Stef,

	ok you can have that attitude if you want but A) you're not getting
my point or B) you want to evade the point with the sarcasm.

	I think I didn't wrote that with that lack of clarity, did I?
Anyway.. suposing that is the case A what is going on here, let me say that
I wasn't talking about improvments in tools nor the environment. They are
what they are and I'm the first user/promotor of them. I was talking about
transmitting how is *the squeak experience of using them* to people.

	Also what happened to me does not matters at all here. In fact I had
great support if that is the case. What matters is that we can try to cover
the gap for the new ones. 

	So.. I only wanted to transmit the message that it seems to me that
lots of veteran squeakers here has very valuable experiences to write down
and publish and we can encourage them to take a few minutes and use texts
editors a little more in the benefit of all. 

	As writing books is a very challenging taks, I proposed something
much more feasible: blog articles. It even can help to make the public
understand the difficulties that developers suffers lots of times alone,
prevent useless criticism, etc. That would be friendly, cost modest efforts
make people more popular, do more debate gymnastics so promote better
Smalltalk, and in fact bright just because what they do or what they have
done.

	Is not about silly autopromotions, it's about sincere share of
experiences. The kind of sharing I'm talking about is the share that adults
can do preserving the very nature of the share that Mitchel Resink Scratch
BBC's news show to us all today. 

	cheers,

Sebastian Sastre
PS: Stef, also note that when a case B occurs in a situation like this, does
not matters why or by whom, it is acting like a knowledge barrier for
Smalltalk itself.

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] En 
> nombre de stephane ducasse
> Enviado el: Martes, 15 de Mayo de 2007 17:10
> Para: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Asunto: Re: Smoothing Squeak's usability barriers
> 
> sure
> we should change the menu items  and reevaluate our environment.
> :)
> Stef
> On 15 mai 07, at 17:30, Sebastian Sastre wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> >
> >     I been thinking about the value of blogs talking daily 
> Squeak use. 
> > Squeak users/developers probably use the squeak's environment in 
> > different ways according to what they do/develop. And because 
> > Smalltalk was designed with the extremely valuable feature 
> of making 
> > possible to be all inteligible for one individual, that sometimes 
> > could be a lonely task. That hasn't to be bad until the developer 
> > starts to loose valuable experiences because of that. For 
> instance, if 
> > you are in pair programming, one developer could learn 
> about a new way 
> > to find a method faster or a different class browser or a different 
> > subtle and clever way to use the browser, and so on...
> >
> >     That subtlelties that are easily transmitted person to 
> person so 
> > meetings, BOf's and educational experiences are great to 
> patch that, 
> > but what if your profile just don't have access to that at certain 
> > moment to any of those?
> >
> >     I think, (and I may be right or not in this) that there 
> are lots 
> > of people that fits in this profile at least for some time 
> and there 
> > is a gap on support to those people. The result of that gap 
> is clear, 
> > or the person surpass it by itself or not.
> >
> >     If is interesting to us that more persons can surpass 
> that gap and 
> > find the completeness of the squeak experience I think that 
> fact makes 
> > interesting to us to have vehicles (blogs are the more feasible I 
> > think) with articles that friendly introduces stories of 
> developments 
> > that in fact are merely excuses to comunicate tips that should be 
> > fulfilling the gap. Even when they may seem to be silly for more 
> > experienced developers.
> >
> >     I barely imagine a newbie's frustration to understand 
> the complete 
> > cycle experience of developing with squeak because it 
> happends to me 
> > the silly thing that I dicovered yesterday the preferences browser 
> > after some years of using squeak. Yes I know, I wasn't reading the 
> > menu and exploring that option by myself, but maybe that 
> shouldn't be 
> > the only access to that information and access to 
> information is what 
> > I'm talking about.
> >
> >     Maybe universities and schools that uses Squeak are 
> aware and have 
> > taken measures about this, but I wanted to put this here "just in 
> > case" and because I think that is valuable for squeak and the whole 
> > smalltalk comunity that we have more bolgs that concentrates the 
> > veteran squeakers virtual-environmental experiences that acts as 
> > welcome and friendly "doors" to the knowledge and people 
> can have an 
> > emotionally smoother experiences surpassing the squeak/ smalltalk 
> > experience gaps and knowledge barriers.
> >
> >     cheers,
> >
> > Sebastian Sastre
> >
> >
> 
>