Could we fix the web site
Todd Blanchard
tblanchard at mac.com
Sat Jan 6 20:40:51 UTC 2007
Actually - these are the guys to catch:
http://www.rubyonrails.org/
On Jan 6, 2007, at 12:21 PM, J J wrote:
>
> Well what do other people do? Haskell is pretty popular these
> days. Here is their site:
> http://haskell.org
>
>
>
>> From: Joshua Gargus <schwa at fastmail.us>
>> Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list<squeak-
>> dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list<squeak-
>> dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> Subject: Re: Could we fix the web site
>> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 12:00:05 -0800
>>
>> Stephane makes a good point. If we want http://squeak.org to be
>> the public face of Squeak to the outside world, then the news
>> feeds should absolutely not appear at the very top. Instead, the
>> Welcome! section should come first to give a basic understanding
>> of the entire site. That much is clear (right? if not, why?)
>>
>> We could then go on to debate some more ambiguous decisions. For
>> example, within the news section, I would put the squeak.org-
>> specific "Posted News" above the external "News Feeds". However,
>> I have other things to do this fine Saturday than to push hard on
>> that point, or similar ones.
>>
>> Happy weekend Squeaking,
>> Josh
>>
>>
>> On Jan 6, 2007, at 10:28 AM, stephane ducasse wrote:
>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>> really I'm quite annoyed. I cannot tell you all the story behind
>>> my mail but this is not a simple idiot remark.
>>> Can't we get the welcome paragraph in the first place?
>>> Should I really totally boycott Squeak?
>>> Don't you understand that we are in a world where people
>>> communicate and judge on form?
>>>
>>> News Feed as a title of the first item of the page that
>>> describes squeak is not a smart choice. For somehow not knowing
>>> at all
>>> what squeak is about and that does not really care about getting
>>> involved but just want to give a glance.
>>>
>>> Then there are 5 typos in the following text. So the fact that
>>> we do not control (or may be somebody edited the text and the
>>> list by hand)
>>> what is published there would push us to be cautious and not
>>> put it up front.
>>>
>>> "Croquet Edit and Create 3d Objects
>>> Howard Stearns reciently replyed to a question from Mathieu. I
>>> thought I’d reporduce his response here. Howard give a lot of
>>> very good information about Croquet support for third party
>>> tools...."
>>>
>>> So what I suggest is to swap the welcome and the news feeds. I
>>> think that this is important.
>>>
>>> Stef
>>>
>>> On 6 janv. 07, at 18:53, Karl wrote:
>>>
>>>> stephane ducasse wrote:
>>>>> Hi karl
>>>>>
>>>>> my point is about the place of the news on the web site. I
>>>>> think that we need something that anybody (and certainly someone
>>>>> evaluating me can understand). When people click on my cv on
>>>>> the squeak web site, it should be great.
>>>>> And the news section should not be the top items. Or I can
>>>>> remove all the links I have on my sites and cv to squeak.org
>>>>> but this
>>>>> would be sad because imagine a person not knowing anything
>>>>> about squeak going to the site and reading the first paragraph
>>>>> right now.
>>>> The first paragraph is about the OLPC which has Squeak as part
>>>> of it's software. I would consider that a very big news item.
>>>> The frontpage got very static and nobody updated it and nobody
>>>> wants to lead the web team so this was a good solution for us,
>>>> since a webpage that newer changes is a dead webpage, at least
>>>> in my book.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Stef
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> The news feed is from news.squeak.org so if you join the news
>>>>>> team you will be able to post directly.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do not want. I have nothing against news and I have nothing
>>>>> to say.
>>>> I find that hard to believe ;-)
>>>> Karl
>>>>>
>>>>>> Typos and other standards of posting to the news feed should
>>>>>> probably be addressed to the news team.
>>>>>> Karl
>>>>>>
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