FW: Time to make a Freshmeat kind of Squeak site ?

John Buffington jbuff at pacific.net
Tue May 2 22:33:32 UTC 2000


At 05:06 PM 5/2/00 -0400, you wrote:
> > I agree.  We actually have two contenders already for the site:
> >
> >       1. The Smalltalk archive at UIUC.
> >
> >       2. The Swiki
> >
> >
> > At this point, we are still lacking a critical mass of projects posted.
> > There aren't enough projects posted, that someone is likely to go
> > searching through either of the above sites for interesting Squeak code.
>
>It sounds like it needs to be a controlled site, where a group of editors
>maintain the site.  That way the editors could keep some type of coherent
>organization to the content.  People could continue to add to the Squeak
>Swiki and then lobby the editors to include it on the controlled site.
>
>Of course, then you have to decide on who gets to be an editor.  Maybe it
>could be a nomination and election process.
>
>There are two features we are about to add to Swiki.net that might help.
>The first is the ability to create a public read-only Swiki with a set of
>users authorized to make edits.  And, the second is the ability to mount the
>Swiki on any domain (simply point the DNS record to our server).  I'd be
>happy to assist anyone who would like to set it up (but I probably won't
>have much time to devote to actual content).
>
>- Stephen

I'll second that, and will be glad to contribute my swiki skills to the 
effort, but
am too much of a Squeak Newbie to actually be an editor.

--jbuff (http://echostar.swiki.net)





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