building a Squeak CDrom

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Jan 16 13:03:59 UTC 2003


markus

I can give you my lectures on Squeak and OOP
http://scgwiki.iam.unibe.ch:8080/StephaneDucasseWiki

I think that it would be good to have a sponsors price: 50$
This way we could buy some copies here.

Stef


On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 10:04 AM, Marcus Denker wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm putting together a Squeak CDROM. This CD will be available
> as a free download (.iso image). And it will be possible to buy
> this starting at $10, worldwide shipping.
>
> We experimented with a combination of kagi.com (international
> Payment+Shop) and SwiftCD (CD Production / Shipping) for the
> ESUG Smalltalk CD. This turned out to work great, it's fully
> automatic and reasonably fast.
>
> See http://www.ira.uka.de/~marcus/EsugcD.html for more onfo
> on the ESUG CD, the KAGI Shop is at
> http://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=P2C&&
>
> For those interested, the costs for a CD are:
>
>    -> $1.75 Kagi.com  (transaction fee for $10)
>    -> $6.29 SwiftCD.com
>    -> $0.60 US or $1.60 europe+asia (shipping).
>      ----------------------
>       $8.64 - 9.64
>
> So we making a stunning profit of $0.36/$1.36 per CD sold. This
> money will go to Squeak Germany e.V.i.Gr., which is a german based
> non-profit association.
>
> So, the question is: What would you like to have on such a CD?
> For the first version, I plan to add:
>
>  -> The Squeak 3.2 directory of the FTP-Server (100MB)
>  -> Squeak 3.4gamma (10MB)
>  -> The Mailinglist Archives (180 MB)
>  -> Some Documentation (e.g. nuBlue PDFs) (30MB)
>  -> Squeakland Plugins (40MB)
>  -> Croquet0.1 (90MB)
>           ------------------------
>                   450MB
>
> anything else?
>
> Please send me a private Mail if you have an idea for other
> stuff to put on the CD.
>
> A later version of the CD should contain a complete mirror of
> SqueakMap, nicely installable from the SqueakMap-Browser. I need
> to look at SqueakMap how to do this...
>
> I plan to build the CD next weekend, so it should be available from
> SwiftCD starting next week.
>
>    Marcus
>
> -- 
> Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de  -- Squeak! http://squeak.de
>
>
Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
  "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
  different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
  might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes





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