Could we fix the web site

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Sat Jan 6 21:07:33 UTC 2007


2007/1/6, J J <azreal1977 at hotmail.com>:
>
> Well what do other people do?  Haskell is pretty popular these days.  Here
> is their site:
> http://haskell.org

http://python.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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