i proposed, i see it as a list of teams with more detailed decription for each team: - first comes a team model description (or i think it would better to create a separate page for it and put a link on teams page leading to it ). - next comes a Current teams list (not tabular, just a nicely formatted text with team names as headings): - Team name - Team description, like its goals, way how people could participate etc etc. - Current team members, team leader(s) - update stamp (reminder) Ken should contact the teams to check if they are still there, and ask them to describe the team role & workflow, and possibly give the list of team members, so we will use them to fill the team descriptions. Once we agree with list above, i will add a verified list of tasks to blog , so it will not vanish untill everything will be done :) Janko, should we break the list of changes on stages, so you can make them gradually? Waiting for your comments. Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

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[Fwd: Re: [squeak-dev] [Web Team] Broken link]
by Ken Causey 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Oops, should have read a little further before flash-forwarding. Thanks, Ken -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek(a)eranova.si> Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] [Web Team] Broken link Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:08:24 +0200 Herbert König pravi: > I just stumbled into a broken link on http://squeak.org/Documentation/ > > There the Smalltalk syntax on a postcard link points to > http://www.esug.org/whyusesmalltalktoteachoop/smalltalksyntaxonapostcard/ > which is not found any more. > > And http://www.chronos-st.org/Smalltalk-Getting-the-Message.html has > been relocated. It still works but maybe Squeak.org should point to > the new place. > http://www.smalltalk-resources.com/Smalltalk-Getting-the-Message.html Corrected! Thanks Herbert to pointing them out. Janko

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[Fwd: [squeak-dev] [Web Team] Broken link]
by Ken Causey 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Herbert König <herbertkoenig(a)gmx.net> Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> To: Squeak devList <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> Subject: [squeak-dev] [Web Team] Broken link Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:37:53 +0200 Hi, I just stumbled into a broken link on http://squeak.org/Documentation/ There the Smalltalk syntax on a postcard link points to http://www.esug.org/whyusesmalltalktoteachoop/smalltalksyntaxonapostcard/ which is not found any more. And http://www.chronos-st.org/Smalltalk-Getting-the-Message.html has been relocated. It still works but maybe Squeak.org should point to the new place. http://www.smalltalk-resources.com/Smalltalk-Getting-the-Message.html Cheers, Herbert mailto:herbertkoenig@gmx.net

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Integrating an Installer wiki pages with squeak.org hosting
by Igor Stasenko 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Keith, Ken, Matthew and Janko, i'd like to ask, if there are easy & fast solution to move installer scripts under our domain/hosting, to be not dependent from pbwiki. Janko, what you think how it could be easy/hard to enable Aida to support it? Ken, is there a technical possibility for doing this? If there is no big barriers, i'd like to put it to board discussion, and make a decision about it. I think it would be good to have everything under our control, since Installer is a core part of 3.11 release. Of course, if it is still relevant. -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

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Re: [Board] "Foundation" at squeak.org
by Bert Freudenberg 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

On 04.03.2009, at 05:56, Craig Latta wrote: > > Hi Yoshiki-- > > > In the side-bar of squeak.org, it still have a section called > > "Foundation" and the sub topic of it is "Board". Everybody agrees > > that these should be changed, right? It probably should be > > "Leadership Team" and "Members". What do you think? > > Yes. > > (At least until we change the name again. ;) Also, we should move everything from the squeakfoundation.org domain to squeak.org. Need to get the box admins involved for that (cc'ed). - Bert -

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Re: "Foundation" at squeak.org
by Janko Mivšek 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Yoshiki Ohshima pravi: > Hi Janko and everybody, > > There was a little discussion about the name of the group, and we > looked at places where the Leadership Group is still referenced to as > Foundation or board. > > In the side-bar of squeak.org, it still have a section called > "Foundation" and the sub topic of it is "Board". Everybody agrees > that these should be changed, right? It probably should be > "Leadership Team" and "Members". What do you think? > > -- Yoshiki I agree too, just that I was not sure so far that this rename is final. So now a name Leadership Team is final, no more confusion. About Foundation, does foundation still exist at all? If exist, shall it be represented on the site or just mentioned somewhere? So I propose next changes on http://www.squeak.org: 1. Foundation and Board removed 2. Leadership Team added to Community, so that section will look like: Community HowTo Organization Teams Leadership Team 3. Leadership Team added as one of teams on the Teams page Leadership team is here raised a bit above other teams because it is, well, a leadership. That's why it is important to be more visible among others. To put it even on the first level, well, if leadership name yourself as team, it should be closer to other teams .. :) But on the other side, if Leadership Team will produce some more information like meeting reports directly on the website, in that case it would be appropriate to put it higher, for easier access. Question remains only what to do with Foundation ... Best regards Janko

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Mac VM need update on squeak.org
by Raymond Asselin 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

I think there is a mess in Mac virtual machine version on squeak.org If you select <MacOSX (Universal)> from the download page 'Virtual Machine' you get a <Squeak 3.8.18beta1U.app> download. If you select <Mac>from the first page Latest Release: 3.10.2 you get a folder with <Squeak 3.8.18beta3U.app>. BUT a post from John McIntosh sent 19 january 2009 suggest that the 3.8.21beta1U be the production version: > Based on feedback I've promoted 3.8.21beta1U to production, it can be > found via links from > > http://smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html > > If someone can update ftp.squeak.org that would be helpful. > Because of the following issues anyone using 3.8.20beta1U should > upgrade. > > info.plist change: > > To turn on the mmap file mapping for the image loading, which can > improve startup times > alter the SqueakUseFileMappedMMAP setting to TRUE from the default > value of false. > > Note the risk of turning this one appears to affect image saving where > you experience: > > (a) lockups writing to images on NFS mounts > (b) occasionally an image save to the local hard disk can fail. As I don't have upload rights on ftp.squeak.org , may be somebody on the Web team may do the necesseray change, or grant me the right to do so. Raymond

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