Announcing to the world..
Doug Way
dway at riskmetrics.com
Tue Apr 17 23:20:06 UTC 2001
Tim Rowledge wrote:
>
> Although I sort of agree with most of Tom's suggestions, I don't really
> see us having only one chance at publicising Squeak.
I agree. I think this may be a good time for a "medium-sized" publicity push, but not a "huge" push. :)
It may be awhile before all of Tom's points are addressed, but Squeak does have a relatively new out-of-the-box look, and 3.0 is a nice round number which deserves some publicity, at least.
So I'd say let's go ahead with the medium-sized publicity push, including slashdot, etc.
> And I certainly
> don't see slashdot as particularly important; the average demonstrated
> IQ of the assorted respondents (based on the questions and their
> responses) can't be over 50.
>
> The Apple font problem can be solved; in fact it should be solved by
> some code Duane Maxwell contributed ages ago. Don't know where it is
> now.
It sounds like the Stable Squeak image (from the Squeak World Tour) has resolved the font licensing problem... it has some new, donated, license-clean fonts and none of the Apple/MS fonts. (At least this is what John Sarkela was telling everyone at Smalltalk Solutions, so I assume it's okay for me to repeat here. :) ) Stable Squeak also addresses some of Tom's other points... perhaps once it's out there, it may be the version which warrants a big publicity push.
- Doug Way
dway at riskmetrics.com
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