Marcus Denker wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 10:10:59PM +1000, Peter Goodall wrote:
> > Maybe we could ask the squeakers if they would move their mailing
> > list into a newsgroup where the activity would be easily seen.
> >
> > The list is busy, and as a newsgroup it would help counter those that
> > say Smalltalk is evidently ailing by the low number of news posts.
> >
> 
> Please not! We discussed this *many* times in the past, we don't
> want a newsgroup.
> 
> The discussion was about visibility. The website looks dead, that's true.
> But usenet isn't the solution.
> 
> What about a slashdot-like news page. We could put up every little thingy
> that gets done (e.g. new snapshots that get posted, pointers to good
> articles on the Mailinglist, new goodies, ...).
> So everyone visiting squeak.org would at once could see that "lots of
> stuff is happening".
> 
> Who'd like to help setting something like that up?
> (It doesn't need to be in Squeak... zope/php would be fine. Göran, is
> squeakdot in a usable state?)
> 
I think the Squeak swiki show pretty well what's going on in the 
comunity. The Squeak.org pages could just redirect to the swiki.
Karl