Hi Steven

I was thinking about flash when reading your exciting email and I think 
that there is big niche there, (now I do not know what could be the 
business model) because a lot of people do not want to pay that much to 
be able to do animation or related.  Once I showed Squeak to a friend 
of mine
that have to release an interactive CD-rom for magazine everything 
month and he was really interested by Squeak. However, he is not a 
programmer but a graphic artist that domesticated computer quite well. 
And he told me that this was too bad that there would not be a 
application
to develop multimedia contents.  And I hope that this is what you are 
doing because people are
looking for solution. Squeak is full of potential while we also need 
realization and I hope that TK4
will be one of those.

Stef

PS: the point of the mail of marcus is still true. If one of your guys 
could allocate
one hour every three days to help the harvesting process you would gain 
and us too.
Because you would know the bug fixes and help having stable releases. 
We are doing that on our **free evenings, nights and holidays**.




On 28 juil. 04, at 01:13, Steven Riggins wrote:

> heh shows what I know.  I even made the book with those cheesy 
> Omnigraffle slides :)
>
> That text is part of proposal.  I think, when we're done, we're going 
> to have a really fun environment for authors (non-programmers) to be 
> introduced to Smalltalk and squeak.  It is kind of how a class I 
> helped teach iMovie went - We didn't teach people iMovie for a 
> weekend, we showed them how to shoot video, gave them scenes to shoot, 
> brought the video in and then had them edit their own stories, which 
> of course made them ask "How can I cut out this video..." and off they 
> went until 2:30am :)
>
> The power of Squeak et al, to an end user such as my mother, does not 
> lie at the System Browser, but at other tools that allow them to get 
> tasks done, like eToys.  Similar to seaside,  web surfers never see 
> smalltalk, it just works.  In our case, I want to be able to email my 
> mom a working widget game and have her drop it into her scrapbook of 
> stuff her son did.
>
> Power at all levels, when someone needs it.  We'll try and get a more 
> formal site up as we release code for people to play with.  Right now 
> we're in the mode of learning tweak, building use cases and executing 
> them and getting some issues like OS windows out of the way so we can 
> concentrate on the fun stuff :)
>
> Steve
>
>